I’m one of those people who insist who looking around each year for the best car insurance – it makes sense to not be paying more than you should. And, although, the price comparison sites will remember past quotes it’s still a chore every year going through it and re-submitting, especially when your details probably [...]
The ReTrak Business Traveller competition finished yesterday and I’ve now, randomly, picked a winner. Congratulations go to Ken Campbell from Kettering. The question was… How many year’s warranty does the ReTrak Retractable HDMI Cable with Multi Adapter Tips come with? The correct answer was… 3 years! All variations on this answer were accepted. Well done Ken! Look out for [...]
When deciding on the most suitable camera for you to buy this year, the best strategy is to read as many reviews as you can to get a feel for the market. There are so many great new makes and models coming out in 2012 that the choice will not be an easy one. Technology [...]
Since my Raspberry Pi review I’ve had some comments (and, I suspect, more to come) critisising my poor review of the product. The first one I answered personally but after the second person made different arguements but I would have answered them in an almost identical way I thought a seperate article may be appropriate, explaining in a lot [...]
WordPress is a fantastic blogging platform – I love both using it and developing for it. However, with regard to the latter I find it a struggle to promote the work I do. Any WordPress plugins that I develop are free, GPL licensed and I provide free support via the WordPress.org site or, preferably, here [...]
I met a Skype representative recently and was asked the question, “do you use Skype”. My answer was “no, but I don’t know why”. And I suspect my answer echoes a lot of other people. Skype offers free video calling world-wide. Even if it’s just to your mum in the next town, it’s still a [...]
This review is part of the 1 Pound Challenge – can you find a decent gadget in a pound shop? Before I start, I should add that although it’s called an iPhone/iPad Docking Station there is a sticker on the product which states that it doesn’t work with iPads. However, I have tried this with an iPod Touch and [...]
The bare-bones Raspberry Pi board is great for looking at and being generally tactile with technology, but it’s sometimes equally nice to try and keep it away from prying fingers To this end I decided to see what cases are available for the Pi. Naturally, I turned to eBay and quickly found something that sounded [...]
Raspberry Pi is a novel, brilliant idea. A cheap $25 computer that will help re-invigorate people’s (particularly children’s) interest in computers – the hardware, software and in programming. You can put free versions of Linux onto it, and there would be programming packages available too. There’s no better way to learn about computers than a [...]
I recently reviewed the excellent BytePac , allowing you to store and access old hard drives via some simple cardboard packaging. Now, they’ve documented a simple method to download the entire contents of Wikipedia and add them to a BytePac connected drive. They’ve even provided a template that you can print to add a Wikipedia themed cover to your storage box. Is it worthwhile? That’s [...]
My recent review of the Lenovo A1 tablet revealed that although it’s an excellent bit of hardware for the money it does suffer from some bugs and it would appear that Lenovo are not going to support it very much in the future – certainly not to the point of upgrading the version of Android on it. Because of this I made the [...]
Are you finding the handset volume, even at maximum, too low? Or the same when connecting via the headset? Well, there’s a secret ServiceMod menu where you can set it. On the phone keypad, type… *#*#197328640#*#* This enters the hidden ServiceMode screen. Be careful to not change anything in here unless you know what you’re [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been hosting this site with Memset for some time. They’ve provided an excellent, quick and stable service throughout. With a change in emphasis towards providing servers rather than hosting, though, my recent time with them has not been without its strained relationship. Some time ago my hosting package was done away with to new [...]
2011 has been a hectic year for me and my WordPress plugins. I’ve learnt an awful lot – especially thanks to the excellent book Professional WordPress Plugin Development . As a result I’ve been re-visiting a lot of my plugins and vastly improving their code quality and capabilities. I’ve also got rid of my first plugin . Plugins that have been given a fresh lick [...]
I’m going to assume you know what I mean by the new cookie regulations. Anyway, they come into force on the 26th May 2012 although the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) is saying that it has no plans to fine people immediately. Instead they will instigate action when a user complains via a webpage that the ICO have not [...]
With a number of plugins under my belt, I’ve collected a number of theories on what you shouldn’t do. All of them are relevant, if light-hearted. Don’t allow your plugin to rely on third party code If you do and it doesn’t work (or doesn’t work as the users want) then you’ll be crucified. No [...]
Most people don’t realise that running this site and developing WordPress plugins is not a full time job for me. Therefore I have to find the time during lunchtimes and snatching time in the evenings. However, this week I’m off and have decided to tackle a big upgrade to my most popular WordPress plugin – [...]
I’ve been needing a switch for some time. As with most people I rely on the ports on the back of my ISP supplied router, but those 4 don’t get very far. For some time it’s been filled by my desktop PC, NAS, Pogoplug and Solwise Homeplug. Now I have a Raspberry Pi I could do with one more. [...]
This review is part of the 1 Pound Challenge – can you find a decent gadget in a pound shop? Not to be confused with the identically named product , this has a more square design with each of the 4 USB ports on their own separate side. The top is domed and the plastic hub measures approx. 6x6x2cm. The version I have [...]
There are a number of USB monitors now beginning to come into the market. The idea is that you plug these into your laptop, as required, to give an extended desktop. The problem with most of them, however, is that their output is usual quite poor, often with reduced angles and low levels of brightness. [...]
One of the problem with Apple devices (and a growing number of Android devices now) is the inability to expand the device’s storage. With Apple pushing music and films via iTunes unless you picked wisely in the first place you may find yourself rapidly running out of space on your iPad, iPod or iPhone. As [...]
Again , needing to provide information for a page for the press I created a shortcode that would output the number of posts that have been published. And it’s just 2 lines long! Copy the code below into your theme’s functions.php file and then place the shortcode wherever you wish the count of posts to appear. [...]
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