Posts Tagged “Random Info”
Festive Wishes
by leon on December 24, 2007
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of the SizzlaBlog readers. 2007 has been a great year with over 6,000 visits between the launch in mid September and now. Look forward to more tutorials and Flash things in (…)
Browsershots.org
by leon on December 6, 2007
I came across a really useful and easy to use site called browsershots. The idea is simple – you submit your site, and it gives you screenshots of what your site looks like in various browsers on various platforms. This (…)
The most common search term?
by leon on November 29, 2007
What do you reckon the most common search term is? Try typing in ‘http:/’ in to Google, and you will get approx 2.2 Trillion results. If you were to click on each one, and wait for the site to load (…)
I’ve converted
by leon on November 28, 2007
I’ve finally joined the iPod revolution, by purchasing a new (ish) iPod from the Apple store. Up until now, I have been using the rather pathetic 2Gb of storage on my Nokia N73. For not a lot of money, I (…)
Proof (if needed) that IE7 is rubbish!
by leon on October 17, 2007
So I thought that with the release of IE7 some of the bugs would be fixed. Who was I kidding? I recently found some code to create an RSS feed from a database, set it up and got it working. (…)
Front Row in Leopard
by leon on October 17, 2007
Just a quick note. On the Apple site, it states that you must have an Apple Remote in order to use Front Row in Leopard. This may be a bit of a bummer for you guys that don’t own one. (…)
Two more great Growl plug-ins
by leon on October 16, 2007
This is just a link for two great plugins for Growl that notify you when there is a change in either Thunderbird or Firefox. In Thunderbird, Growl displays a notification when new mail is recieved, and in Firefox displays when (…)
Un-Plugged – plugin for Growl
by leon on October 15, 2007
Un-Plugged is a nice little app that works in conjunction with Growl to give you a graphical notification of both your battery level and whether or not you external power lead is connected. This is one of those seemingly pointless (…)
reCAPTCHA – spam detection
by leon on October 11, 2007
I have recently added some further spam protection to the blog. Users don’t need to register to leave comments, instead they can now authenticate their comment by using reCAPTCHA. A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user (…)
I’m sorry Windows guy!!
by leon on October 9, 2007
So, it looks like I have upset a few Windows fans out there. I recently wrote two post’s as a bit of a rant towards Windows, and some of the comments back made me laugh. This isn’t an official blog, (…)