“Software” Category
| 30 Jul 2010 | July Link Dump Shirts, URLs, martial arts, cows and more. |
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| 26 Jul 2010 | A New Look for ZenMagick’s Site Redesign now live. |
| 13 May 2010 | Been-Too-Busy-To-Blog Link Dump Crap, colours, songs, Arnie, Jack and more. |
| 05 May 2010 | Flixel Feedback Mostly positive! |
| 07 Apr 2010 | Early April Link Dump Downloads, zombies, pub lunches, planes, envelopes and more. |
| 10 Mar 2010 | HTML As Native File Format For Word Processing I know I’d use it. |
| 25 Feb 2010 | February Link Dump Rabbits, video, magazines, uploads, hopping and more. |
| 28 Jan 2010 | Late January Link Dump Sci-fi, data, comics, robots, dinosaurs and more. |
| 25 Jan 2010 | A New Look for ZenMagick I made a logo and site template. |
| 18 Jan 2010 | Mid-January Link Dump Prisoners, music, transparency, newspapers and more. |
| 04 Nov 2009 | Early November Link Dump Killjoys, 3D, Drupal, SMS, toilet rolls and more. |
| 21 Oct 2009 | Mid-October Link Dump Mags, TV, video, fonts, zombies and more. |
| 06 Oct 2009 | Publishing To The iPhone With Flash CS5 Good news, but don’t get carried away. |
| 05 Oct 2009 | Early October Link Dump Trademarks, profanity, developers, canvas, malware, eels and more. |
| 02 Oct 2009 | The “Hello World” Of The ’80s As seen in all electrical shops. |
| 25 Sep 2009 | MAMP PRO An easy way to work locally on multiple sites. |
| 22 Sep 2009 | September Link Dump Demos, tech support, Welsh Jedi, IE6, dating and more. |
| 21 Sep 2009 | Retro Reunited 2009 This was the real Great North Run! |
| 27 Jul 2009 | July Link Dump Flashmobs, cruft, Busey, illusions, kludges and more. |
| 12 Jul 2009 | R.I.P. HomeSite Thanks for the years of faithful service. |
| 02 Jun 2009 | Early June Link Dump Movies, ads, spiders, accessibility, games and more. |
| 23 Feb 2009 | Games-Related Link Dump Warning: may harm productivity |
| 21 Feb 2009 | Never Trust Clients The unintentional generosity can be costly. |
| 26 Jan 2009 | Late January Link Dump Letters, titles, sins, layers and more. |
| 08 Jan 2009 | New Year Link Dump Graves, writing, 404, cars, sounds, cuteness and more. |
| 28 Oct 2008 | October Link Dump Games, fonts, Subversion, slices and more. |
| 14 Oct 2008 | A House of Cards The perils of dependencies. |
| 02 Oct 2008 | September Link Dump Typography, spiders, interviews, filters and more. |
| 11 Aug 2008 | Remaining Widgets The few things I actually use in Dashboard. |
| 18 Jun 2008 | VisualHub To The Rescue A cheap multi-format video encoder. |
| 14 May 2008 | Saving Memory on Media Temple’s (dv) Hosting Simple tweaks, big gains. |
| 11 May 2008 | Wii Fit First Impressions Yeah, it does make you feel silly. |
| 20 Feb 2008 | Using the Vista Fonts Without Vista Install them in XP for free. |
| 10 Feb 2008 | Mid-February Link Dump Bear, livestock, dog, pony, lemurs and more. |
| 14 Jan 2008 | Get The Wii Internet Channel For Free It’s a bit of a faff. |
| 12 Nov 2007 | Mid-November Link Dump Science, vectors, cows, animation, poultry, comics and more. |
| 18 Oct 2007 | Mid-October Link Dump Animation, exploits, Morse, Ajax, SEO, games, amputation and beans. |
| 21 Sep 2007 | Mid-September Link Dump Karma, fish, evil, dinosaurs, bugs and more. |
| 30 Aug 2007 | August Link Dump Video, newspapers, marketing, ideas, bubbles and more. |
| 06 Aug 2007 | Flash Enhancements 11 ways to use it to extend the browser. |
| 28 Jul 2007 | Mac Backups With Mozy Protecting data from fire and burglars. |
| 20 Jul 2007 | Scanning Sanity Getting it working when Canon can’t. |
| 18 Jul 2007 | Mid-July Link Dump Disaster recovery, games, PHP, video, messaging and domain names. |
| 11 Jul 2007 | Project/Account Management For Dummies Repeat after me… |
| 04 Jul 2007 | The Uncomfortable Truth About PHP PHP6 isn’t necessarily the best successor to PHP5. |
| 23 Jun 2007 | Switch to Fast User Switching No more disputes over that LOLcat wallpaper. |
| 07 Jun 2007 | “I have new mail…?” How to get at messages lurking within OS X. |
| 04 Jun 2007 | Browsing By Ear A video introduction to screen reading technology. |
| 18 May 2007 | In a Zen State Just a brief e-commerce grumble. |
| 27 Apr 2007 | April Link Dump GIFs, colours, templates, demos, clients, CSS, frameworks and maths. |
| 14 Apr 2007 | A Framework For Discussion (Of Frameworks) Acknowledging the difference between applications and sites. |
| 30 Mar 2007 | March Link Dump Lisa, fluid, stats, Python, brushes, Wii and time off. |
| 26 Mar 2007 | Typing Curly Quotes, Accents, etc. In OS X Put that Option/alt/funny-symbol key to good use. |
| 12 Mar 2007 | Unicode-friendly PHP and MySQL Getting web applications to think in UTF-8. |
| 28 Feb 2007 | February Link Dump Torquay, Robocop, idents, flowers and more. |
| 26 Feb 2007 | Duck! Aquatic avians invading OS X. |
| 22 Feb 2007 | PaperVision3D’s Flashy Origami Chucking polygons around with ActionScript. |
| 24 Jan 2007 | Book Review: Building Scalable Web Sites Sound advice from Flickr’s architect. |
| 16 Jan 2007 | Mid-January Link Dump A new miscellany for the new year. |
| 12 Jan 2007 | Microsoft Kills Off CSS In Emails A backwards step for developers and email marketers. |
| 10 Jan 2007 | iWant1 Yeah, yeah, I’m going on about the iPhone too. |
| 28 Nov 2006 | November Link Dump Chicks, nukes, prime numbers and more. |
| 07 Nov 2006 | Spyware? Yahoo! Oops. |
| 02 Nov 2006 | Halloween.app Even text editing software can offend people. |
| 31 Oct 2006 | Top Ten Timewasting Techniques How to avoid getting things done. |
| 23 Oct 2006 | Password Shouting A nifty feature for CAPS LOCK USERS. |
| 11 Oct 2006 | Mid-October Link Dump Miscellaneous URLs that were lying around. |
| 04 Oct 2006 | Odd One Out “One of these things is not like the others…” |
| 09 Sep 2006 | Sweet Test Suite Running OS X and Windows in parallel in Parallels. |
| 04 Sep 2006 | Securing OS X’s Personal Web Sharing Keep prying eyes away from work in progress. |
| 18 Aug 2006 | Setting Up Apache, PHP, MySQL, .htaccess and mod_rewrite in OS X I think the title says more than enough. |
| 17 Aug 2006 | Development Developments I’ve switched, but I promise not to be a smug fanboy. |
| 10 Aug 2006 | Childish Games Do geeky kids still get into programming? |
| 07 Aug 2006 | A-Week-Into-August Link Dump A catchily-titled miscellany of web delights. |
| 16 Jul 2006 | Optimising Email The neverending quest to make it flexible and reliable. |
| 24 Jun 2006 | WordPress and Yahoo! Hosting Gripes Warnings for fellow web developers. |
| 04 Jun 2006 | May Link Dump E-commerce, RSI, bogroll, generators, demons and scripts. |
| 23 May 2006 | Headdress for OS X Simplified Apache configuration for web developers. |
| 06 May 2006 | Comic Life: A Micro-Review Another slick little bit of OS X software. |
| 02 Apr 2006 | March Link Dump A month’s worth of bits’n’pieces. |
| 27 Mar 2006 | Freshly Squeezed Documents File Juicer for Mac OS X. |
| 16 Mar 2006 | Preventing Prefetching Putting greedy browsers on a bit of a diet. |
| 10 Mar 2006 | Keeping Flash Active Internet Explorer update forces changes to sites. |
| 25 Jan 2006 | Opera Mini (Operetta?) A nifty free web browser for your mobile. |
| 09 Nov 2005 | Splog Generator TV theme lyrics should be used for good, not evil |
| 18 Oct 2005 | Mid-October Link Dump Quickly rustled up from miscellaneous leftovers. |
| 16 Oct 2005 | Minimal Navigation From Apple No clutter of buttons on their remote control. |
| 27 Sep 2005 | Software Development Myths A few misconceptions about programming. |
| 08 Sep 2005 | Even Fewer Popups with Firefox How to close a popups-from-plugins loophole. |
| 07 Sep 2005 | Rubbish ROKR, Nifty nano? Apple both delights and underwhelms. |
| 04 Sep 2005 | Finishing Touches: Useful URLs The address bar is part of your site’s interface. |
| 30 Aug 2005 | Download This Weblog Entry for $2.99 The healthy market for ‘casual games’ and digital content. |
| 29 Aug 2005 | Coding Isn’t Important What makes a good developer? |
| 21 Aug 2005 | August Link Dump A clear-out featuring toast, games and more. |
| 12 Aug 2005 | Flashy Flash 8 New toys to play with from Macromedia. |
| 07 Aug 2005 | They Know Where You Browse Browsers expose more data than you might realise. |
| 28 Jul 2005 | Yahooulator! Yidgets Yahoo! sneaks onto the desktop with Konfabulator. |
| 21 Jul 2005 | Scratch’n’Save Sounds and images can outlive their sources. |
| 18 Jul 2005 | “RAD Framework, Dude!” Ruby has been on Rails for a while; now Python has Django. |
| 14 Jul 2005 | Dog-and-Bone-over-IP Indulge your multinational pretensions with SkypeIn. |
| 30 Jun 2005 | Indie Racing Online gaming changes everything for independent developers. |
| 29 Jun 2005 | iTunes Pushes Podcasting, Flirts With Phones Apple takes podcasts mainstream. ‘iPhone’ imminent? |
| 04 Jun 2005 | More XML Goodness from Google and Microsoft Google Sitemaps and Microsoft Office Open XML Formats. |
| 29 May 2005 | Where the Web Went Right Ted Nelson v Tim Berners-Lee? The web wins by default. |
| 22 May 2005 | Google Web Accelerator Aftermath Lessons learned from the publicised problems. |
| 18 May 2005 | “Make clips of yourselves… and each other” Yep, it’s another quoteplay mention. |
| 13 May 2005 | OSXford English Dictionary Some surprising omissions and puerile inclusions. |
| 12 May 2005 | No Feline Wordplay Headlines Here OS X Tiger is pretty good. |
| 09 May 2005 | Podcasting Miscellany A collection of notes about the new medium. |
| 30 Apr 2005 | Safari So Goody (Sorry…) First to pass Acid2; Internet Explorer still struggling with Acid0.0001 . |
| 23 Apr 2005 | Using Flash’s Local Shared Objects for Good, Not Evil Add nifty features with Flash’s answer to cookies. |
| 07 Apr 2005 | quoteplay Update Imminent improvements, and an interesting alternative approach. |
| 01 Apr 2005 | Tinned Meat from WordPress Search engine spamming’s bad, no matter who’s doing it. |
| 28 Mar 2005 | Time-Wasting Time Changing clocks twice a year seems a bit odd. |
| 27 Mar 2005 | Easter Eggs Sorry, no chocolate. You know it’s bad for you. |
| 22 Mar 2005 | March Link Dump A quick clear-out of this month’s notes. |
| 14 Mar 2005 | Validate While You Browse Handy Firefox extension for developers. |
| 10 Mar 2005 | Yahoo Marketing Iffy toolbar bundling by Adobe and Macromedia. |
| 08 Mar 2005 | Dog-eared Bookmarks Have bookmarks/favorites become irrelevant? |
| 02 Mar 2005 | The Knowledge of All Font Simple freeware for managing typefaces. |
| 17 Feb 2005 | Quick Reviews: iPod shuffle, iLife, and iWork Playing with more products from Apple. |
| 05 Feb 2005 | Link to Audio Excerpts With ‘quoteplay’ Podcast content can be opened up to deep-linking. |
| 12 Jan 2005 | iShopping A people-watching visit to London’s Apple Store. |
| 08 Jan 2005 | Decentralise Is Macromedia Central going anywhere? |
| 06 Jan 2005 | Anti-Spyware Validationware Beta release accompanied by Windows validation scheme. |
| 11 Dec 2004 | Manufacturing Widgets Building mini-applications for Dashboard and Konfabulator. |
| 10 Dec 2004 | Flash Resurrection Macromedia’s Flash for ’phones brings an old adversary back to life. |
| 03 Dec 2004 | Symbian Light Create a rather feeble portable illumination device. |
| 02 Dec 2004 | Bryce 4 Free 3D landscape rendering package on magazine cover disc. |
| 30 Nov 2004 | Sorry Walkman Yet another music player lamb to the iPod slaughter? |
| 21 Nov 2004 | Viral Advertising Third-party ad server adds malicious code to The Register. |
| 18 Nov 2004 | OS X 10.3.6: Killer App Apple temporarily downgrades Powerbook to deluxe aluminium doorstop. |
| 17 Nov 2004 | Suffering for Their Arts The controversy over working hours in the games industry. |
| 15 Nov 2004 | “Are We Nearly There Yet?” A minor Firefox usability grumble. |
| 14 Nov 2004 | The Phony Browser/Search/OS War A crucial countdown for Mozilla, Google and Apple. |
| 11 Nov 2004 | Alpha Pint A possible brainwave for pubs? OK, perhaps not. |
| 10 Nov 2004 | Free Graphics Software A few vector and bitmap freebies. |
| 08 Nov 2004 | Building Bridges Civil engineering has never been so much fun. |