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Perhaps it’s just the time of year but I was on the internets amazing Wayback machine if you haven’t checked it out you really should. Its a archive of snapshots of the internet as it was throughout the last 13+ years its been running.

My site is listed on there as far back as 2004 when I think I first registered it, with my mum and sister present we picked the name as a place for all our emails. Later I took over the running and it caused more than a couple of family arguments when I switched hosts/email services, before settling with Google Apps which is amazing also!

So whats this post about?

Not much to be honest, I just wanted to point out that I had been through all the archived pages I could find on there and imported all the missing posts that I could find, and dated them correctly. In places there is content missing and it is noted so for example links to Digg or incomplete posts.

Anyway feel free to have a look at my archive as its quite extensive although reading it my self supprisingly poor quality. I have throughout time has 3 or 4 different WordPress installations each time wiping the content as I flipped back and forth in opinion as to wheather it was better to re-invent the wheel and write my own CMS or not.

I have finally settled on WordPress and now I felt it was a good time to integrate all my old posts…. MANUALLY!

Anyway enjoy the read if you can be bothered and thanks to ling_ling of the Flickr community for the photo used.

I recently was reading TUAW when I discovered an amazing little app by a small company called Irradiated Software. The application is called Cinch, and its truly worth every penny of its measly $7 price tag. The application makes it a ‘cinch’ to resize windows on Mac OS X by simply dragging a window to the left or right of the screen it will make it fill the respective 50% of the screen, allowing you to line two windows up side by side in about 5 seconds max. Even better is the ability to fullscreen a window by dragging it to the top. The application saves all that messing about most Mac users accepted when they switched. Its been one of the few things Mac was really missing from its feature set.

These features may sound familiar though? Thats because they are, in fact these features directly emulate the Snap feature of the newly released Windows 7, and were in fact one of the few features which I really longed for in Mac OS X. So whilst perhaps the features aren’t original the application is a great utility and no one could fault it for what it does.

A couple of small niggles though if I really did dig deep. The Aero Shake feature has not been replicated, this feature allowed you to shake the window to expose the desktop, however, I am not particularly bothered as the Cmd+F3 key does the same thing with a feature called Exposé, and did it before Windows 7 was even a glimmer in Microsoft’s eye. The other niggle is simply that the application stutters when animating the dashed box it draws to show you how the window will be resized, this isn’t a major issue and has been reported so I hope that it will be fixed eventually, that said these niggles are not going to put me off telling everyone I know about this absolutely amazing application.

p.s. Another nice feature would be to move the MenuExtra at the top into a System Preference pane as the MenuExtra add’s little functionality that I would ever need but does clutter an already busy part of my screen.

Source: TUAW

I was lucky enough to meet an iPhone developer instore today who worked on an application for getting movie times. It’s great!

The app is called movie times! And it’s free on the app store. It’s way better thank flickster or what ever it’d called. The apps icon isn’t great not is the name but the UI is brilliant.

I really like it. It very reminisent of the delicious apps and especially the style of MadeBySofa and also TapBots.

I love the little flip clock style dates and the pop up facebook integration.

The only bug bear I have is speed. It’s as slow as a dog and it’s not just the Internet connection it just hangs for several seconds betwen screens after you click with no suggestion anything is happening.

I know I don’t have an iPhone 3GS but this is no excuse. I think it’s all the custom ui element whch I was just praising so much that make it slow but I want the best of both worlds with out upgrading.

Common guys hurry up!

My final proble. Is there is no support to buy tickets on the phone rendering it as just another film times app. I love it but I don’t think I’ll keep it on my homescreen.

So I released my first WordPress plugin recently called ‘Broadcast MU‘ – Thanks Luke!

Its actually for WordPress MU (Multi-user) and it allows you to post the same post to multiple blogs, you can read up more on it here.

I hope people find it useful and it is a great opportunity for me to learn more about PHP and WordPress MU, it was developed because there was no similar plugin available for WPMU and we needed it for GDNM.org a site I have been managing for UCA Epsom’s Graphic Design: New Media and Graphic Design courses/departments.

I haven’t blogged it till now but I recently got my work awarded by D&AD with the in-book status in their student awards 2009.

Check it out here… linky

I am in Computer Arts Graduates Show Case 2009

I am really happy with my result as its borderline 1st and I have been told by some people that a first is not necessarily as good because it means you have concentrated too much on the grade and not enjoyed your time at university, I am not sure I believe that but still I can apply for MAs and other stuff and feel proud with my degree!

I think I may go to one of these although I don’t know how to get involved, anyone have any ideas or know how?

Tonight me and Claire my house mate baked brownies for my lecturer’s and specifically Ray my skills support lecturer who has helped me a lot over the past 3 years.

You can find the recipe here: Stuff yer bake – Gooey Brownies

It seems like Maplin will open just in time for me and my house mate Mike to leave Epsom as they open on the 20th of June according to Sade who replied to my previous post.

I will try to make it along just incase there is some kind of opening sale, deals or give-aways.

Sadly I have to leave Epsom at the end of July when my tenancy runs out because not enough people are staying in Epsom that we could share a house. My self and Mike are considering sharing but until he has a job in the bag that cannot be relied on either.