8th Mar

Affordable Secure Backup

Whether you are an IT professional or a computer novice, choosing the right backup system to use at work or home is a difficult, and frankly uninspiring use of time, and one which almost always results in making undesirable compromises. There always seem to be far too many options and the good solutions come with a price tag that almost matches the cost of the system they were designed to support. A good backup system should satisfy, at least, the following requirements:

It should be affordable.
Operation should be reasonably well automated.
It should be easy to restore to one of several points in time.
There should be some redundancy.
It should be simple to store some backups offsite.
Media should be encrypted for security.

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27th Apr

Poll: What CMS do you use when developing websites?

Do you build websites? Do you offer your clients a content management system to provide them a method of updating their website? If so, what CMS do you use?…

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2nd Apr

PNG Fix for IE6 – brucey says “come on down”!

We all know IE6 is a bag ‘o’ shite poo right? Well unfortunately there are still loads of people who use it. This is not necessarily a problem in …

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3rd Feb

Your CSS framework needs you!

What’s a CSS framework?
A CSS framework can help you achieve rapid development of websites, web apps and mashups. It eliminates repetitive tasks while prototyping designs by using …

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31st Jan

Archive44.com

Archive44.com is a fun little project I decided to do on the spur of the moment. It’s basically an archive of over 900 front pages of newspapers from all over the world on the day Barack Obama, the …

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26th Jan

New Photoshop Interface Revealed

Adobe revealed their new ‘traditionally themed’ Photoshop interface this week at their annual AdobeExpo. The drastic redesign has come after months of highly publicised campaigning by angry Anti-Adobe protesters who state that their …

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5th Jan

CSS NEWS – A quick catchup

Some CSS news from the web design industry. I have cherry-picked these articles and tools, aimed specifically at CSS and web design. Enjoy!

My Top 10 Most Used CSS Class Names

Many developers are puzzled when it comes to assigning class …

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1st Dec

An alternative to sIFR

Rich typography on the web

sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) is a mix of Javascript and Flash that enables a web designer to move away from the restrictions of on being able to use web-safe fonts …

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30th Oct

CSS Box Model Hierarchi

Yep the good old CSS box model, explained once more. The CSS box model is a fundamental element of modern web design that all web designers need to master. …

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30th Oct

CSS for ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS – shaping up with CSS

Learning CSS from the beginning

CSS is an abbreviation for Cascading Style Sheets. Web designers use a CSS file to control the visual layout of a web page, grouping all styling declarations into one reference document while removing them from the …

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7th Oct

A List Apart – 10 years on

A List Apart, the original online magazine targeting ‘people who make websites’, is 10 years old. Jeffrey Zeldman, co-founder of A List Apart, has written an …

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28th Sep

10 CSS shorthand techniques you’ll use everyday

CSS shortland is a technique of writing mulitple declarations and values in a single line of CSS code. The …

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21st Sep

How to downgrade packages in Ubuntu

I had an issue today when installing pytrainer. It wanted to install some extra python packages but it couldn’t.

The reason was that I had python2.5 v2.5.2-2ubuntu5 installed but the extra packages depended on an older version – 2.5.2-2ubuntu4.1.

I don’t …

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21st Sep

Partion Windows and Linux with GParted

I run Windows Vista on dual boot. My inclination is to get rid of it altogether, but I paid for a license thanks to the Microsoft Tax when I bought the machine and sometimes vendors (Garmin for example) …

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16th Sep

Cupsd Authentication in Ubuntu

Typical, after my last post extolling the virtues of how easy it was to install a printer in Ubuntu I hit a problem today.

The symptoms are that you go to do a printer administration task, like add a printer, …

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