fordie’s Blog

Or easier, I’m not sure which! IE7 is due to be released this month. Initially it’ll be available via optional download from the MS website but they are going to push it out through windows update which means that take up is likely to be very quick. I’m not sure if it’s going to break [...]

Having spent many hours adding tags to Photoshop Album I was keen not to loose that information when I moved my photos to my new network hard drive, so I set about finding a way to keep it, and better yet share the tags across the network.

I spend an awful lot of time on line so I’m always keen to find ways to make it a more productive and enjoyable time. In the past few weeks and days there have been some interesting new versions of some of the major web browsers released, I’ve been playing with them to see how [...]

It would be dead handy if I could post to my blog from a mobile. I rarely find time to right entries for my blog at the moment, being able to post quickly from the phone would be realy nice. I’ve been playing about over the last day or so with lifeblog from nokia. It’s [...]

Last night I downloaded a new tool called “Carbonite” at home. It backs up your files from your PC to their servers over your broadband connection. There’s a 15 day free trial, after that it’s $5 a month, as far as I can tell there’s no limit to the amount of data you can back [...]

I spend a lot of time wrestling with CSS working round IE’s broken box model. A lot of this pain could have been avoided, if only I’d remembered about the “doctype switch”. If you don’t know what a box model is, or why IE’s is broken, have a look at this. There are lot’s of [...]

The IE team have Today announced on their blog that IE7 (Seven) will be pushed out to Windows XP users using MS automatic update (contrary to what Chris Wilson told Vitamin). This will happen some time in the fourth quater of this year. I believe this has huge implecations for anyone that develops commercial sites, [...]