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Textpattern Technorati Linkback Tutorial
22 January 2007
Read moreI fell across this article describing how Drew McLellan implemented the Technorati Link Count Widget onto his textpattern blog. I’d like to do this some day (not that I get a great deal of traffic, particularly not technorati traffic) but if it starts to appear in my stats then …
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URLs that suck
18 January 2007
Read moreOver at the Well Designed URLs Blog they’ve started a movement to tag all urls-that-suck on del.icio.us and they will later rank the top ten sites with utterly rubbish URLs. I think this is a great idea and will be adding my own as I come across …
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USB drive letter under Windows XP
15 January 2007
Read moreI have to look this up every time I do it so here’s a fast tutorial on changing the letter for a USB storage device under Windows XP. I’m using this for my newly-flashed iriver that I told you about recently.
Go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer …
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Wouldn't It Be Cool If ...
11 January 2007
Read moreAs a geek, I sometimes create websites for other people or organisations who don’t have the technical skills to create them themselves. Tonight I’m meeting with the Netball Club Committee (well they are meeting and I am gatecrashing) to discuss whether a website would be useful for them …
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Gadget Update
10 January 2007
Read moreAfter I wrote about the death of a gadget, I decided that I would definitely just go out and buy something which would make music, to use in the car and at the gym, which wouldn’t matter if it died too. So I got one of these logik orbit …
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Joomla! greetings
04 January 2007
Read moreNext week I’ve been asked to go to the netball club committee meeting and tell them a bit about what a website is and whether I should be making them one. In order to get my brain in gear I’ve been thinking about tools that would be suitable …
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Google Blogsearch
04 January 2007
Read moreThis is a nice little tool that I use a lot, especially when I only want to see stuff posted by real people or posted in a given timescale: blogsearch.google.com.
A search on Zelda got me (via a couple of links), to this zelda name generator. I love …
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The First in Line
11 December 2006
Read moreIn the wider world of software development, supporting software is seen as the lowest form of employment in that field. I have to say that I totally disagree, working as a support developer needs quick thinking and expertise on every subject that might come up plus a whole raft of …
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Death of a Gadget
25 November 2006
Read moreI commented on an article about music player technology, saying how much I liked my Packard Bell AudioKey and how simple it was.
Well its died, and the search is on for a replacement (no I can’t wait for Christmas!), So far I’m interested in the iriver players …
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Intended use of HTTP POST
03 November 2006
Read moreI read this article from Elliotte Rusty Harold yesterday, and its kind of stuck in my mind [1]. He writes about what the different types of HTTP requests were actually intended for; the difference between the verbs GET and POST. His point is that to view information, GET should be …
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Super Dooper Opera Search Feature
01 November 2006
Read moreOpera has sneaked in a fabulous new search feature – and I missed it completely! In looking up how to set up some shortcut searches, I stumbled across this and thought I’d share.
Opera 9 (and I think earlier versions) comes with a preconfigured search function, where you type the …
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PuTTY from command-line
01 November 2006
Read moreFollowing my brush with RSI, I’ve become very mouse-averse, which is difficult on a windows computer! There are a couple of shortcuts that I use to launch programs, mostly revolving around use of the Start->Run dialog (press Windows and R and it just pops up).
PuTTY can have …