A Foreigner’s Guide to iPhone on AT&T

Being out in the US without a Social Security number means I have no credit rating, which makes me in-elegible for AT&T’s iPhone contract. It also means I can’t get a US credit card, although opening a bank account is…

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The iPhone really is that good

Being in Santa Monica today meant I was able to walk down to the Apple Store on 3rd Street Promenade in the evening and try out one of the new iPhone

And after playing around with it for nearly an…

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Forcing vCard downloads on the web

A vCard is like an electronic business card. VCards are often attached to emails, or placed on the contact page of a website (see my contact page, for example). VCards can be easily imported into Outlook, and clicking…

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How to save £750 on Adobe CS3

CS3 has arrived and you might be groaning at the price-tag: Design Premium CS3 weighs in at a hefty £1655.58 from the Adobe Store. However, A little-known policy at Adobe called post announce upgrade means that if you buy…

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FOWD Conference 2007

I spent today at the Future of Web Design conference in Kensington, listening to 13 different presentations. Andy Clarke gave an interesting talk about being creative with the creative process itself, and suggested that producing large sets of…

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  • 18 Apr 07
  • filed under Events

The BEST way to clear floats

Sometimes when building a web page you need to force a containing element to extend downwards, so that it wraps around a floating element nested inside it. Commonly this is achieved by including an extra element below the floated element,…

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  • 21 Mar 07
  • filed under Code

Rsync or graphical FTP client for website uploading?

Having to work on and update just over 30 websites for various clients means that I need some sort of system for managing server login accounts. Until recently I’ve made do with a separate Excel spreadsheet for the account details,…

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Wordpress 2.1 and Structured Blogging

The new release of WordPress, version 2.1, definitely feels faster and has several new features, including auto-save and an ‘Uploads Manager’

As expected, the nice new code causes some existing plugins to break. Unfortunately that includes the truly excellent…

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