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Spotify Premium
A few days ago I thought I'd try out Spotify Premium. I was sick of adverts on Spotify, and was getting a little bored of my own local music collection. £10 for unlimited music for a month is...
View ArticleiTunes sucks: Revisited
My last post hatin' on iTunes was admittedly a mass of swearing and improperly directed hate. Although it has yielded quite a few comments, it doesn't properly articulate the problem with Apple and...
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Hello Django... again
I migrated my blog from the Google App Engine + webapp framework to Django on my Linode. Getting my data out was a complete ball ache, but I managed it.I enjoy altering the backend of this site and...
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Unread Count
I started using the pinned tabs feature in chrome, but I thought it would be awesome if I could get the unread count from a page's title from sites like Twitter (eg (2) Twitter / Home) and overlay that...
View ArticlePortal 2 and the Valve ARG
I was initially going to post this as part of my Portal 2 review, but it really deserved a post on its own. I was following the events from April the 1st on the user-created Valve ARG Wiki, which was...
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Portal 2
Portal 2 was released on Steam on the 18th of April, a few hours earlier than planned. I have completed both the single player and co-operative campaigns, and thoroughly enjoyed them. This was a sequel...
View ArticleRedesign Again
I seem to keep doing this about twice a year, but I've redesigned again. I made it so certain posts can have animated slideshows behind their title, which makes for a pretty cool looking page.Live...
View ArticleSmooth Scroll for Chrome
I discovered the Smooth Scroll extension for Chrome the other day. It animates the scrolling of pages, making it a little more aesthetically pleasing than Chrome's default "jump" down the page. I've...
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Cheat Vignette with an Image
I was working on a landing page for a site a while back, and figured it would be nice to add a slight vignette to the page.To achieve that I created a 5x5 image, and relied on the browser's image...
View ArticleUnicode Character Browser
I made a character browser based on the Unicode Standardized Subsets on Wikipedia.Browse the characters by category, and click on a character to enlarge it and get its HTML embed...
View ArticleCascaded Fade Effect with jQuery.delay()
This is the result we're after: Play EffectThe example code: /static_media/jquery-cascade.htmlTo do the above, you use jQuery's delay() with a linearly increasing timeout, which, if you're using data...
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Five Years
My blog is 5 years old today. The first post was on the 1st of June 2006 and was called "Technophobia - Fear of technology".I can't give you overall hit stats because I've changed blog platforms and...
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Onlive: US Version (in the UK)
I checked the Onlive site earlier today to see if the service had been released in the UK (last time I checked was like November 2010), and it looked like it had. It turns out that they are just...
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Port Fowarding Behind a NAT: plink on Windows
I recently moved to an apartment block which has a fibre Internet connection. The drawback of which is that it's behind a NAT, precluding my ability to host game servers on my own computer. I sometimes...
View ArticleSplooshe Alpha #1
Newer Version Available This is the old version of Splooshe (now Estranged). The latest one is here.This post will show you how to download and install Splooshe. Please bear in mind that the game is...
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Backing Your Server Up To Dropbox
I use Dropbox daily. It's a great service - it allows me to keep my development environment the same wherever I go, and is a great tool for backing up data.However, recently I found another use for it....
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Blog Now on GitHub
I put the source of this blog on github. I had been logging the changes I'd been making for a while now, but without the code revisions to go with the changes... it was kinda useless.So here's my blog...
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AC: Revelations - Desmond's New Face
Just a heads up: some of the comments below contain story spoilers, read them at your own risk!I am being a mega nerd fanboy here, but this is annoying me. I've been waiting for Assassin's Creed...
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Splooshe Alpha #2
Newer Version Available This is the old version of Splooshe (now Estranged). The latest one is here.It has been nearly 4 months since I released Splooshe Alpha #1, and I've had some fantastic feedback...
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Drawing Animated Sun Rays in HTML Canvas
I wanted to recreate the classic kids' book sun ray effect - but have it animating and drawing in HTML canvas. You can see it in action below or on my server's default page.Change colour: blue/light...
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