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Alone in the Wild

After the past few hectic weeks at work, the idea of being Alone in the wild  sounds more than just a wild adventure, it sounds like a dream holiday. Still, after watching documentary film maker and adventurer Ed Wardle battle it out in the Yukon territory of North West Canada, I would probably opt for [...]

fotally sublimed?

So yeah, I have a flickr account and not so long back I upgraded to Pro. There’re not many benefits to going Pro but a few notable ones are that a) you get some basic stats, and b) you get access to all your photos (more photos viewable in your ’stream’ and you get access [...]

Word to the Wise

One morning last week as I was drinking my coffee before leaving for work, I was checking my online ’stuff’ and I suddenly realised one of my sites, shantaram-forum.com was down. Not only that, but the domain was ‘parked’ at some spammy-looking page. Apart from reeling in the immediate terror that shook through my mind, [...]

I live in fear of list-posts

I don’t really, but one has to ask the question as to what value list-posts really have, except for regurgitated stuff to pimp your blog with?
It’s simple really. A list post is useful if it contains new information, or information presented in a helpful bullet-point list. Now, I’m not judging anyone who chooses to write [...]

Cooliris – View the web a different way

I’ve just picked up the scent of a really cool looking browser add on that pulls web content from pages into a neat coverflow style visual interface. At present, it only works with non-beta versions of Safari, Firefox and Explorer.
You can use it on supported sites only, but with the list growing by day [...]

Kinetic Typography

Kinetic typography. What is that? Well if you go by the videos I found on youtube sporting that description then it basically means: “taking cool quotes from movies and animating the text over them”
Here’s a list of my favorite ones. Viewer discretion is advised, as these movie quotes are peppered handsomely with colourful language (as [...]

GridFox – Handy designer’s tool!

This is a follow-up post of sorts on yesterday’s meander about this new design. While I was smashing out the code for it, I thought how cool would it be to be able to overlay a grid easily just to visually tweak a grid here and there. In fact, even though the original HTML and [...]

SitePoint Reference & Opera Panels

SitePoint recently launched a bunch of cool stuff for would-be IE8 users, utilising the new Web Slices and Accelerators to create a nice cool way for those users to access SitePoint pages and specifically the cool SitePoint HTML & CSS Reference site.
I’m going to show what I do in Opera that is kinda similar to [...]

first steps into HDR photography

Well, I may have missed my santa list, but next year I’m going to pick up a few pieces of kit to help me out with my photography.
Having just started to play around with HDR, I realise i’m going to need a tripod..and a cable release. Plus I’ll probably grab a copy of the Photomatrix [...]

The Mystic Technique of Segovia

“It [the electric guitar] is an abomination”

A famous quote once supposedly to have been said by Andrés Segovia. It probably wasn’t clear to Segovia back when he said it, that the Electric Guitar would become a proven musical force. But if we return to his word, abomination, then let me tell you one thing. [...]