Leapfish’s domain appraisal calculator reports that my old twod.co.uk domain name is worth an astonishing $845,760.
If only..
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21.94% saying they’ll move from Virgin, whilst Apple could be making a lot of money
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This is the results so far of a poll on a story about Virgin threatening to sue Sky because they are being ridiculous over the payment discussion involving Sky One, Sky Two, Sky Sports News, Sky News and Sky travel.
Now is it just me, or would that number be considerably lower if us UK LOST, 24 and Battlestar Galactica fans could just buy the shows on iTunes in the first place? And yet today iTunes receives yet another update that only particularly benefits American users.
That said – why in the UK are we being sold Apple TV? Unless we are running a music shop that shows music videos all day long, or we have managed to find 100 video podcasts to watch of quality amongst the 5-10 or so that exist on the internet… there’s really no point in the device over here.
Sorry for the rant, but this rubbish with Sky and Virgin would never have happened if the shows weren’t so centralised onto one network in the first place. In America they have the ability to view online, iTunes, TV and TV recording to watch it from. Over here? Just Sky One, oh – and the ability to watch online, if your a Sky customer.
Note: I’ll be returning the blog back to it’s interesting state once my incredibly busy rush that has come on lately has calmed down – possibly when the new JHuskisson.com launches.
Apple support engineer fired for writing the best poem ever written
1 Comment »It’s a small break from my usual posts, but I found this video absolutely brilliant. If I was fired for doing what this guy did, I’d upload it for over 500,000 people to view too.
Brilliant PHP manual Mac app
3 Comments »I found this app just a minute ago and think it’s brilliant. The PHP Function Index (PHPfi) is a PHP documentation viewer to look up any PHP function on your mac. It requires you download the PHP manual and unzip it onto a random folder on your Mac. Once that’s done you have a instantly searchable and readable offline version of the PHP manual.
But wait it gets better, the most valuable part of the PHP manual – the user comments, are downloadable too. You can set it to update one at a time or download every set of comments for every page in the manual in only one click.
Great for offline browsing and generally brilliant if you don’t want to have wait long periods of time to find those functions your looking for. Combine this with the classic polished and clean Mac interface – and you’ve got a better alternative to the real site.
My only critism of the software is the extremely poor dock icon. It looks like a XP icon in a Mac OSX dock.
http://www.artissoftware.com/phpfi/
Could it be?
Best presentation I’ve seen yet
1 Comment »Saw this one over at Guy Kawasaki’s blog this morning and loved it. Much better than the normal business lecture and simply flowed awesomeness all the way through. I particularly liked how they measure their success in awesomeness.
If you want a video about the passion of making ‘Web Apps’ instead of the business of it, this one is for you:
Tutorialized gets a new fresh design
2 Comments »Kurt’s just given word that he’s released out to the public the new layout of Tutorialized.com – the number one tutorial listing site on the internet. I saw the layout a few weeks ago (though promised to keep it a secret) – and it’s just brilliant. It adds to the site’s great browsability and the fact that there isn’t an array of 30 additional features added to the site along with it gives tutorial seekers time to enjoy the site they know and love with a fresh new look placed upon it.
Anyone who saw the old layout knew it needed a refresh – and here it is, head on over to Tutorialized to take a look now.
You pick the review for this month
3 Comments »I’m in the last chapters of several books that I can’t seem to finish, so I thought i’d put it up for vote and see which one you guys want to hear about this month.
The choices:
- I, Woz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: Getting to the Core of Apple’s Inventor
- The Rules of Wealth: A Personal Code for Prosperity
- How to Be an Entrepreneur: The Six Secrets of Self-Made Success
I’m reading several ‘coding books’ but I’d prefer to write about these in general articles rather than single reviews that wouldn’t be all that interesting. Feel free to comment with your choice out the three and I’ll take note of it :)
Taking down digg integration tool temporarily.. here’s why
2 Comments »Dan from Tutorial-Center just told me that he can’t view the site without this password prompt popping up:
(Click here to see the full screenshot)It prompts him for username and password for http://digg.com with the prompt ‘testing’. I have no idea why so I’ve taken the tool off the site for a while until I know it’s fixed.
Edit: have sent this to the digg team.
Sub-Edit: re-enabled, digg away.Locking and password protecting your Mac whilst you are away
22 Comments »I recently found a small annoyance with my iMac in that I wanted to lock my Mac whilst I was away from it and/or not using it whilst keeping all my programs running in the background. This is of course great for keeping things like Mail downloading whilst your away, which keeps things running smoothly during the day.
Let’s start by pulling up the system preferences:
We should have course have this:
Select ‘Security’ from the Personal row, which is the sixth icon. You should now be in the ‘Security’ preference panel. Continue forth to make sure the checkboxes to the left of ‘Require password to wake this computer from sleep or screen saver’ and ‘Disable automatic login’ are checked. It should look a little something like this:
Hit the ‘view all’ button in the top left of the panel to go back to the system preferences panel and continue into the ‘Desktop & Screen Saver’ preferences panel which is also located on the Personal row of preferences, this time being the third icon in. Once it’s open click ‘Screen saver’ at the top to make sure your in the right area.
Click ‘Hot Corners’ in the bottom left, this will bring up a nice drop down sub-preferences panel. Continue forth to select a corner and select ‘Start Screen Saver’ (I’ve selected the bottom left for mine).
Once this is activated if you move your mouse into the furthest point of your selected corner the screen saver should start up. Wait a few seconds (sometimes up to ten or so) and then move your mouse to bring your Mac out of it’s screen saver mode. You should then see a password prompt for your username and password – this would mean it’s worked.
No-one can now get onto your computer unless they know your username and password to get into your account.
If you would like to expand upon this and remove the screen saver from the screen after a certain amount of minutes. Go back into your system preferences panel and select ‘Energy Saver’ which is on the Hardware row – the fourth icon.
Change your slider to whatever amount of minutes you want your display to turn off on. This will remove the screen saver from your display but keep your computer running.
Make sure ‘put computer to sleep when it is inactive for’ is set to ‘Never’ and ‘Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible’ is unchecked. This makes sure your computer won’t stop processing applications and activity in the background whilst you are away from the computer.
