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Firefox 2 and IE7 – Not Quite a Browser War

By Bish | Published: 31/10/2006 – 20:47 | Posted in Microsoft, Opinion, Personal, Software, Web, Web Design, Windows | Comments (1)

It looks as though it really is the season to be releasing a browser with the recent official release of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and the third release candidate of Firefox 2. I can’t help feeling that the much of the coverage surrounding the releases really boils down to hype with the media and blogsphere trying to build this into another browser war.A ‘war’, ‘battle’, ‘face off’ or whatever you want to label it, regardless of who is contesting , requires two fundamental factors; 2 willing contenders.

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How To: Automatically Backup Wordpress

By Bish | Published: 07/10/2006 – 21:37 | Posted in How To, Wordpress | Comments (5)

With Box.net and regular backups to DVD, I think (hope) I have covered most eventualities on my PC and disaster recovery should be a relatively straight forward process.

One of the areas I have less control over though, is the hosting of my web sites. While my hosting company has a backup solution integrated into their hosting packages there is still the risk of loosing all my hard work! Not the stuff of nightmares, I mean the risk is low but for sheer peace of mind, there is an answer.

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PhishTank – Strangely Addictive

By Bish | Published: 03/10/2006 – 21:44 | Posted in Internet, News, Opinion, Web2.0 | Comments (3)

I am not too convinced about how long I am gonna carry on doing this but I am finding PhishTank mildly addictive! PhishTank is the new website that is trying to fight back as a community against unscrupulous sites that are involved in phishing.

PhishTank is a collaborative clearing house for data and information about phishing on the Internet. Also, PhishTank provides an open API for developers and researchers to integrate anti-phishing data into their applications at no charge.

What will be very interesting to see will be how the community grows and how their API is utilized. A wordpress plugin anyone?

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How to: Configure Gmail on your K800i……

By Bish | Published: 24/09/2006 – 21:40 | Posted in How To, Software, Technology | Comments (32)

……or most other phones for that matter.

With the screen mysteriously dying on my w800i, I ~~decided~~ was forced to upgrade early. It turns out not to be a bad thing and can honestly say I am really impressed with the K800i. The camera is first class, the ui quick and well designed and the hit on size and weight I have taken compared to the w800 is bearable. This truly is the first 3G phone that I would consider having after all the bricks I have seen my friends with.

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Crazy Egg Finally Goes Live!

By Bish | Published: 21/08/2006 – 23:31 | Posted in Design, News, Opinion, Software, Technology, Web Design, Web2.0 | Comments (1)

CrazyEgg Logo Crazy Egg has finally opened its doors to the public after what feels like a long closed beta session. I had the good fortune to unofficially test the product probably 3 or 4 months back now and was impressed by service as a whole though, at the time, performance was less than real time. For those that don’t know, Crazy Egg offers some great usability testing of your site, allowing you to see how people react to different layouts and styles for example. By monitoring people’s interactions with your site, it logs statistics on hotspots that can be displayed on great looking heat maps helping you to analise the usage of your site. Previously this sort of testing and monitoring would consume large resources or be sourced out to independent usablilty specialists but now can be implemented very quickly and easily by dropping in some JavaScript into your (x)html.