I only need to cast my mind back a day or two in my web history to remember the web the way it was. Way back in 1994 I tried to start a music sharing website for christian music – I even had some chats with big radio stations and such like, but the web [...]
I know I know it’s been a little while since I actually blogged here – yeah I write things from time to time but what am I writing? What am I doing here?
Goals, Targets and Celebrations
If you want something in life, most people will tell you “set a goal” have a target, reach it, celebrate [...]
Tonight I’ve been having a play around with WolframAlpha … it’s not really due to go live until Monday US time, but they are doing some load testing and other bits over the next couple of days. If you are lucky, you might just find it running.
So what is WolframAlpha?
Well to be honest, there are [...]
Fonts & typefaces are great fun, and they can transition from being simply copy to becoming art themselves. Here is a collection of over 32 fonts to bring some fun to your design.
I’m playing around a bit with CakePHP again today … and for some reason a few things REALLY did my head in. Like REALLY did my head in.
Stupid really because about a year ago I built a full web solution in CakePHP with users, ACL, AUTH and all that stuff – and deployed it. I [...]
Traffic – websites live and breathe with it – without, well we might as well all pack up and go home. I’ve increased traffic to studiowhiz.com by .. well a ton recently. The past week has seen this site having over 70,000 unique visitors stop by.
How do you do it? Well traditionally it’s hard to [...]
I have a few friends who are swapping from long time Windows usage to Mac usage. There are a couple of things they do on the Mac that … well they could do better. First up they load up the dock with EVERY single application & secondly they rely on the mouse to much for [...]
Fonts have come a long way, today’s designers are looking more and more for fonts that are full of life, with subtleties of space and shape. Fonts are as much about what’s not there as what is.
This collection celebrates the clean modern fonts, that give a striking elegance to any page, with bold lines, white [...]
Well the original 13 Twitter accounts you NEED to follow was so popular (and contraversial – “why wasn’t I on your list when XYZ was?”) I figured – You know what? I actually do follow a heap of really cool folks, so without further ado, lets get into it.
Shel Israel
Silicon Valley insider who writes for [...]
You can save huge amounts of cash when it comes to Mac Software. You can pick up some fantastic apps for really cheap and hey you probably end up with apps that you’ve never heard of but can’t live without.
So … three steps to saving $519 on software:
visit www.studiowhiz.com (oh, well you’ve done that)
visit MacHeist [...]
Nature, it’s all around us all the time and yet we are often moving through life at such a pace we completely and utterly miss what’s around us. From the city the mountains, garden to meadow here is a collection of truly incredible nature photos.
Simply click the image to go through to the full [...]
I love fonts, I love typography & if there was one area of design I wish I could improve on it’d be typography. What I love about fonts is their ability to at one time be both informative in language and yet artistic in layout. Fonts give words the ability to become art.
Here are a [...]
Today Apple showed a sneak peak at what is coming in the iPhone 3.0 software updated (read iTalk Magazines list of iPhone 3.0 updates).
I recently had a chat with a friend here in the office. A while back I won myself an iPhone & around the same time my friend bought herself an HTC Touch [...]
You might think that I’m not qualified to write a post about why I think Facebook sucks – and rewind two weeks and you’d be right. Sure I’d created some account many moons ago for me to dabble with, but after rumors of CIA involvement and other “conspiracies” I decided that was enough for me.
Recently [...]
Hulu.com – if you don’t know what it is, it’s a great online service for watching TV. At least that’s the premise. You can watch your favourite TV shows online. View all the old Simpsons episodes, view all the episodes when you want.
It sounds wicked, and I applied very early on for the beta and [...]
