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IA Writer for Mac

I have just purchased IA Writer for Mac through the Mac Store. $21.99 for a writing program so it had better be worth the money! It was only released a few hours ago, and I was excited to see if the app that people went crazy over for the iPad was going to live up […]

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OmniFocus for the iPad

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have a new iPad! To get more use than just flicking through FlipBoard, trawling through Twitter or playing FIFA 2011, I’ve made the big step and forked over the money for OmniFocus. This has taken my OmniFocus purchases up to 3. OmniFocus for the Mac OmniFocus for […]

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How to manage a team

A few days ago I received an email from an old work colleague. “This is a bit of a random, out-of-the-blue question, but I was wondering if there were any words of wisdom you had on being a team leader? Back in the UK, you always seemed to maintain control of your projects and keep […]

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Tips for using Omni Graffle

OmniGraffle is a tool used to produce wireframes. It is powerful due to the popularity of the product and number of stencils that are contributed by the community. Stencils Stencils can be found (Window – Stencils) or by pressing (Apple + 0). You will notice that you are presentend with a list of stencils you […]

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treesaver.js

I’m making a few changes to this site to improve how it appears through Flipboard. I’ve added an extra RSS feed that makes better use of the page content and includes images where required, add this site of Flipboard if you want to see how it changes. In my quest to improve I came across […]

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name bench – google dns performance tool

name bench is a great little application that has been by one of the 20% Google Development projects. What is a 20% project? It’s time that google employees are given to prototype new ideas. The ideas are then taken up by other employees as part of their own 20% of time and voila, something like […]

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Television – doing progressive enhancement since 1960

TV already solved this problem

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Nerdy Thursday Links #15

New movements again this week, and in the past few weeks. I’ve bought a new car with Laura and taken a job back with Squiz but this time the Australian branch, and I’m setting up in my home town of Darwin. But as always enough is enough, we’re here for links so here they are….. […]

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Google Page Speed Online

A few days ago Google came out with Google Page Speed Online. This is a great tool for anyone to test how their web page is performing, but it’s nothing new when it comes to reporting performance. YSlow YSlow was the first of the products released by Yahoo as a plugin for Firefox. It was […]

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Nerdy Thursday Links #14

New movements again this week, and in the past few weeks. I’ve bought a new car with Laura and taken a job back with Squiz but this time the Australian branch, and I’m setting up in my home town of Darwin. But as always enough is enough, we’re here for links so here they are….. […]