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iPhone for Business Challenge - Can the iPhone be used to completely run a mobile or web based business?


Right now there is alot of intellectual and creative capital being invested into the iPhone as a new platform for delivering content and services. As of this moment, a million ideas are slowly brewing in the minds of futurists, technologists and developers all around the world.
Apple’s App Store is going to change everything…
With the [...]

Using Microsoft Word to Send Blog Posts


Hi!

I just discovered by accident that word can send blog items to wordpress!

Just trying it now.

Free OS X screen ruler


Hey,
Just found this neat OS X screen ruler.
I got tired of doing a screen capture, loading it into photoshop and measuring using info from there.
This makes it all so easy, and best of all its free!
http://www.pascal.com/software/freeruler/

Technorati Tags: Apple, design, OS X, ruler, screen

Wordpress 2.5 now supported by Fantastico


Imagine my delight when on adding a hosting account for a friend that Wordpress 2.5 was available!
So with much delight I set to and upgraded all three of my own Blogs in about 3 minutes flat.
So easy to do.
The alternative was to hard to even consider… Spending the night backing up and ftping all the [...]

YAML and Suckerfish drop down menus can work together!


After a fair bit of gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair, I have managed to get Suckerfish drop down menus and yaml.de working together. Add in a dash of jquery, care of Myles Angell and we have magic!
I will make the css a little more analogous to the wider yaml community so it will [...]

Testing an Apache mod-rewite rule for anti leaching


This image should be a sunset, but a neat anti-leaching measure will replace your stolen images on another site with a replacement image.
This is the tutorial I used:
http://websiteowner.info/tutorials/server/bandwidththeft.asp
Alot of bandwidth gets stolen when people link to your images from their website on your hosting account.
If you follow the tutorial carefully, this will be a thing [...]

Ruby on Rails


Just started learning to program in Ruby on Rails.
What is it?
The Ruby part is an easy to understand runtime compiled object orientated programming language.
Using plain language, Ruby allows novices to get started alot quicker than other pre-compiled languages like Java and C.
What about Rails?
For web developers / designers, Rails is where all the action is.
It’s [...]

iPhone!


Apple just announced the iPhone
The whole incredible deal on Engadget!

Voip - added a Digium TDM400


We just added a Digium TDM400P with three FXO ports into our voice server at our Crown Court location at Generation Church.
This has a number of ramifications:

Not paying for call forwards to our VOIP provider
Our three copper lines hook straight into our virtual voice infrastructure - all lines are available at both locations
Phones still work [...]

New Years resolution 2007


“Do more, say less”
- Matthew Sweet, Jan 2007