Darren Beale

SEO considerations for a Flash website

9. October 2006

In 1997/8 (whenever it was) I got really excited by Flash 3 coming out; I even went to a do at the Islington Design centre (UK/London) where Macromedia pimped it (showing eye4U and Gabocorp, remember them?) and I got a free pen, woo. I played with it for a while, writing a cartoon strip called [...]

Who the hell is Michelle Salazar?

2. October 2006

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Amonsgt the normal deluge of Spam for Penis enlargment techniques, dodgy drugs and girls that want to fzuc!k m3 n0w, I’m getting plenty of emails with the name “Michelle Salazar” in the subject. Why is this? I’ve found this artists website: http://michellesalazar.com/ but that’s obviously unrelated. I shall do some more digging and report back.

JigsawUK

14. September 2006

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I came across JigsawUK just now after following a link from The Multipack’s blog. According to their front page it is: …a wiki for young British digital media companies and organisations to: * Showcase new Internet and mobile projects * Advertise digital media jobs * Announce events and [...]

iTunes 7 and a slight screw up

12. September 2006

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Apple launched loads of new stuff today: Something about smallest ipod Somthing about bigger ipods Something about the medium ipods being bigger, but smaller and lasting longer New iTunes, does some new stuff Whilst I was waiting for iTunes 7 to “Determine Gapless Palyback Information” over my 75Gb of music I had a very brief click around their propoganda. For [...]

Midlands interweb groups

22. August 2006

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I’ve only been living in the midlands for a few months now but have already found two promising groups: The Multi Pack and PHP West Midlands. Multipack seems to be a bit more designery but they are organised, have a great website and put on meet-ups. It seems that some of the organisers are also involved [...]

Google reader

20. July 2006

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I stumbled across the beta Google reader just now and it looks really good. If you, like me, don’t subscribe to loads of RSS feeds because you always have too many other apps open and already don’t have enough hours in the day then maybe Google Reader is for you too. Here’s how they describe it: Spend your time [...]

Performancing: The perfect Blogging Firefox extension?

26. May 2006

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I’ve been playing with my Firefox extensions this morning as I recently re-installed windows at home and wanted to make sure that it had all of the essentials that I use at work. So this led me to ‘waste’ 15 mins browsing the Extensions repository and I came up with a real find, Performancing: Performancing for [...]

Change Firefox keyboard shortcuts

26. May 2006

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I recently installed a Firefox extension (Firebug) that hijacked the F12 shortcut that was being used by (Firefox Showcase). Thanks to keyconfig I was able to fiddle around and change the assignments, which was nice.

Wordpress spam plugin

21. May 2006

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After getting over 200 comment spams in 2 days I decided to implement an automatic spam blacklist system as manual parsing wasn’t cutting it any more. Akismet seems good: We can’t stand spam. Who can? You have better things to do with your life than deal with the underbelly of the internet. Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is [...]

A few of my favorite net things

17. May 2006

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It’s a bit long but quote good: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gCOvY45FhsE&search=linux

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