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Another blog full of articles that I admit should probably never have been written in the first place. If I want to waste my time wrting them that's my choice for me to regret later in life. I hold no responsibility for the sense of dissapointment you may feel. However if you find something useful, fun or informative - you're totally welcome.

Skype + Dropbox = Free Collaborative Toolkit

For the past few weeks I’ve been using Skype and Dropbox to work remotely with another designer and it’s worked out well, almost like been in the same room.

The Importance of Compositing (+ After Effects Project Download)

Nick Campbell (greyscalegorilla) breaks down one of my After Effects project files, layer by layer.

80′s Kids Cartoon Intro

Anyone who sheds a tear of joy for happy childhood memories any time they hear the phrase “Eye of Thundera, give me sight beyond sight!” should recognise the inspiration behind this.

WordPress Tip: Get the ID of page’s parent page

A useful WordPress snippet using the get_post_ancestors() function to retrieve the ID of a page’s parent page

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A Good Spam Squisher

In this case the spam squisher in question is called Simple Spam Filter for WordPress, and so far it’s been more effective at eliminating cerain types of spam to my blog than any other plugin.

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FreshBooks adds Google Checkout support

After much deliberation about whether or not to use one of the many fancy online invoicing apps available to make my life that little bit easier, I ended up giving FreshBooks a go…

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Picasa Photo Viewer

What is Picasa Photo Viewer? Well, like it says on the screen shot down below it’s a fast, powerful image viewer for viewing image and photos directly from Windows Explorer.

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WP Admin Quicklinks Plugin

WP Admin Quicklinks is a very simple little WordPress plugin I wrote that adds an intelligent, unobtrusive little admin panel to the top-right of all your site’s pages and posts.

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Alternatives to Lorem Ipsum

If you’ve been designing web or print for any amount of time, chances are you’ve used your fair share of Lorem dummy text. Chances are you’re also probably getting a little bored of it – and who doesn’t like a little choice these days anyway.

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PageRank goes up, search results go down

I noticed the PageRank of the home page of this site had gone up from 2/10 to 3/10. Not that significant, but it shows that I’m doing something right with the SEO bits and pieces I’m trying.

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Three thousand miles per gallon

Last weekend I bought myself a new toy, a shiny new Kona Blast ’08 mountain bike…

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An exercise in SEO

How I’m going to (hopefully) get this site bumped up the Google search results, using key-phrases like Freelance 3D Design in Leeds and various other SEO tips and tricks I’ve learnt along the way.

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A good laptop for a graphic designer

Before you shout ‘MacBook Pro!’ – that was way out of the budget I’d set myself (less than £800 if I could manage it), so out of the question from the start. Sorry Apple, maybe next time.

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FFFFOUND!

The idea is really simple, it’s an image bookmarking site. You find an image on the Internet that you like, you click on a link in your browsers favourites and the image is sent to your FFFFOUND! ‘gallery’, so you can keep them all in one handy place.