Redlands Flood Map
For all those in the Redlands like me, trying to get hold of a flood map. I’m struggling getting them off the council as the file is very large and their servers struggling. Click here for a copy I put...
View ArticleBlackberry Playbook Review
I saw the Blackberry Playbook yesterday. In case you don’t know this is their tablet competition for the iPad. It’s quite a bit smaller than an iPad with a 7 inch screen and large bezel, so it is a bit...
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iOS4.3 Home Sharing – How To
I have just updated my iPhone to iOS4.3 and was excited to try out Home Sharing, but it wasn’t as straightforward as I thought it might be. I had thought that you would send it from iTunes on your...
View ArticleFirebarriers.co, Fire Barrier Domain Name as Good as .com?
Fire barriers are a a piece of material that you use to protect areas of your home from fire. Its a competitive market in some areas and a company I have been working for was looking to move their site...
View ArticleSpry Collapsible Panels to jQuery
Moving Spry Collapsible Panels over to jQuery is actually a lot easier than I thought it would be. Just to give you a bit of background, Spry is a javascript library that comes with Dreamweaver. They...
View ArticleWordPress on Crazydomains
Installing WordPress on Crazydomains hosting drives me nuts!!! I always forget how to install it, as to say that it’s not the most obvious installation method is probably the understatement of the...
View ArticleIs Google Sidelining Analytics?
With new tracking rules coming in from both Europe and I’m sure the rest of the world and modern browsers including a “do not track” feature it must be hard for Google to see a future for Analytics....
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Jackson USB power/charger – iPad beeping
I recently bought a Jackson USB power /charger and have just been charging my son’s and his friends ipad in the USBs. The iPads started beeping about every second after half an hour or so. After a lot...
View ArticleSociable Widget in WordPress
I use the Sociable plugin on a couple of the blogs I look after and was surprised to see that there is no sidebar widget. That means that if you want to add social icons to your home page and that...
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Bauhn / Aldi Hard Drive Docking Station Review
I bought one of these a few months ago, but they seem to repeatedly come up when Aldi’s are doing a tech special week. The only thing I can say is DO NOT BUY! They have a fundamental problem in that...
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Fixing a MacBook Pro with Liquid on the Keyboard
I had the misfortune the other day of spilling Ribena on the keyboard of my MacBook Pro. A short while later I got the sad Mac icon and it refused to boot up properly. I thought I would write down...
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Slidedeck: How to Add Individual Slidedecks to page headers
If you are like me, you love Slidedeck (http://www.slidedeck.com) for the ease of use for me and my clients when I have handed over the site. Typically I use Slidedeck for what is known as a hero...
View ArticleAldi Mobile – Review
I have been a big supporter of Aldi Mobile and have recommended it to many people. The service is Telstra 3G, so as long as you haven’t got a need for 4G support it seems to offer great value for...
View ArticleAdding a Default Category to a WordPress Custom Post
I have been searching for a way to add a default category into a WordPress Custom Post and finally got to a method that seemed to work for me. The explanation I came across was a bit vague so I thought...
View ArticleWordPress Redirect to Mobile Site
In a very short time Google will start to emphasize sites that are specifically designed to be viewed on mobile. In many cases that will be by the inclusion of a mobile style sheet, so that the user...
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Analytics Content Grouping Using WordPress Categories and Not using Googles...
Analytics Content Grouping can be very useful to see how a range of products is doing in the market in a quick and intuitive way and also allows for some interesting insights that are hard to get to in...
View ArticleRetrieve REST Posts for Specific Pages
After a lot of research I have finally found a way to retrieve specific pages from a WordPress REST site using it’s JSON feed. I should note that this is not complicated at all, just frustratingly...
View ArticlejQuery to Add Content to a Column with Header Copy
I have recently had to use jQuery to add some copy to a column in a table. The problem I had was identifying which column. In my case the each column had it’s own class eg: – <thead> <tr>...
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