Category: Technology

I still run into one of these occasionally, although I cannot fathom why – what would you actually use one for? Anyway – it’s quite difficult to find a splitter program if you are using a mac – you’ve probably found that cue-splitter is no longer supported and you may have stumbled into MP3 trimmer;…

I’ve recently discovered the joys of flickr (yeah I know, but I had 12 giggs of photo’s with Fotki, it was hard to move!) and I’ve been looking to integrate my use of flickr with my blogs and for use in my clients websites. First up is flickr slideshow using javascript – it’s nice and…

This has a really nifty bit of PHP for use with the UK Postcodes website API. You could use this with google maps to load a map on your web page as specified by the user.

It isn’t yet a standard, but I can’t wait for Firefox and IE9 to get properly on board – at the time of writing, Chrome and Safari both support a fair chunk, but this is likely to change when the standard gets officially signed off. DOCTYPE First, the new doctype is so much simpler! The…

I didn’t even know you could do this, let alone how, but it’s beautifully simple. All you need is the JS file and some mark up in xhtml. The ‘incremental’ class allows elements to be revealed as you press the right arrow or click to move forward. You can specify a footer and number the…

We run two load balanced servers that host our organisation’s public websites and we recently switched to WordPress having used a static site before this. Whilst WordPress offers significant gains in flexibility and functionality, we now have to write changes to two separate WordPress installations when updating a site – which is a bit tiresome…

I’ve been messing around with video editing recently – it’s something I have never really looked at before as I have never had the power to do it properly, but one of the first barriers I ran into was suitable file formats for importing into iMovie. I had a few old video’s that I wanted…

I found this post (http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/01/22/6-ways-to-customize-wordpress-post-order/) about how to get your wordpress posts sorted alphabetically and thought I would drop it here until I have time to get a fix on my recipe’s website [Edit: now amalgamated in to oliverjobson.co.uk] which I created to store some ideas for food and share them amongst friends and family…

I have been messing around with z-index recently for styling documents. I have been meaning to use it as a much more efficient way of creating cool backgrounds but it’s always been a bit of a mystery! It still seems a bit wierd – I don’t think it is supported very well in new browsers…