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I?ve found the ?exact center of the internet?
2008-05-28 23:15:00 Today I reinstalled the Stumbleupon toolbar which I got rid of last time because I sort of got a bit addicted to it. But today I went back and started clicking that Stumble button once again. Anyway, I came across some pretty funny sites but one stood out, the owner claims that he has found the ... More About: Internet , Center , The Internet
traffurl.ru - My wordpress blog/site has been hacked
2008-05-14 21:23:00 Lately I have noticed a lot of my blogs and php sites keep getting hacked and when they are loaded they start downloading data from the URL traffurl.ru. If you are having similar problems change all of your passwords, this includes you hosting account password, wordpress login password and FTP access passwords. This will go someway ... More About: Wordpress , Security , Blog , Site , Hacked
Dell?s Eco Computer
2008-04-23 14:02:00 At this years Fortune Green conference, Dell showed off their new eco-inspired computer. The computer, according to Dell, is around 80% smaller than a normal desktop PC and it uses 70% less power. It is made out of recycled materials and is finished with a bamboo casing. The product is expected to come out later this ... More About: Hardware , Design , Computer
Are you addicted to Facebook?
2008-04-22 16:31:00 How addicted are you? I personally tend to look at Facebook a couple of times a day but as a report carried out by Sophos suggests, far too many people spend far to long on one of the biggest social networking sites in the world. Facebook has more than 70 million active users and is the ... More About: Internet , Social Networks , Addicted
Freebies for web designers
2008-04-21 17:52:00 As a web designer I am always happy when I come across icons, stock photography, fonts etc. that I can use for free on my websites, it cuts out a lot of work for me and makes my templates or client websites look a lot better. Below is a list of my top freebies, these include ... More About: Internet , Design , Freebies , Blogging , Designers
4 RSS feed icons in The Gimp
2008-04-21 17:49:00 I have put together 4 tutorials to show how to create RSS feeds with the Gimp , these are the end results: The tutorials can be found on my design and programming tutorial blog, Help Developer: Tutorial 1: http://help-developer.com/index.php/2008/ 04/12/create-an-rss-feed-iconbutton/ Tutorial 2: http://help-developer.com/index.php/2008/ 04/12/create-an-rss-feed-iconbutton-part- 2/ Tutorial 3: http://help-developer.com/index.php/2008/ 04/14/create-an-rss-feed-iconbutton-part- 3/ Tutorial 4: http://help-developer.com/index.php/2008/ 04/14/create-an-rss-feed-iconbutton-part- 4/ More About: Internet , Design , Icons , Feed
The overcrowded internet
2008-04-20 23:07:00 Have you ever thought up of an idea for a site and think, wow this has never been done before that I know of and then suddenly found that actually it has been done, not once but over and over and over again. Some days I wish that I could go back to the start of ... More About: Google , Internet , Digg
Web Designers going broke on forums like DigitalPoint
2007-12-18 09:15:00 I am a freelance web designer and have been for some 6 months now and for a while I was doing very well, boy there were some days when I was making upwards of $300 (£150) just from a couple of templates, but for the past month or so the only money I have been ... More About: Wordpress , Design , Make Money Online , Forums , Designers
I?m back
2007-11-21 01:32:00 Hello fellow blog readers, okay I’ve probably lost most of my readers because I haven’t updated this for a very long time, sorry about that. A lot has happened. I am now at the University of Huddersfield doing a BSc Honours degree in Software Development most of which I enjoy, it has its boring areas but ... More About: Blogging , Back
Laptop can?t be fixed because it has Linux
2007-09-12 23:45:00 What angers me more than anything is that people who don’t even understand the basics of Linux just give up before even trying. In the case study below someone purchases a laptop at the dreaded PC World here in the UK and then takes it back to get fixed because there is a crack on ... More About: Hardware , Laptop , Fixed
Microsoft offering Office 2007 for 90% of the retail price
2007-09-12 23:28:00 About 6 months ago in Australia, Microsoft released a program called “It’s not cheating” which was aimed at stopping student pirating their software. Well obviously it has been a success because Microsoft have announced that they will be releasing similar programs in the UK, US, Italy, France and Spain where they will offer Office 2007 ... More About: Software , Retail , Price
Design a web 2.0 website header in Gimp
2007-09-11 20:01:00 Designing websites is easy in Gimp , but in this tutorial I am going to show you how to create a web 2.0 style website header that will end up like this: Click for full size image Open Gimp and create a new canvas with a width of 860px and a height of 140px Go to the main Gimp ... More About: Design , Website , Header
Seamless Integration comes to Virtual Box
2007-09-09 00:17:00 I recently converted from using Windows to start using Ubuntu Linux , but as a programmer and web designer I realised the need to have access to Windows, so I installed Virtual Box, it meant that I could run Windows XP in a window in Linux but it meant each time that I had to dedicate ... More About: Integration
Create a PHP contact form
2007-09-08 23:55:00 When you go to most websites you will most likely see a contact form on their contact page. Why? Well, it is a) easier for the user, just fill in a few details and click Submit and its done and b) because it masks the email address so that visitors cannot see the address which ... More About: Tutorial , Contact , Form , Create
Help-Developer! = New Design
2007-09-06 11:20:00 Help Develop er is starting to suffer a bit, I have had not one submission from anybody else so its is looking very empty which is a shame. The user gets 50% of the ad revenue generated from their articles so I don’t know why they don’t submit, the content doesn’t even have to be unique, ... More About: Internet , Design , Make Money Online
www.simnorwebtop.com is up
2007-09-05 11:40:00 It took three days but now I can finally say that the domain for all of the latest news on Simnor Webtop and where the webtop will be finally hosted is up and running. I have also designed what I think to be a very nice wordpress theme for the blog (I may make it ...
2 more weeks until I go to uni
2007-09-02 22:09:00 I am really looking forward to the freedom and fun that will come on Saturday 15th September, when I move to uni and thought its about time I blogged about it. I will be going to the University of Huddersfield in the UK to do a BSc(Hons) degree (Bachelor of Science) in Software Development, where I ... More About: Weeks
Create web 2.0 style text in The Gimp
2007-09-02 19:53:00 The web 2.0 effect really helps websites look great, this is done with web 2.0 style buttons, gradients, lines etc. One effect is also web 2.0 text usually used in logos. I am going to show you how to create a simple web 2.0 looking text for the words Help Developer! Firstly I am going to ... More About: Design , Style , Text , Gimp , Create
More people use Linux than Windows 98 - what an achievement [sarcasm]
2007-09-02 00:33:00 Well okay in a way it isn’t sarcasm because this means that Linux is slowly gaining ground. According to the W3Counter, more people use Linux that Windows 98, 2003, ME, NT and the old Apple Mac PowerPC (not the OS X 10). Could this be because of how much Linux has been brought to peoples ... More About: Internet , People , Sarcasm
Simnor Webtop Logo
2007-09-01 18:16:00 Today I got my logo for Simnor Webtop and here it is, tell me what you think of it… The icon is from an icon set from Everaldo which is what I will hopefully be using in the Webtop as it shows elegance and professionalism, it really brings something to the logo. The Crystal Icon set from ... More About: Logo
Simnor Webtop Update
2007-09-01 00:40:00 For those who are following Simnor Webtop, I have just purchased the Simnor Webtop domain www.simnorwebtop.com, it is still been sorted out now, but you will in the next couple of days be able to keep up to date with everything by going there. I will place a blog and further information about the change ... More About: Update
Digg?s new design
2007-09-01 00:35:00 I haven’t been to Digg for a while, I’ve been working on other things, so it suprised me this morning when I just nipped over there to see if there was anything major happening, I didn’t expect a redesign. So my opinions: Well, I like it and I don’t, Digg used to have elegance and simplicity, now ... More About: Internet , Design , Blogging
Create a web 2.0 button with Gimp
2007-09-01 00:31:00 Web 2.0 design lifts sites into a new league of elegance, and one of the main features is web 2.0 buttons, they look hard to make but in actual fact, they are really simple. Just follow this tutorial to create this: Create a new canvas with the dimensions 100px by 27px We are going to make our button ... More About: Internet , Design , Button , Gimp
New Designs - Trying them out
2007-09-01 00:29:00 Lets face it, Wordpress designs are a plenty, you can go to wordpress download sites and see thousands of great (and some not so great) wordpress themes. Personally I have created about 10 wordpress themes now, some on contracts with Simnor Web Design, some that I sold and three that I have submitted to the ... More About: Blogging , Designs
24/08/07
2007-08-24 20:33:00 Hi, today’s been a bit of a rush. I went into town and did some uni shopping, I got most of it and it came to less than 50 quid, so that aint bad at all, I know people who are spending hundreds and hundreds on this stuff. I also had some strange calls today, probably ...
The Computing Expert new design
2007-08-24 11:02:00 I have recently learnt how to design and code wordpress themes and now that most of my sites were based on Wordpress I have decided that it would be a good idea to redesign this blog. I like this Mac theme but I have always liked a darker theme, something that makes the blog feel ... More About: Design , Computing , Expert , Pert
I?m coming back to blogging
2007-08-24 10:59:00 I am sorry that I haven’t been able to blog for a while because I have been working on some other projects and saving up for university, but now I am going to come back and I am going to make it more personal. Everyday (fingers crossed) I will put a post on before I ... More About: Blogging , Back , Ming
I got into Uni
2007-08-24 10:56:00 Hi, just a heads up to anybody who is interested, I got the grades I needed to go to the University of Huddersfield here in the UK to do a BSc(Hons) degree in Software Development. Its a four year course, 3 years of teaching (year 1, 2 and 4) and a year in a work placement ...
Simnor Webtop - The start of my journey
2007-08-23 14:29:00 Hi, I run Simnor Computing as you may well know if you follow this blog. I am working on a new project which will hopefully be released in January 2008, fingers crossed. Simnor Webtop is what I believe to be the future of the desktop as we know it. Software is moving to the internet, just ... More About: Windows , Linux , Internet , Apple
Ubuntu badges for your computer
More articles from this author:2007-08-14 00:15:00 We’ve had Windows badges for a long time now, those aluminium badges that can be found on nearly every computer. Well now Ubuntu is getting more lime light they are introducing their official aluminium badge. You can order them for a measly $4.72 but you have to bulk buy. You can view more information at the ... More About: Hardware , Linux , Open Source , Computer 1, 2, 3 |
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