I was wondering how Google indexed The Sun’s content but managed to get through the paywall the other day and thought I’d visit the site as GoogleBot, doubting really that my childish ruse would work. It seems, however, that The Sun’s paywall really needs a bit of love and attention to stop people circumventing it. […]
Finally – I can get rid of the Mountain Lion Mac Software Update Notification
This post is for anyone who has struggled to get rid of the Mountain Lion Mac software update notification. All other notification badges have a ‘Cancel’ button, but software update only has ‘More Details’ and ‘Update’. Sometimes I’ve left that notification sitting on my desktop for weeks. Sounds stupid, right? Well, yes, it’s pretty stupid and […]
solution to invalid-request-cookie reCaptcha problem
I’m posting this merely as an aide memoire to myself and also in case it helps anyone tearing their hair out regarding a reCaptcha form that was refusing to pass variables over. I had a form on an old site using tables. On one page the recaptcha form worked well. On another, the reCaptcha was […]
iTunes Match: fix for unplayable songs on iOS6 / iPhone5
iTunes match doesn’t seem to be working on iOS6 for a lot of people. Every device of mine was fine until iOS6 and the iPhone5. When I went to play a song, the phone waited for a second or so, and then went crazy. It skipped to the next song and the next song […]
An apple a day keeps the developer away
Why are Apple making developing websites with Safari a pain? It used to be my favourite tool, but recent changes in Mountain Lion will make Safari my least-favoured browser. No RSS You can see the argument for deprecating RSS feeds. They’re a bit like cassette tapes: cherished by a dwindling minority and ignored by the […]
Branch completely bypasses IE
Ev Williams and Biz Stone launched Branch this week and as you might expect, not much attention has been paid to older browsers, but exactly how little is a surprise to me. Last year I took a look at how the shop window of the web was changing so that not every user gets the […]
Resource Fork Files, SVN and Versions App: A Cautionary Tale
Every now and again, you come across an unGoogleable problem. This particular one drove me nuts… The Problem I have a new SVN project on an Ubuntu box. I copy files from my Mac desktop to this project via AFP (dragging and dropping with the Ubuntu box mounted as a /Volume) and clean up any […]
Finally – an alternative to MobileMe galleries
It’s been over a year since Apple announced that they were going to kill off MobileMe galleries but I think I have just found a decent replacement. Zing Zang is a completely free alternative to MobileMe that doesn’t clog up your hard drive, as DropBox would, and that has no ads whatsoever. The interface uses […]
Domain name vultures
There’s a saying that even in a recession, the undertaker’s is the only business that is unaffected. It seems that in a digital age, this applies also to domain name vultures. As a rule of thumb, domain names are leased for fixed length periods from a registry such as Nominet or ICANN. The domain name […]
Ramp up your Google Local / Google Places SEO
Coming soon…