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Make skype calls from your nokia mobile
Yesterday I discovered “Fring“. It’s an application that you install on your symbian powered mobile phone that allows you to make Skypeand 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 the… Read note →
Good golly miss Molly!
Molly E. Holzschlag knows her stuff; She’s been working in the webstandards arena since before there was even an arena to work in! I’ve seen her speak a couple of times, first at CSS for designers back in 2005 and then last year at @media 2006 where she spoke about internationalisation. Molly never fails to… Read note →
That was painless!
I just update this site to WordPress 2.1 (Ella). The entire process took under ten minutes and so far, eveything seems to be working as it should! This is the first WP update I’ve bothered with and I’m not sure how many of the new features I’ll use (I already have a spell checker in… Read note →
Creating your own wordpress theme
It was never my intention to use an existing wordpress theme for this blog. My original plan was to build a theme myself, however a combination of time pressure & a creative mental block meant that I ended up with a theme that I’d downloaded (albeit slightly modified). My biggest stumbling block was that all… Read note →
Announcing markford.me.uk
My blog posts are like buses, you get none for ages then three come along at once. I’ve just launched a new website all about me: markford.me.uk The new site will not replace this one, I’ll still continue to blog here; markford.me.uk is more for people who want to know about my background and maybe… Read note →
Web Accessability Petition
It’s not like me to post anything political, but I’ll make an exception for this. In the UK the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) covers access to services for disabled people; the part of the act that covers websites came into force in 1999. The act states that “reasonable adjustments” to ensure that their service is… Read note →
@media 2007 registration is open!
I just got this email from those lovely folks at vivabit: The @media 2007 web site has just been launched, and you can now register to attend: http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2007/europe/ Taking place on June 7th and 8th, this year the bar will be raised and web design and development best practices will be pushed that one step… Read note →
Family update
Time has just flown by over the past few weeks; Erin is now over a month old and is doing really well. Generally she is only up for one feed during the night, however that can take anything up to two hours which has taken some getting used too. She still seems to be putting… Read note →
Adobe launch CSS Advisor Beta
Adobe have launched a new community website with the aim of: Finding solutions to CSS and browser compatibility issues Sharing solutions and workarounds you’ve discovered with the community Allowing the community to comment on and improve existing solutions CSS Advisor will apparently be integrated into the next version of Dreamweaver which (according to Sitepoint) is… Read note →
I’m a beta male!
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… Read note →