Best Streaming Media Device for travel
How I decided that the Amazon Fire Stick is the best streaming media device for a busy traveller.
web | productivity | technology
web | productivity | technology
An amazingly simple random name generator and 3 ways to use it
Use this simple technique as a random name generator
How to backup your WordPress site to Dropbox and rest easy
A step by step tutorial on how to backup your wordpress site
It’s 2010 – and I’m disappointed by the web
I feel I’ve spent the last 12 years of life, my career, trying to help people do things better. Helping them make better systems, better experiences, better websites. And I would expect that there are other people like me doing…
Setting up a custom provider in Tweetie 2.0 for Link Shortenning
JonoH on twitter recently found that Tweetie 2.1 is not correctly using the Bit.ly API, so some instructions below: You’ll need your bit.ly username and API key and then need to grab the URL for the bit.ly API endpoint for link shortenning (below),…
Twitter Post Example
A few example tweets I found recently that show good use of twitter by non-profit organisations. Starlight shares kids jokes Plan Australia shares news Red Cross become the expert Red Cross getting to the point Plan Australia sharing opinion Cancer…
Definition: Success
Someone asked me today about building a website, and part of the conversation revolved around why the site needed to exist. The answer was a few things but part of the answer was “it looks good on a resume”. This…
The Best US$50.00 I’ve Spent (on software)
There’s not much in the way of software that I pay for, in fact I go out of my way in many cases to find the free and open source alternatives. But sometimes free costs a lot more that you…
5 Excel Keyboard Shortcuts You Need to Know
I’ve been using Excel and these shortcuts for such a long time that I virtually take them for granted. These are for windows, no doubt similar on the Mac.
Printing from a Mac, sort of
About 8 weeks ago we got our first Mac computer, it will actually be used for some video and graphics work at some point in the future and I’m toying with the idea of making an iPhone App but that’s…