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Auto Adjusting Screen Lighting by time of day

If you’re like a lot of people who work on the web and end up developing, programming, or fiddling with graphics until after dark, then the likelihood is you’re giving your eyes a hard time, and/or the...

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Symfony Tests: Enabling Color (colour) Output for Windows

I’ve seen many confusing posts on how to enable colour output for Symfony testing on Windows. This was pretty straightforward in the end for my Windows 7 x64 machine. First, download and install...

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Ditto Free Clipboard Manager

If you’re after a lightweight, highly configurable clipboard manager for Windows 7 (x64 in my case) then Ditto could be for you. xNeat seems to not be compatible with Windows 7 x64 at the time of...

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How to Create Symlinks In Windows

Nice and easy step to help with those of us on Windows / Wamp / similar setups.Works nicely for me with Wampserver 2.0, Win 7 x64.See the post here

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Firefox DOM inspector

Here’s one that was a ‘doh’ moment for me – wish I’d found it sooner. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dom-inspector-6622/ If you’re messing around with web apps / php / apache / mysql /...

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Measure It and FoxGuide Firefox Plugins

Handy little plugin for Firefox that allows you to drag on the browser window to check the width and height of your layout. Measure It – useful if you want to quickly check widths to tweak your css...

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Netbeans 6.9.1, Netbeans 7 beta, Scanning Projects….

If like me you use Netbeans 6.9.1 as your IDE, you probably already installed Scan on Demand to stop Netbeans choking up while scanning projects… That (unfortunately) stopped working today.  So I...

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Top Tip For Customising Magento E-commerce

Trying to find the right file to add / edit your latest Magento e-commerce website? Login as Admin, go System > Configuration Top left you see ‘Current Configuration Scope’ – choose ‘Main Website’...

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Internet Explorer 9 is Here

Touted as being faster, more streamlined and simplified, is Internet Explorer 9 gonna make me spurn Firefox? Ah.  Not so quick.  Just went to download for Windows 7 x64.  Downloaded.  Ran the install....

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Firefox 4

Good grief.  I dip into some code for 5 minutes one day….then a few weeks later when I see the light of day again, not only is IE9 out, but there’s a Firefox 4?

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The Geek In All of Us

From the overwhelming initial information on what a geek is, I still am struggling to get the true picture of one. The only thing I am sure of at this point is that it is a slang or informal term. The...

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Common Web Design Flaws That Affect Usability

Web users go to the Internet to learn, communicate or be entertained in the most efficient way possible. Most Internet surfers are familiar only with clicking buttons, arrows, mouses, search boxes or...

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3 Web and SEO Tips Any Business Owner Can Do Themselves – Monthly Tips From 123

So, let’s get cracking  Here are 3 tips that any business owner can achieve without throwing their PC (or Mac) through the window:  they run from super-easy at #1, to more advanced by #3. (See our...

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What Browser Do You Use? Firefox, Chrome, or Internet Explorer.

Just checked my stats and noticed that the popularity of Browsers is as follows: #1 Firefox #2 Chrome #3 Internet Explorer Chrome has about a 13% lead on IE according to these stats.  Heh-heh! Anyone...

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Insights On A Minimalistic Web Design

In a web culture where everything and anything is available at the Internet, often cheap and sometimes free, minimalistic web design is seemingly taking a back seat. In my recent searches, I stumbled...

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Flash Web Design – Is It Good For SEO?

A flash web design features animation, video and interactivity in its web pages. It is a recipe for entertainment because it provides attractive visual effects to a website’s visitors. It is an ideal...

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123 Webdesign: One Stop Shop for Online Businesses

Are you an aspiring businessman trying to climb your way up to the top of the market mountain? If you are, then you better keep reading because what follows may change the way you see things regarding...

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Page Speed & Image Sprites

If you’re concerned about the speed that your web page loads at then this is a great tool: Sprite Me makes it super simple to sprite up images with a little Bookmark tool. Excellent for sites that...

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3 Tips For Business Owners – Monthly Tips #2

So, let’s get cracking  Here are 3 tips that any business owner can benefit from without throwing their PC (or Mac) through the window: (See our other tips here.) #1 – Google +1 is here! If you haven’t...

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Quick & Easy Tips For Business Owners – Monthly Tips #3

So, let’s get cracking  In last month’s Tips, we showed you Google +1, Dropbox and 1Password.  Some amazing benefits to small business owners in that lot. I might even get the T-shirts. This month we...

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