Archive for October, 2010
iToolSoft DVD Ripper
iToolSoft produce a wide range of ripping and conversion software. And, at the moment, they are giving away their popular DVD Ripper software – it’s 100% clean of viruses, etc, and is restriction free. It’s a 15.5 MB download and 60.9 MB once installed. It’s quick to start and uses it’s own GUI, rather than the [...]
Sennheiser PX 210 BT
Sennheiser have long been favourites of mine – their earphones are my default when I’m work (I can’t use my Creative set due to their noise reduction as I can’t otherwise hear the phone!). The PX 210 BT are a Bluetooth, cordless pair of on-ear headphones. They also use the apt-X codec technology as well to improve the Bluetooth sound quality [...]
Laptop batteries – when and how should you charge them?
I have to say, I’m confused. I keep reading conflicting information about what to do with laptop batteries and charging them. Most advise seems to revolve around regularly using the battery until its flat and then re-charging it. Elsewhere, though, I’ve read that with modern batteries this isn’t required and, in fact, damages them. The [...]
WP README Parser WordPress Plugin Released
I mentioned last week that I was working on a plugin that will parse and display a WordPress plugin README file in a post or on a page. Well, after a lot of sweat and tears, it’s finished and released! WP README Parser has taken a lot of work and I hope people – particularly WordPress plugin developers who wish to display [...]
Simple Timed Content – WordPress Plugin Updated
Simple Timed Content is a plugin that provides a shortcode, for use in posts and pages, that will show or hide content depending on the current date and/or time. Earlier this week I was contacted by Jeff Kereakoglow who suggested that I add an “On Day” and “Off Day” option to Simple Timed Content, allowing content to be [...]
Two WordPress Plugin Updates
Two of my WordPress plugins have been updated… Simple Feed List now works from a shortcode as well the PHP function call. This means you can add feed lists into posts and pages. Simple Code Embed has an options screen that allows you to specify your own embed word as well as modify the maximum number of embeds allowed per page/post [...]
Asus EEE PC 701 – Updating Firefox & Flash
My wife has had her Asus EEE PC 701 for a good few years now and still uses it on a daily basis – pretty much only for internet access, though. However, she’s now found that she can’t access Google Calendar as it’s no longer compatible with Firefox 2, which the EEE PC has. Asus [...]
Sky+ bug hits Copy+ users
As you may know, I’m the web developer for the Copy+ software , a freeware Sky HD backup and copying tool. The developer, Stuart McConnachie, used to work with me many years ago – he writes the software and I keep the website going. It’s a relationship that works well and Copy+ has been of use to [...]
WordPress README files and Markdown
For those who’ve not come across , it’s a way of using simple keyboard characters in a text file to indicate formatting. For example **this would be bold**. WordPress uses Markdown for the README files that accompanies each plugin – this same file is used to display the plugin details on the WordPress site. Therefore, [...]
T-Mobile and Orange owners can now share networks!
The merger of Orange and T-Mobile was some time ago and the intention is to continue to run them as seperate entities. None-the-less, there are advantages to the merger of some areas, and they’ve now announced that as of yesterday, users of either of their networks can now freely roam onto the other. What does [...]
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