Monthly Archives: March 2009

Site Redesign

A little bit about what has changed and why. Grids, typography, colours and comments! Continue reading

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On Internet Explorer 6

Wherein Andrew learns why so many people have such a dislike for Microsoft’s popular web browser. Continue reading

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6 iPhone Bookmarklets

Perhaps even more handy than this is the potential for bookmarklets to add functionality to browsers which do not allow any kind of third party ad-on, for example the Safari app on the iPhone. The following is a list of my favourite iPhone bookmarklets. Continue reading

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Google Voice

In 2007, Google bought US telephone service GrandCentral and promptly closed access to new members. Everything went quiet, development apparently stopped and it seemed that was it. Well today the Google Mobile Blog has announced a relaunch of the free … Continue reading

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iPhone OS 3.0

Apple are set to announce the third major release of their iPhone OS at a media only event on 17th March. Continue reading

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Only 7 of 100 Top Web Pages Validate

In designing this blog I have been careful to adhere to web standards, and you should find that it validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional ((I know my CSS 2.1 has three errors, but to be fair they are CSS 3 … Continue reading

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iPhone Prototype Pulled From eBay

This is very interesting. For a short while a pre-release iPhone prototype was available for sale on eBay. Bidding reached $2000 before it was removed, presumably at the behest of Apple’s legal people. There was an accompanying video on YouTube, … Continue reading

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How To: MobileMe Sync Replacement for iPhone Contacts

This tutorial will show how to configure your iPhone and your Address Book in Mac OS X to synchronise with Google automatically and without any intervention. Continue reading

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Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Alpha is a search engine of sorts developed by Stephen Wolfram which computes factual answers to user entered questions. Continue reading

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The Box

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