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Easy Photoblogging with Flickr and WordPress

September 1, 2011

I used to have a Tumblr account which I used for off the cuff messages and photos. Tumblr is great but with each new service you sign up to, you further fracture your “life” stream. You put bits of content here, and other bits there. Sometimes there is overlap and sometimes there is not. I’ve [...]

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HP Touchpad – Update

August 31, 2011

Yesterday I received my 32GB HP Touchpad and after an hour or so, I wrote up my first impressions which were mostly good. The build quality was good and webOS had some very nice touches such as full multitasking and an intuitive way to browse open apps. I spent a little more time on it [...]

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HP Touchpad – First Impressions

August 30, 2011

I was lucky enough to be able to purchase a HP Touchpad during their recent fire sale. I’m sure you’re all aware of how 42 days into the launch of their new ex-Palm webOS powered tablet HP pulled the plug and slashed the retail price for remaining stock. I haven’t had a lot of time [...]

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Evernote – Print to Evernote from your iPhone

August 26, 2011

Here’s another quick Evernote tip when you’re in Wi-Fi coverage of your home but not at your computer. Actually, this tips is pretty handy for anyone that wants to print to their printer from their iPhone but doesn’t have one of the Apple recognised Air Print printers. For a reasonable sum ($19.95) you can purchase [...]

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Evernote – Scan directly to Evernote on a Mac

August 25, 2011
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Here’s a very quick tip if you’re using a Mac and you’re attempting to go paperless. You could use your scanner’s software to scan to a JPEG and then drag and drop that directly into Evernote but that’s a little time consuming when you have to do it a few dozen times. What’s more, if [...]

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Evernote – Become more efficient and productive today!

August 24, 2011
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I’m sure you’re like me. No, not really, really, ridiculously good looking; totally unorganised. I have paperwork stuffed into folders, stuffed into cupboards with heavy things moved in front to prevent the door from falling open. The back of my desk is a graveyard for lost post it notes. One day in the future an [...]

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Optimizing MySQL: ORDER BY RAND()

December 14, 2010

As I wrap up development of a project, the last thing I generally do is go through and optimize the code and MySQL work. Generally when I race through development I do enough on-the-spot optimization to ensure good practises but I don’t obsess over the minute details. One of the functions of IP.Gallery 4 is [...]

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IP.Board: Topic preview on hover

October 27, 2010

This has come up a lot over the past six months or so since we launched IP.Board 3.1 “Why can’t we have the topic preview on hover?” Well, we’re looking to add this as a default function in IP.Board 3.2, but in the mean time you can use my free hook to achieve this in [...]

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Changing Reputation to Like on IP.Board

October 11, 2010

IP.Board introduced a reputation system in 3.0. This allows members to “crowd moderate” replies to topics by up-voting or down-voting posts allowing the viewer to filter out posts below a certain threshold. Even though a reputation system is markedly different from a “like” system, there has been some demand for a “like” system in IP.Board [...]

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Why social networking is not the end for forums

November 30, 2009

I see a lot of questions centred around social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook and how it will affect forums. I also see a lot of people saying that we should focus on social networking for IP.Board to stay competitive. This crops up every few days. It’s regular enough for me to try and [...]

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