Default search engine in Ubuntu Firefox
Ubuntu will be switching their default search engine from Google to Yahoo in the next release (v10.04) because they have struck a deal where they will get a cut of the money made whenever a user clicks on a advert after doing a search. The only reason that this is interesting is that Yahoo search […]
greekislandpropertyfinders.co.uk
We have just finished and published greekislandpropertyfinders.co.uk which is a modified clone of http://www.heidijoycegardens.com. Technical details of site: The site is written in PHP using WordPress as a development framework. Uses the 1KB CSS grid framework. Uses Jquery including the anything slider and Galleria. The site has a newsletter sign-up form written as a WordPress […]
WordPress Tag Cloud – How to cap the font size
On the Bitvolution WordPress theme, the sidebar is quite small (only 220px) and the default WordPress tag cloud widget was producing tags that were clipped in a ugly manner. By default, the WordPress tag cloud widget has a maximum font size of 22px so I was looking for a way to reduce it. Note: If […]
Firefox 3.6 opacity crash in Linux
A website that I was working on suddenly started crashing Firefox 3.6 on my PC (Ubuntu 9.10, 64bit). I’m talking a full out hang with 100% CPU usage and a frozen mouse and keyboard and the only way to recover is to remote login from a 2nd PC and kill the Firefox process. I found […]
Wii Super Mario Bros (Christmas present from Fred, Charlie & Rose)
I didn’t play much single player but we found this game really fun in multiplayer mode, especially 4 player – you have to work together otherwise it’s chaos. I liked the “bubble mode”, it’s like a get out of jail free but without making it feel like cheating.
