Archive for the 'Computers and Internet' Category

Microsoft Football Scoreboard

June 9th, 2006

I was pointed to this earlier on today. I’m not the biggest football fan, but this mini scoreboard developed by Microsoft is pretty cool: http://tinyurl.com/o9h4w

Useful web resources

May 12th, 2006

Over the last few weeks I’ve come across some really useful resources for web development. I’ve added these to my del.icio.us feed, however I thought it was worth adding here too for those that read my blog: Pretty Printer – http://www.prettyprinter.de/ - a source code “beautifier” dp.SyntaxHighlighter - http://www.dreamprojections.com/syntaxhighlighter/ - a source code highlighter for web online snippets RegExLib [...]

Pay to send email

February 6th, 2006

Worryingly, AOL and Yahoo! are planning to implement a system called Goodmail, which will mean that companies have to pay to send bulk emails to users of these ISPs. Otherwise, it’s likely that their emails will end up being sent to junk mail folders and have emails and links removed.

Stop Badware

January 27th, 2006

Just thought I should link to a worthy cause: http://stopbadware.org/home/

20 Years of the Computer Virus

January 20th, 2006

This month marks the 20th anniversary of the first computer virus named “Brain” (so called because it changed the disk label on floppy disks to (c) Brain!).

Google Analytics Invitation

January 14th, 2006

If anyone’s got a spare Google Analytics Invitation going – give me a shout and I’ll happily take it off your hands

Getting some exposure

January 13th, 2006

A good way to get web site’s listed on search engines, particularly Google, is to try and get as many links as possible to your site from other sites. So here’s me being cheeky…

We’re getting a Google box

January 9th, 2006

Or more precisely, a Google Mini. In essence, it’s the Google search engine and web site in a dedicated box.

4DReg API

December 20th, 2005

4DReg is an application I developed during my “unemployed” time last year. In essence it is a completely automated domain registration system which allows customers to come along, search for available domain names and register them in real time. It has some added bonuses such as web and email forwards, DNS zone editing, ID Protect [...]

Site re-jig

December 16th, 2005

I decided last week that the current site design was growing a bit old and dreary so I have been playing around with some new styling and colours inspired by Nominet’s new site.

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