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23 Nov 2012

Experiments With 3D Printing

When I was 13 I saw Toy Story at the cinema – and I instantly knew that 3d art was what I wanted to do. I had always been a doodler – I liked drawing cartoons and inventing things. I...
19 Nov 2012

Jetpack: The Ultimate WordPress Plugin?

A Jetpack I’ve now got 2 themes on WordPress.com – Mimbo Pro and Opti – and as such I have spent quite a lot of time on the site. WordPress.com is powered by WordPress – but it also has a...
15 Nov 2012

Caseable – Customizable iPad Cases and More…

I am so clumsy, and I am currently living in what can only be described as a building site. Last year my wife and I bought our first house and we have been renovating it ever since. Because of the...
11 Nov 2012

Clearing CSS Floats Without Markup

This has done the rounds loads of times before – but clearing css floats is something I need to do all the time, and since I have to look up the code on every project I thought I would add...
31 Oct 2012

Grovember – Raising Awareness of Bowel Cancer

A few months after I met Jo, who is now my wife, she said that she thought I looked good with a beard. Since this meant I didn’t have to shave, and since it got the thumbs up from my...
27 Oct 2012

Browser Shots WordPress Plugin

I didn’t realise it had been so long but in February 2010 I wrote a little blog post about creating screenshots of websites automatically.I wrote this after finding that the team at WordPress had created their own system for doing...
23 Oct 2012

WordPress Pagination with Custom WordPress Queries

I don’t remember the last time I made a WordPress theme that didn’t do all sorts of unique stuff. I’ve never been interested in making standard blog designs and always want to create something a bit different. This throws up...
17 Oct 2012

WordPress Social Network Aggregation

I really like the idea of a Tumblog – and even have one on Tumblr.com – but I don’t promote it anywhere. Conceptually it’s great – but I don’t like not having control over my content.What I would really like...
05 Oct 2012

Virgin TV Anywhere – the future of Television?

The way we watch television is changing. There’s a lot of talk about the multi screen experience – watching tv from your sofa while surfing the Internet on your iPad/ laptop. And television broadcasting companies are noticing. They’re also noticing...
24 Sep 2012

iPhone 5 and the Golden Age of Computing

I found the reactions after the iPhone 5 announcement last week really interesting. Everyone knew the iPhone 5 was coming, and all the rumour blogs had announced almost everything presented. Before it started we knew many of the announcements. So...
08 Sep 2012

Quick Tips: Taking Screenshots on a Mac

I take a lot of screenshots on my Mac – for all sorts of reasons. Often it’s screenshots of web pages that I am going to draw over or modify for mockups. Sometimes it’s screen shots of bugs that need...
04 Sep 2012

7 Uknown Mac Apps You Might Find Helpful

I converted to Mac a couple of years ago – and am now a bit of a fanboy. Over the last couple of years I’ve been scouring the interwebs looking for the best apps to make my Mac usage even...
30 Aug 2012

Internet Explorer 7: Should We Stop Supporting it?

Internet Explorer 6 is finally dying a death. It’s been a really long time coming, but it seems to be widely accepted that we – as web designers – no longer support it. That’s fine, but what about the rest?...
15 Aug 2012

My 3D Art Portfolio

I moved house last year and we’ve slowly been going through the boxes of junk weeding out the rubbish when, a couple of days ago, I found my old video game art portfolio.I must have made this in 2002/ 2003...
19 Jun 2012

Pushing Myself to the Limit

South-downs Way I always like to challenge myself. I generally go for mental challenges, trying new technologies and coming up with new ideas. I feel that it’s the best way to learn and expand my mind – however I tend...
22 May 2012

Perfection is overrated… right?

If you’re reading this in a web browser (and you’ve visited the site before) then you’ll know that I have recently updated the design here on Binary Moon.I’ve been sitting on this design for about 7 or 8 months. I...
15 May 2012

European 2 Letter Country Codes Cheat Sheet

As web designers, sometimes we need to work with lists of countries. For instance there is a new EU cookie law coming into action soon – that only applies to Europe. There is a worldwide standard that gives each country...
01 May 2012

Mimbo Pro Released on WordPress.com

My first theme, Regulus, was released on WordPress.com as one of the first themes there. It’s because of Regulus that I started really getting into WordPress themes, so it’s great to have another theme of mine on the site.One of...
26 Apr 2012

Draw Something

Draw Something’s developer, OMGPop, was recently purchased by Zynga for $crazy money. It’s a phenomenon that I don’t quite understand but have been dragged in to.Essentially it’s a drawing game, with no objective. Take it in turns to draw pictures...
20 Apr 2012

iPhone Game in More than a Day

So I continued experimenting with my experimental iPhone game from over a week ago.In the video below you can see the progress I have made. I added a very simple graphic for the character you are protecting. I thought this...
08 Apr 2012

An iPhone Game in One Day?

So – it’s Easter Day – and I have nothing planned. I am going to make a video game!I’ve had an idea for an iPhone game going round and round in my head for a couple of weeks now, and...

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