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The Future of Advertising: Catvertising
The latest trend in online marketing smells slightly fishy, and will claw at your leg.
DEVASTATION: White iPhone Too Thick
Doug Aamoth of Time’s Techland reports on the long-awaited release of the great white iPhone.
Hey WordPress, Where’d My Excerpt Go?
As of WordPress 3.1, some post and page editing options have been hidden, including the Except field.
WordPress Best Practise: Optional Styles
WordPress magician and SEO expert Joost de Valk on front end development best practise.
Firefox Developers Like Ghostbusters
As though you needed yet another reason to like the Mozilla Firefox web browser.
Random Post Order in WordPress
Randomising your post order in WordPress should be as easy as hitting Command-Shift-R to hard refresh your page, but depending on your theme set-up, there are a number of approaches to consider, some more random than others.
Installing Magento in MAMP
Magento. Truly the kitchen sink of open source shopping carts and e-commerce packages, and with enough features to shake a stick or spanner at, but like a kitchen sink, it can take a little specialist knowledge to install.
Go Banana for Olicana
Unless you’ve endless quills, parchment and a parlour full of lace sleeved dandies to scratch forth, you can never have enough handwriting style script fonts.
WTF Thunderbird?
As of version 2.x, Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client forwards email messages as .eml attachments by default. Which is not a particularly good situation, unless you actually enjoy playing ping pong with your mail server.
Google Analytics Plugin for WordPress
Another time-saving, life-easing plugin for WordPress by Dutch blogging superstar and plugin developer extraordinaire, Joost de Valk.
Definitive Guide to Magento SEO
Put down your steelo and scour the web no more for tips; finally a definitive guide to SEO for open-source e-commerce platform Magento has been written.
I apologise for this automatic reply to your email
Spam is a scourge and needs must be contained, but an auto-reply and being forced to complete a form requesting to be added to a list of approved senders just to reply to someone who has already sent you an email? A disturbing near on clueless trend that must not be encouraged.
Hillhouse Font Download
A good quality, stylish, “old-school” font from Oxfordshire designers Hicksdesign, based upon the distinctive handwriting of Glasgow architect and potential Oscar Wilde impersonator Charles Rennie Mackintosh, evocative of the paintings of contemporary artist John William Waterhouse.
Arial vs Helvetica
Arial, the ubiquitous Windows system font found everywhere from your boss’s email signature at work to the pass-me-on emails your that your grandma keeps on sending, is definitely not Helvetica as you can see above, but it is for all intents and purposes the poor mans’ version of, copied appropriated and shipped by Microsoft with Windows 3.1.
Keyboard Shortcuts to Sync Audio in VLC
Worse than even hard-coded subtitles or footage captured by an aisle mounted, cheap handicam in a Vladivostok multiplex, out of sync audio beats all other irritations hands down in its efficacy to ruin a movies’ viewing pleasure.
