Computing

Is your diary a mess? You need to use Tungle to Untangle yourself

by Antony Bailey May 12, 2010

After long searching for a simple and cost effective (free) scheduling platform I have found Tungle after it was recommended by Luca Filigheddu in his recent post entitled Marketing Done Right: Tungle. Image by tvanhoosear via Flickr I had no idea that such a system truly existing until I decided to take his advice and [...]

home

I’ve said all along Flash Sucks!

by Antony Bailey April 30, 2010

It seems in the wake of a recent email from Steve Jobs. Many people have started saying that HTML 5 is the future and that Flash is obsolete. Image via Wikipedia I hate to say I told you so (lie), but I have been saying for years that Flash is totally unnecessary! I have made [...]

Simple MySQL Class in PHP

by Antony Bailey April 18, 2010

I constantly see people using multiple connections to a database, this is just slow and hard to read. Image via CrunchBase I’ve decided to give an overview of how to have a simple connection class, that you are free to use completely royalty free. The Connection var $db = array ( "db_user" => "database_user", "db_pass" [...]

o2 will be offering iPad tariffs

by Antony Bailey April 14, 2010

A few hours ago, mobile network o2 announced on twitter, that they will be providing dedicated tariffs for the iPad upon it’s release here in the UK. Are you going to get one? Do you think o2 is the right network after the problems with their data network from the iPhone? Go register your interest! [...]

Dropbox Is Brilliant! Here’s why you should join!

by Antony Bailey April 14, 2010

I have recently been refered to join Dropbox, a service I had never really paid much attention to. Something, I didn’t think I needed as I have several USB Mass Storage Devices (Flashdrive, Jumpdrive, Pendrive, whatever you call them this week). I also have removable hard drives, a NAS and Windows Server 2008 configured. Why [...]

Get Thesis Theme for WordPress for Free

by Antony Bailey April 11, 2010

If you’re here looking for a download link from the likes of rapidshare or megaupload, you’re going to be sadly disappointed. Instead, I’m going to teach you how you can get Thesis for WordPress completely free of charge with minimal effort. With the release of Thesis 1.7, there is a great deal of chatter about [...]

How to SEO your WordPress Blog The Easy Way

by Antony Bailey April 10, 2010

I’ve recently been doing a lot of Search Engine Optimisation work on my Blog, some of it you will see and some you will not. Hopefully, Google sees it all and brings you here. I can’t promise these techniques will work for you, but they do appear to work for me. I’m going to make [...]

home

Improve Adsense Section Targeting using Thesis Hooks

by Antony Bailey April 4, 2010

As you are already aware, Thesis is the most flexible WordPress theme framework. I will admit, I still have a long way to go. I was looking for a simple way to include the Google ad section code. If you’re wondering what Adsense Section Targeting is, you should read this article from Google. If you [...]

Blackberry Bold 9000 – OS 5.0.0.509 Leaked

by Antony Bailey February 26, 2010

BerryReview has posted OS 5.0.0.509 for both the Bold 9000 and Curve 8900. Unfortunately, as is so often the case with these things, they uploaded to rapidshare. This is fine if you have a premium account, which I do thanks for our friend Dan Briant. Without further delay, please download from one of my mirrors.

Google email to confirm they are phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6

by Antony Bailey February 2, 2010

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.