Wireless in OSX Lion

by Tom on November 17, 2011

I’ve been having massive problems with my wireless at home on a netgear router since I switched to Lion. The connection would last anywhere between 30 seconds and 10 minutes but always eventually drop out. Stopping airport and re-enabling it would make the connection work again but only until it dropped out again. After reading [...]

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Slip of the profile pic!

by Tom on January 27, 2011

Be careful when submitting profile pictures for inclusion on external websites! Our very own Sarah Bale made a small ‘cock up’ recently! http://www.marketingdonut.co.uk/experts/sarah-bale Thankfully, not only is Sarah Bale great at marketing and promotion, she’s also got a great sense of humour. A big help around here!

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Getting rid of Front Row shortcut

by Tom on November 8, 2010

This has annoyed me so many times, and after my computer crashing I had to do something about it. Front Row popping up when you accidentally hit the wrong keys! So how do you stop Front Row? Just go in to System Preferences and then Keyboard then Keyboard Shortcuts, Untick the box and save! Does [...]

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What is around the corner?

by Tom on November 6, 2010

I don’t often blog about my thoughts regarding the Internet industry. Not because they’re few and far between but because there are generally too many of them, this is, however, one that keeps popping up in my mind. It’s almost not worth saying because it’s so blatantly obvious, but the next big thing that’s going [...]

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Recently, we had to implement select all, select none functionality for ContactZilla as shown: After a lot of searching around, the only plugin I could find that did sort of what I wanted was http://tympanus.net/codrops/2010/05/31/sliding-checkbox-actions-menu-with-jquery/ but, I wasn’t after a tutorial, I wanted a plugin I could just drop in and reuse. After downloading the [...]

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Speaking at WDC2010

by Keir on October 29, 2010

Tom and I had the pleasure of talking at this year’s Web Developer Conference, expertly organised and delivered by Alex Older of Bluefly Digital. For our presentation, entitled ‘The Real Fruits of our Labour?’, we decided to tap in to the wealth of experience we’ve gained from our long-serving, freelancer-agency working relationship and we’re pleased [...]

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Apache Solr is great for full text searches on lucene indexes, and it also features hit highlighting, faceted search and other goodies. However, as the indexes grow and the response times get worse, the administrating of Solr, configuring and re-configuring, tweaking code here and there starts becoming a bit of a pain. Tom and Chris [...]

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RatZilla

by Ferenc on July 23, 2010

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We recently moved to a great new office near Spike Island, the SS Great Britain and plenty of water. The space has worked out brilliantly for us, here’s a quick look at what we’ve done with it so far. Still a bit of painting to do!

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This post will take a scenario which might be useful for small businesses and shows a possible solution. Keywords: FBML, FBJS, profile tab, fan page tab, landing page FBML stands for FaceBook Markup Language. It is a modified subset of HTML. FaceBook has two main types of environments: FBML and iframe. These environments require different [...]

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