Archives for “Recommendations”

Star city

There’s a great little exhibition on at Nottingham Contemporary called Star City; the future under communism. Loved the Soviet graphics and space paraphernalia. The sculpture with old electrics, sparks and a pool of water makes you feel very uneasy but the star of the show has to be giant spaceman you can walk inside Posted [...]


Wordle – cool text visuals

This site is so cool. Here’s my delicious bookmarks converted in to Wordle vision.


Delicious.com tag tidying

The tags in my bookmarks have become a bit of a mess over time even though I tried using tag bundles. It seems I’m not the only one to experience this problem: Tips for Tidying Tags Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags? Both these articles point to cocoalicious which is a Mac only tool – does a [...]


Home tech upgrade (part 2)

Finally, I couldn’t resist the Denon DM35 DAB but got some snazzy Denon SCF102 Speakers In Black which are the next level from the SCM73′s that get a mixed rating


Parents and Web2.0

II’m impressed, my Dad’s got an account on on flickr and uploading his snaps…


Home tech upgrade (part 1)

TV – decided on a Panasonic TX-26LMD70 – 26″ Widescreen – only £430 at Curry’s online. This is great TV, I can highly recommend it for colour, features, ease of use. Its also time to look at the hi-fi; hard to part with my Technics separates as they’ve served my well, but its just to [...]


Free Feedburner feeds

Cool service, owned by Google. Allows you to merge your blog posts with delicious bookmarks in a single feed.


Email marketing tool

During my search for ways to send bulk email effectively I came across a company Mailchimp that have an online email marketing product, which is so simple it gives you that “why didn’t I think of that?” feeling. They have provided the design guidelines which are to help you avoid the dreaded spam filters and [...]


If you’re a developer or tester, you simply need to get the Firebug add-on. I’ve lost track of the amount of times its helped me but the latest time was testing some Flash content that was developed by a design agency. The agency used swfObject to do the Flash detection and setting variables and was [...]


My Superdrive broke

After a couple of years of light use, the Superdrive in my iMac G5 broke. Just started spitting disks out. To be honest, it was never the fastest or most reliable of drives but convenient nonetheless. So I spoke to the local Apple centre who told me they (nor official Apple stores) sold replacement parts! [...]