Reading time: < 1 min I run a double height taskbar at work, and I’ve been looking for a way to control iTunes from the taskbar. By chance I found the following – may be common knowledge but it’s new to me. 1. Right click your taskbar. 2. Select Toolbars > iTunes. 3. Start iTunes and minimise it. Note: You…
Reading time: 2 mins Finishing work late has it’s advantages namely a nice quiet train and a relaxing journey home. Unfortunately someone had forgotten to tell the three “ladies wot lunch” who got on and proceeded to shriek, giggle and bitch through the entire journey home. Even as I got off the train, headed up the stairs and the…
Reading time: 4 mins It’s been a while since I posted about Firefox but as it’s just crashed through the 24 million downloads mark, and has increased it’s browser share AGAIN I thought it was reasonable time to look back over the past year of using Firefox and see how, if at all, it has changed my browsing habits.…
Reading time: < 1 min A quick glance at the posts I currently have in draft reminds me that I’m kinda busy at the moment. Most of them are almost finished, a couple are still in the idea stage. Information Design and the Web – two part article Simplicity Achieved? – a pondering on the flock of new simple applications,…
Reading time: 2 mins Christmas has passed. As has St. Valentine’s Day. Next up is Easter but I say we just cancel it this year. And every coming year as well. And not just Easter. Let’s be done with the lot of them. Mother’s Day, out you go! Father’s Day, scrubbed from the calendar! Be Nice To The 17th…
Reading time: < 1 min Despite waffling on about it, I don’t have a new stereo. In fact as of last week I don’t have an old stereo either. I won’t be replacing it as I have a surround sound DVD system which happily plays CDs, MP3 CDs and accepts an input from the iPod (although at some point it’ll…