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This year has been … is being … an interesting year for me. At the turn of 08 to 09 I knew that this year held so much promise, so much potential. The media was hyping the year up in the negative sense, doom and gloom, financial ruin on every corner. Yet in the midst of this noise I heard something different, a message of change, a message of power, a message of freedom. It didn’t...

I only need to cast my mind back a day or two in my web history to remember the web the way it was. Way back in 1994 I tried to start a music sharing website for christian music – I even had some chats with big radio stations and such like, but the web then just wasn’t ready. Fast forward a few years (dang is it 15 years already?) and the web is a fundamentally different place and rich...

I know I know it’s been a little while since I actually blogged here – yeah I write things from time to time but what am I writing? What am I doing here? Goals, Targets and Celebrations If you want something in life, most people will tell you “set a goal” have a target, reach it, celebrate it and move onto the next one. I’ve had little goals and things for this blog and...

Tonight I’ve been having a play around with WolframAlpha … it’s not really due to go live until Monday US time, but they are doing some load testing and other bits over the next couple of days. If you are lucky, you might just find it running. So what is WolframAlpha? Well to be honest, there are plenty of articles out there answering this. None the least Wolfram’s own FAQ will...

Fonts & typefaces are great fun, and they can transition from being simply copy to becoming art themselves. Here is a collection of over 32 fonts to bring some fun to your design. Spin Cycle Barbecue Hill House 4 My Lover Sniglet GA_googleFillSlot("Swhiz_content_468"); 5×5 Dots Virgo 01 36 Days Ago Helsinki 1900805 Heavy Data 42 Costura Oetztype Amerika Bell Bottom Laser Journal Beestings...

I’m playing around a bit with CakePHP again today … and for some reason a few things REALLY did my head in. Like REALLY did my head in. Stupid really because about a year ago I built a full web solution in CakePHP with users, ACL, AUTH and all that stuff – and deployed it. I guess that’s what you get however when you don’t develop full time. You loose things. So, I started...

Traffic – websites live and breathe with it – without, well we might as well all pack up and go home. I’ve increased traffic to studiowhiz.com by .. well a ton recently. The past week has seen this site having over 70,000 unique visitors stop by. How do you do it? Well traditionally it’s hard to build up traffic and maintain it, however you can get spikes in traffic reasonably...

I have a few friends who are swapping from long time Windows usage to Mac usage. There are a couple of things they do on the Mac that … well they could do better. First up they load up the dock with EVERY single application & secondly they rely on the mouse to much for opening everything. Here are two handy tips that will save you HEAPS of time on the Mac. Quick Open Applications I get hassled...