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Festive Wishes

leon — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:49:00 +0000

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 (…)

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Browsershots.org

leon — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:01:09 +0000

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 (…)

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The most common search term?

leon — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:08:29 +0000

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 (…)

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I’ve converted

leon — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:30:05 +0000

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 (…)

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Proof (if needed) that IE7 is rubbish!

leon — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:23:58 +0000

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. (…)

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Front Row in Leopard

leon — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:29:17 +0000

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. (…)

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Two more great Growl plug-ins

leon — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:29:19 +0000

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 (…)

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Un-Plugged – plugin for Growl

leon — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:54:48 +0000

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 (…)

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reCAPTCHA – spam detection

leon — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:35:06 +0000

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 (…)

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I’m sorry Windows guy!!

leon — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:16:36 +0000

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, (…)

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