Free online photoshop alternative

February 5, 2010
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Just a quick one guys; If you need photoshop but don’t have it installed on your local machine try PIXLR. It’s an online replacement to photoshop if you don’t have it to hand. It’s not as good as photoshop (but what is, hey?) but it is handy to know.
Tell me what you think, and [...]

Attacks on Google exploited Internet Explorer

January 17, 2010
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It has emerged this week that the attacks on Chinese human rights activists were made from, yes you guessed it, Internet Explorer. Microsoft’s director of Security was quoted earlier this week saying that the attacks were “targeted and limited” and were mainly “exploiting Internet Explorer 6″. Similarly, McAfee stated that the weeks attacks “showed a [...]

Yelp! For iPhone

January 10, 2010
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I’ve just downloaded ‘Yelp!’ for the iPhone, a simple app which let’s you search the local (and not so local) directories for business’ and people.
I’m currently sitting in costa coffee, writing this on my phone. I searched for nearby coffee shops and costa came up as 0.0miles away, with a photo, contact details and reviews. [...]

Amazon DRM free music downloads

January 8, 2010
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So, as you may or may not know, iTunes let you download songs for a pretty good price. However I can recall spending hours searching through tracks borrowed from a uni friend to find the tracks with ‘Digital Rights Management’ (DRM) stamps! These ‘tags’ mean that the track can only be played on certain devices [...]

New Website now in testing

December 19, 2009
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So the new site is finally up and running. It’s already been optimized for IE and Firefox, but the menu is still causing problems on certain browser versions.
Please fill in the poll, it only takes two clicks and will help me loads! Feel free to comment too if you have time! I can add [...]

Automatic Photo Uploads!

December 11, 2009
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I was watching ‘The Gadget Show’ last night, and a particular gadget took my eye. It’s the Eye-Fi. A wireless SD card which automatically uploads any photos on it to either a PC or the internet (such as TweetPic or Flickr).
It’s a great idea – with one minor issue: Naughty photos (such as drunk office [...]

Google Wave and Twitter Marketing!

December 8, 2009
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I recently read the blog ‘Is Twitter The Main Force Behind The Wave?‘, which was wrote by Alex Sleat (a personal friend of mine) and discussed the use of Twitter to not only market Google Wave but also spread invites. In response, here are my thoughts on the first three points raised in his article, [...]

Google XML-Sitemap ‘www.’ Prefix error!

December 3, 2009
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I have had the ‘Google XML-Sitemap’ plug-in for Wordpress installed for a time now, and everything was working perfectly.
However, after the plug-in was updated some time last week it started showing errors in Google’s Webmaster Tools. The error was the following.
“Paths don’t match we’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that [...]

Google Developments!

December 2, 2009
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Google have recently announced some new features, demonstrating again its dominance over the World Wide Web!
Google’s latest feature is the integration of ‘real-time result’s (RTR’s) including Twitter, Facebook and Myspace updates to be shown for relevant search results. Although the feature is currently limited to a minority of key words it will be built upon [...]

60secondshout: The meaning behind the tag

December 1, 2009
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#60SecondShout (or #60SS) is a trending topic (established via Twitter), which I designed to summarise lots of my smaller blogs – Those that can be read in less than 60 seconds!
I wanted to produce a type of blog which fell in between a micro-blog (140 characters) and some of my more heavy weight blogs (140 [...]