Archive for January, 2010
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
This is a fairly short review of the High School Musical photo cube. The reason for the review being quite short is that there is nothing good that I can think to write about it. This is a photo viewer in the shape of a cube, with High School musical pictures on 3 sides, controls […]
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
This is the second “advanced” PHP book that I’ve reviewed. The first was Wicked Cool PHP Scripts. This is the advanced series relating to the Visual QuickStart Guides. Advanced PHP 5 covers a number of different topics designed to take the proficient PHP programmer a bit further. This provides a good founding into some additional […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
I try to be an advocate for Linux through my blog and tweets etc. Occassionally I will mention linux to friends and family, but I don’t normally go around “preaching” Linux to others. Recently I was purchasing a Linux Magazine (and a web design magazine) from my local Tesco’s store and I ended up in […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
I’ve already written about my experience with baby sign-language, but that was when my first child was just under two. We’ve now got a second child who is almost two who has taken very differently to baby sign-language. So this now gives a contrast between how different children sometimes take to baby sign-language more than […]
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
The latest version of Firefox is now available to download. Firefox 3.6 is the latest release following on just over 6 months after the successful release of Firefox version 3.5.
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
I’ve been to the Black Country Museum quite a lot so I was surprised to find I hadn’t actually created a review for the WatkissOnline Baby and Children pages. This has however worked in the favour of the museum as they have made some improvements recently which mean this is a more favourable review than […]
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Sunday, January 17th, 2010
Although the description for this book suggests it would be useful for a wide range of people, it is going to be of more use to health and safety professionals rather than lay people with health and safety responsibilities. The book consists primarily of bullet points summarising the legislation with little or no further explanation. […]
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
I’m always on the lookout for new ways to make First Aid and related topics a bit more interesting and fun to learn for firstaidquiz.com. Recently on Facebook a friend of mine posted some text encoded using the NATO phonetic alphabet, which got me thinking wouldn’t it be good to have a quick tool you […]
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Back in the 1990’s I used to use Mandrake Linux as my preferred distribution. Back in the day it had great hardware support and looked good.Mandrake merged with Lycoris and Connectiva to form Mandriva Linux. Mandriva went through a stage where the distribution was not as stable as it should have been and about that […]
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
In an earlier post, about using Thunderbird to filter spam emails, I mentioned that IMAP has many advantages over POP3. I then skirted over the subject and never really explained either protocols. Here is a quick overview of how both work and why you may choose one over the other. I’ll also explain a little about SMTP and what that means.
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