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Hello,

Apoligies for the recent lack of posts. I have been very busy with projects! Have you seen the latest Depthcore? Its wonderful…….

Tags: Art, Depthcore, Depthcore, Graphics, interactive, New Media, Photography, Web Design
Posted in Cultural Theory, Graphics, Inspiration, New Media, Photography, Web Design · March 4th, 2011 · Comments (0)

Opera has slow typing on the Mac

Well I admit it, I’m a massive fan of Opera and always have been. Even when you had to buy Opera I was happy to purchase a copy simply because of the good quality. When I last updated to 10.61, however, on my mac I noticed that a problem appeared where typing into text boxes of any kind became unbearably slow. Unfortunately this has not been fixed yet – and I hope it will soon. For those of you that are willing to go back to version 10.5 – 10.54 then this is not a problem.

The only current solution is to go back to the old version, which I have just done. I will update this post when Opera make a bugfix, but in the meantime I hope this is useful information as there is very little about this error on the net.

Here’s a link to a potentially useful forum post on the subject.

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=103024

Tags: browser, Mac, opera, Software
Posted in Apple Mac, General Information, Software, Useful WEB DEVELOPER Tools · August 18th, 2010 · Comments (1)

The Child is the Father of the Man

I have been doing a lot of experimenting with the thematic wordpress framework recently. I really enjoy working with it as it does make hacking templates a lot easier – and provides a clean slate for styling.

The thematic documentation is sadly lacking, those with bigger balls will look at the code and do thousands of internet searches to find the answers to their questions – however many simply give up; (only to return later when they have no joy hacking a nasty free template).

Overriding templates and functions is the basis of creating a thematic child theme. I have searched many websites and finally found a really good source of information on the correct way of doing this. So here it is, thanks venutip

http://venutip.com/content/right-way-override-theme-functions

Tags: CMS, Thematic, Theme, Wordpress
Posted in Useful WEB DEVELOPER Tools, Web Design · June 15th, 2010 · Comments (0)

web 2.0 hell? new colourLovers

Does anyone remember the old COLOURlovers web site? Coz it was beautiful. Nice delicate gradients, an intuitive moving menu, enough style to make a graphic designer happy – yet enough ease of use for a newbie to computers. So why fix it if it’s not broke? Thoughts anyone?

Tags: Color, colour, COLOURlovers, Web Design
Posted in Graphics, Web Design · March 11th, 2010 · Comments (0)

Traa Dy Liooar

On the Isle of Man the pace of life is certainly more relaxed than say London. There is a noticeable difference between the speed in which a Londoner speaks at, compared to that of a Manxie. I for one love the relaxed pace, and certainly the more relaxed way of speaking – but how does this work out in business? The BBC published an article way back in April 2008 about this difference in pace of life.

port erin beach at sunset

I have noticed that on the Isle of Man, especially for a freelancer, business deals take a long time. Sometimes you hear of “I need a website, can you help” and then a gap of around 3 months before you hear anything else. Sometimes there is no follow up conversation at all. Meetings can be arranged, only to be delayed by people who don’t show up.

What are your experiences of working on the Isle of Man? Can you agree with the statements above?

Traa Dy Liooar is “time enough” in Manx

Tags: Business, communication, isle of man, meetings, Web Design
Posted in Business, Social · February 19th, 2010 · Comments (0)

Quick Break of the Silence

Hi kids I’m currently very busy working and won’t have time to blog until next week or the week after. I shall have plenty to talk about so keep checking for updates in the near future!

Posted in Uncategorised · January 15th, 2010 · Comments (0)

http://www.mannifestlive.com/

Mannifest :: Music and Film Garden Party
Kosheen + Easty Star All Stars get to mix with some of the local talent from this very creative and wonderfully musical island!

Show ur support guys an buy some tickets

Posted in Uncategorised · August 5th, 2009 · Comments (0)

The power of fun! Performing arts website goes live :)

From stilt walking, to fire shows, to workshops for kids Mike and Jo really know how to get a party going! With the launch of their site: http://theplaypeople.weebly.com/ you can now contact them and hire their services for your party.

Street performers have always been a great way to liven up any event from corporate events, to kids parties; and its really amazing just how many different talents these two have. They can teach you how to dance, how to pogo, how to make balloons and even throw some fire around.

Check out their many talents here.

Enjoy!

Tags: baloons, entertainment, fire, fun, glow, juggling, play, poi, stilts, street performer, web
Posted in Art, Social · June 17th, 2009 · Comments (0)

@£# on a Mac

Hi there!

I found a really great article explaining how to set up your mac for a traditional British (windows) keyboard. It seems even the British keyboard which is included with the OS is missing the all important hash key. I’m not sure how a web developer is to survive without this one!

Heres a link to the instructions on how to fix the problem: Using a British/UK Windows keyboard with an Apple Mac in OS X (3)

Once you have switched to this keyboard, shift3 becomes ¬£, shift 2 becomes “, shift ‘ becomes @, and \ becomes #.

Hooray!

Tags: @, Apple, dictionary, fix, hash, keyboard, Mac, pound sign, web development
Posted in Apple Mac, Web Design · June 2nd, 2009 · Comments (0)

apologies!

We had a small problem recently with the server which meant a roll-back to 3rd March. My post about google, clusty and cuil has been lost.

Posted in Uncategorised · April 22nd, 2009 · Comments (0)