Archive for February, 2012
800dpi Precision Optical Mouse
This review is part of the 1 Pound Challenge – can you find a decent gadget in a pound shop? Pound products have been a bit of a mixed bag – some have been excellent but equally some have been appalling and others have been, well, meh. Walking into PoundWorld today I say an optical mouse – for 1 [...]
Sony PlayStation Vita Starter Kit
As well as the Vita itself, I also ordered the official Sony “starter kit” for the console. This is, really, a bunch of basic accessories that you’d have hoped might have come with it. It includes a screen protector, cleaning cloth, adjustable wrist strap, 8 game cartridge case, pouch and console case. What I really [...]
Sony PlayStation Vita
I have in my hands Sony’s latest portable console, the PlayStation Vita. There are 2 versions available – 3G and wi-fi. The latter, as you can imagine, is cheaper and is the version that I have a . It was launched in Japan back in December and today to the rest of the world. I pre-ordered [...]
A Further Deleted WordPress Plugin
I mentioned the other day, after deleting a number of plugins , that I would soon also be deleting WP Plugin Cache from WordPress.org. That’s now happened. WP Plugin Cache was written to provide caching facilities to other plugins. At the time I wasn’t aware that WordPress had its own caching facility that plugins could use and only got around [...]
How to suppress Skimlinks for some content in WordPress
Skimlinks is a great way to moneterise a blog. Once signed up and approved you simple need to add a line of JavaScript to your site and it will add moneterised links to your output. However, you may be adding sponsored posts or your own links and may not want Skimlinks to modify the entire, or [...]
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 3D
Before I start I should really point out that I’m a rarity. I don’t mind Jar Jar Binks. Having said that my daughter doesn’t either – she finds the young “Annie” far more irritating. So, having put that into context, I don’t mind The Phantom Menace. I do think it’s the weakest of the Star [...]
Deleted WordPress Plugins
Today I reviewed my developed plugins and made the decision to remove some. I’ve detailed which ones they were below. As to why I deleted them, as a general rule of thumb they had low popularity, were in desperate need of updating but I simply couldn’t justify doing so. In the meantime I have to [...]
Automatically adding Simple Social Bookmarks plugin to your posts
My Simple Social Bookmarks plugin is incredibly powerful. However, if you don’t have coding skills, say from an accredited online college , or access to your theme files then adding it is rather difficult. If you’re in this situation, then here’s the solution (in a future release of the plugin I’ll automate this)… Open up the functions.php file in your theme folder and add the following [...]
ReTrak Headphone Splitter Cable
ReTrak , popular in the US, are now selling their range of products in the UK at retailers such as PC World , Dixons and Amazon. You may have come across retractable cables before – often found on portable mice for laptops, they wind excess cable into real which is suspended half way along the cable length. What [...]
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Fibre Broadband Options
It’s a while until my O2 broadband contract expires but, none-the-less, after all the issues I’ve had with them I’ll be keen to move on. It’s therefore worthwhile keeping an eye on the state of the market in the meantime. As I now have both cable and FTTC available to me it would seem churlish [...]
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