Jan 24 2010

Bicycle Frame Sizing Calculator

One of my hobbies outside of designing is cycling, both on the road and speeding through forests. The below site has a handy calculator to help you find the correct size frame for for your height. Continue reading


Jan 11 2010

Top 10 CSS Table Designs

Tables have got to be one of the most difficult objects to style in the Web, thanks to the cryptic markup, the amount of detail we have to take care of, and lack of browser compatibility. A lot of time could be wasted on a single table although it’s just a simple one. This is where this article comes in handy. It will show you ten most easily implemented CSS table designs so you can style your tables in a zap!

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Dec 8 2009

Indesign – duplicating a spread so it doesn’t appear at the end of the document

If you duplicate a spread in Indesign, it automatically appears at the end of the document. For me I rarely want that to happen. I want it to be on the next page or on a specific page, so I don’t have to scroll to the end of the document, highlight and drag it back up again. Continue reading


Nov 12 2009

Getting your HP PSC to scan in Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6)

I tried all the usual techniques to try and get my HP PSC 1510 to scan – restart Mac & printer, replug in device, look for new software/drivers – but nothing worked. Continue reading


Nov 5 2009

Google Chrome for Mac Beta

Google has just announced the first official beta version of Google Chrome, its browser, for Mac. This version is only available in the developer channel, for those who are developers and testers, but not the mainstream public. Continue reading


Oct 29 2009

Top 10 ways to increase your iPhone’s battery life

The iPhone battery life isn’t the best, so here are 10 ways to make it last just that little bit longer. Continue reading


Oct 21 2009

100% height div in CSS

Here I’ll explain how 100% height can be achieved cross browser, using CSS Continue reading


Jul 23 2009

Rearranging pages in an Adobe Acrobat PDF

If you’ve ever wondered how to rearrange the order of a multiple page PDF then you’re not alone. After a lot of searching I finally found out thanks to eHow.com. Here’s how you do it: Continue reading


Jul 20 2009

My top iPhone apps

I’ve finally got my hands on an Apple iPhone the other day, though only a second hand 1st generation one. I didn’t want to go on to the O2 network so I managed to unlock it using the pwnage tool by the iPhone Dev team. Took just under an hour to do and I was up and running with my with my Orange sim card in it. One of main features of the iPhone is the ability to download and install a wide variety of apps like games, shopping lists, spirit levels, torches and so on. Below are a list of my favourite apps (so far) that I’ve been Continue reading


Jul 1 2009

Not all bugs are bad

When it comes to browsers Firefox is my weapon of choice due to the really usefull add-ons that you can install. Apart from the ebay one, which we are using constantly at the moment to watch anything baby related, there is one which I could not do without as a web designer and that is Firebug. Firebug lets you edit and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. For me it’s mainly to Continue reading