fordie’s Blog

I ain’t afraid of no ghost! Ever since I started blogging, I’ve been trying to come up with a good way to get html into my posts so that can write tutorials. It’s something I’ve struggled with and as an upshot – I have two or three articles that are waiting to be published that [...]

I think I’ve finally cracked the various PC issues I’ve been having – last night I reinstalled XP on my laptop (again). I’d done a reinstall last week, but I’d neglected to format the HDD first; the upshot of which was my hard disk was almost completely full of folders XP wouldn’t let me delete. [...]

A few weeks back I installed Sky Anytime on PC; since then I had noticed a considerable deterioration in the machines performance – to the point where it was almost unusable. I didn’t immediately put two and two together, I just assumed that it was time to give the laptop a bit of a spring [...]

I’ve been waiting for ages for CS3 to come out, and Today Adobe have finally released some details about it on their website. Although there’s not a lot of substance to it yet, there’s an awful lot of marketing speak on there and no trial versions yet. I’ve been using Fireworks CS3 beta and it’s [...]

Yesterday I discovered “Fring“. It’s an application that you install on your symbian powered mobile phone that allows you to make Skype and Google talk calls over the GPRS, 3G & (if your phone supports it) Wi-Fi Networks. Most nokia handsets run on the Symbian operating system, according to the Fring website you can download [...]

I’ve been accepted as a beta tester for a new version of a programme I use everyday (very exciting ;¬) ). I can’t tell you which product it is because I’m sworn to secrecy (I’m not even allowed to let anyone know about the existence of this update ), I’d quite like to get on [...]

Since the arrival of IE7 there have been a number of workarounds developed to enable designers & developers to test their site in IE6 & IE7 on the same machine. However, none of these have been entirely successful; for example the standalone version of IE6 I had installed didn’t work with html conditional comments, so [...]

I was looking the stats for this site earlier and saw that someone had come here having searched for “dreamweaver 8 ftp password registry”. I can’t be certain, but I suspect who ever it was had lost or forgotten their FTP password and was hoping to recover it from Dreamweaver. I was in the same [...]

Microsoft have just launched Photosynth an amazing new website with software that “takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space.” With Photosynth you can: Walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle. Seamlessly zoom in [...]

If like me you spend a lot of your day looking at a PC then you want it to be as easy on the easy as possible. The standard Windows XP look does get quite boring after a while, so for the last year or so I have had the Royale theme installed on both [...]