The more I break into the Student world, particularly with the Microsoft Student Partners programme and getting ever closer to University I am finding more and more perks and free stuff available, so here’s a few you should check out! (If you’re a young hip student of course). Naturally most of these focus on software…
Easy WordPress Widget Builder
I had a bit of a dilemma today as I needed to create a widget to house the BT.com widget (which you can now see on the sidebar) and for this I decided the easiest way would be to knock up a standalone plugin for this. While looking into this I discovered a very handy little WordPress…
What do you mean my “contact list is full”?
Just had an unexpected problem with Windows Live Messenger (MSN)… apparently I have too many friends? This is stupid! I don’t want to have to keep removing one friend to add another! 🙁
Geek, Nerd, Dork. What they really mean…
Now I do tend to be that person who has a very clear defined definition of what a Geek, Nerd and Dork are and what it means. Lets be clear, call me a dork or nerd and I will be offended – I’m a GEEK! Right so here’s what they all mean… In a nice…
New Aims–University
It has been a while since I posted a personal post, but I think it’s time to post a bit of an update. The major one is I now have my sights firmly set on University, with a particular aim for The University of Reading. Previously I had been a little adverse to the idea…
How to disable WordPress wp-cron
[ad name=”postsqrRight”]Recently I have been noticing that this blog has been eating its way through the servers ram like no bodies business, easily using more than 150mb before its automatically killed. By default the wp-cron.php is run every single time a page is loaded, this includes admin pages. This can lead if you have a…
Don’t trust a host with Magic hard drives
Today a friend approached me telling me how another host has some fantastic offerings so I checked them out… Apparently you can get 400GB diskspace, 10TB bandwidth on a shared dual-core with up to 100 other people! I thought this was incredible so naturally I spoke to one of the sales team on how they…
New Twitter – The Review
I was intrigued to see that I seem to be one of the few selected to view the new version of Twitter… So why don’t we take a look? So as you can see got a nice banner to view the new version. Once we click this we are presented with the new twitter design with a overlay…
My Nan, a Laptop and an annoying sales man in Currys
So yesterday I had to take a train (because cars out of action) to Portsmouth to see my Nan as she’s just has broadband installed so needed to update her Antiquated old PC with an Ethernet card and run updates as well as buying her a nice little laptop. You know, to get her on the line. Now the…
My new mobile
Just a quick post to check out what it is like to blog using the android wordpress app on my new LG inTouch Max mobile! I will proberly be posting a full review of the phone and probably some comments about tmobile too… but for now i shall keep it short. So far i like…