Free Style Themes for Project Seven’s Pop Menu Magic 2

January 4th, 2009

Today, 4th January 2009, the team at PVII (www.projectseven.com) are announcing the release of  free style themes for their automated menu creation plugin for Adobe Dreamweaver, Pop Menu Magic 2. When it comes to the creation and management of multi-level or single level CSS-based menus, they have created the ultimate tool. Whether you want to [...]

Wildfire - A Quick Start Manual (PDF)

January 2nd, 2009

In my post Christmas tidy up I came across a long time favorite, the quick start guide for the Wildfire telephone service from Wildfire Communications, Inc. In my habit, of late, to post non-existent manuals online for others to benefit, I have done so with this.
The table of contents reads as follows:

Try This First
Getting Help
Starting [...]

Is It Possible to Trace Gmail?

December 31st, 2008

The sweet and short answer to your question is no, but of course the reality is more of a grey area. To lengthen the answer a little, there is no easy and sure fire way to find out the origin of a gmail sent email, but there are some means, and of course always the [...]

Camping, Fishing & Picnics near Six Flags Great America

December 31st, 2008

If you are heading to Six Flags Great America at Gurnee, IL this summer, and you are looking for a campground to stay at, then you might want to look at staying at Fish lake Beach Resort. It is the perfect place to visit and stay.
Just 13 miles away from SF Great America, and 40 [...]

Nikkai A52HF Digital Receiver & Recorder Manual

December 30th, 2008

Having written my review o the Nikkai A52HF, I can see that a bunch of people are search online for the manual and seem to be out of luck. I have therfore spliced my paper copy and put it through a duplex document scanner. So here it is:

Download the A52HF manual in PDF.

Retro Digital Photography - The ION-Mac 560 from Canon

December 30th, 2008

Here’s a little piece of retro chic for you as we come to the cusp on 2008-2009. The ION-Mac 560 still video system from Canon that brought a whole new dimension to computer imaging.
Back in 1992 the ION RC-560 was Canon’s top of the line Still Video camera, capturing images onto 2-inch reusable and interchangeable [...]

Default Email Problems: When 2 Emails are Not The Same!

December 30th, 2008

Recently, a client encountered problems when trying to send out and receive emails from the default email account in CPanel. That is to say that they were trying to send out email from an email account that happened to match the username for that account. The only problem was that when the remote smtp server [...]

Suffering Eye Strain and Finding Solutions

December 29th, 2008

Back some 6 months ago or more, I wrote a piece about eye strain and how to try and avoid it. This was pretty much because I myself had come to the very stark realization that I was facing, not just the symptoms of, but the effects of eye strain. If you have done any reading up on the topic you will know that this includes anything from itching eyes, to blurred vision, added light sensitivity, and more. That was 6 months ago.

Learn Cocoa Programming Using Objective-C

December 27th, 2008

A quick look at some of the options available for learning Cocoa Programming with Objective-C. The range of options include the FREE eBook “BecomeAnXcoder” from cocoalab.com and commercial and free videos on YouTube and from The Pragmatic Programmers imprint. It is now easier than ever to learn Objective-C and start coding for the OSX desktop and iPhone or iPod Touch.

Setting Up Email for Talk Talk Broadband

December 23rd, 2008

When setting up your email for Talk Talk Broadband you need to establish it as a POP3 account in your email client, be it Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird or whatever else. The rest of the details are as follows:
Talk Talk Email Settings

E-mail address: username@talktalk.net
Reply-to address: username@talktalk.net
Incoming mail Sever: mail.talktalk.net
Incoming mail account type: POP3
Incoming mail [...]