I have just combined my love for both Led Zepellin and my iPhone by making a wallpaper in Photoshop. Feel free to download it and use it yourself!
The best way I’ve found to keep all your wallpapers tidy is just to create an album called iPhone Wallpapers in iPhoto then tick it for sync in iTunes.
Left click the image to the left to preview the image, and right click / ctrl click download linked file / save target as to save it to your computer.
I was until fairly recently a Windows user, the only reason being because of the ubiquitous nature of the software when I was first getting into computers. My decision to move to Mac was based on a very delicate and ingenious advertising campaign by Apple that I failed to recognise until after I had spent close to two and half thousand pounds on their products. Don’t get me wrong though, even though I’m conscious of this wrangling of my own will by a corporate giant, I still embrace it lovingly. read more…
I’ve just finished work on the NanoWhat? website. It was built for East Midlands Development Agency and Nottingham University to promote education in nanotechnology with school children. There are some really interesting little bits in there, and my favourite is the Invent! section where you can create your own nano invention that will be included on the website (if it’s good enough.)
Expression Engine ships with no URL rewriting, and that means that every page on your expression engine website will be prefixed with index.php. To remove the .index.php from each page you’ll need to do some URL rewriting. Expression Engine have some documents detailing how to remove index.php on their website, but they don’t cover if you’re hosting your site from a subdirectory (www.mysite.com/subdirectory/expressionengine/)
To remove index.php from your pages, just create a file in the root of your expression engine install called .htaccess. This will tell Apache how to rewrite the url to remove the offending prefix. Here’s how to do that: read more…
jQuery is damned powerful there’s no doubt about it, but it’s a swine to get started with and the documentation was written by nerds for nerds. The shameful thing is, it doesn’t need to be so hard. I’ve recently made use of a drag / drop style list that will remember the order of the list.
If you use the standard jQuery sortable items, you’ll get the two following problems:
You won’t be able to click on any items in the sortable list you have
You’ll probably want an update of the order of the list after every change.
I did find a solution to the problem over at Scott Sauyet’s site, but I needed a little more… The following example will do both, it uses the handle and update options on the .sortable item. By adding these simple items you can produce a pretty advanced sortable list. You could even add AJAX into that update command and automatically update your database with the new values every time you change then removing the need to refresh, and that’s very web 2.0.
I was recently looking for a way to upload large images for the web and automatically create different sizes (small, medium and large.) The only viable way to do it is with Java because it can all be done client side. If you do the work server side, you’ll be uploading a large file then using a lot of processor power to resize it.
I’ve tried a few and the one that came out on top was the JumpLoader it’s good looking, functional and customisable. When uploading several versions of an image at different sizes though it will zip them up (for transfer purposes,) you’ll then have to unzip them - here’s the PHP to do that.
Here’s the final rendering of a piece I did whilst studying at NTU. I shot the live action parts against a green screen and built the scenes in 3D Studio Max. read more…
When building this site, I toyed with the idea of using the domain (and moreover the ethos) of geekalicious. The fact that I didn’t in the end is neither here nor there, but I think it had something to do with the fact that noone really knows what it means. There are a few oblique definitions out there on the web, but I’m inclined to disagree with them all: they’re just missing the point. So here, is a fully qualified description / definition of Geekalicious:
Geek·a·li·cious [geek-uh-lish-us]
Adjective
Pocessing or pertaining to a technically and / or creatively resplendent quality.
Specifically (but not reserved to) the pleasing of geeks.
Alias for - Wil Linssen (that’s Wil, not Will or William.)
I have just combined my love for both Led Zepellin and my iPhone by making a wallpaper in Photoshop. Feel free to download it and use it yourself!
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I was recently looking for a way to upload large images for the web and automatically create different sizes (small, medium and large.) The only viable way to do it is with Java because it can all be done client side. If you do the work server side, you’ll be uploading a large file then using a lot of processor power to resize it.
