Back in October, I had published a post on how to hack your ipod video to make it look like an ipod classic. Well, given that there’s been a new firmware release from the same group that published the Classic firmware I figured I may get to testing the new iPod Touch interface for the…
Category
Tutorials
Unmountable Boot Volume (Dell, Fix)
So you’re using your Dell laptop (in this case a Dell Inspiron 1501 running Windows XP Professional) with no problems, turn it on one day and you get that gorgeous blue screen of death telling you that you’ve an unmountable boot volume. You call Dell support and they take you through diagnostic tests, get you…
Photoshop & Design Resources For Students
The following are a list of resources for Photoshop for students or anyone looking to get into Adobe Photoshop. Blog post stemmed from conversation with Tanya, a first year multimedia student in Tipperary Institute (part of Bernie Goldbach‘s group, a lot of whom I met in Kilkenny earlier this week). These resources would have been…
Free CSS Tutorials (Beginners & Advanced)
If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to effectively use stylesheets to manage the layout of a web page then head over to Johnnypez.com. John is back in the blogging game (apart from Roaddeaths.ie that is) and has started off with a beginners guide to CSS layouts, followed up with an advanced guide. Tip –…
90% Of Email Now Spam
Its me Jamie. Its me Lynette. Its me Justin. I’m getting sick and tired of these emails, the latest wave of junk mail passing through the office at the moment. Simple emails with random names after “its me” in the subject line just to add to my morning woes of clearing out the junk mail….
Help Yourself With Email
The next Help Yourself session kicks off at 6pm this Wednesday in Harry’s Bar in Langtons and runs for an hour. Guest speaker on the night will be head of marketing and sales for the Hibernian Hotel, Michael Reuter, who will be speaking on the benefits of the Hibernian’s mailing list and lessons they have…
How To Manually Update Your Nameservers
This post is targetted at anyone who has had difficulty or continues to have difficulty with Eircom viewing certain websites. In my case, it relates to domains registered from May of this year onwards. While you can wait a few days for Eircom to get their nameservers in gear or let them refresh, here’s a…
The Blogger’s Glossary
Ever wonder what people are babbling on about? Permalinks, trackbacks, pings, autocasting, vlogging, xml, opml, rss… endless phrases, acronyms, and words that we’ve become so used to on a daily basis. Well, if you do wonder about them, wonder no more thanks to Quick Online Tips’ Giant Blog Glossary. Useful resource if you’re teaching someone…
Geotagging Kenmc.com
For those of you interested, here’s a good web tutorial on Geotagging, particularly handy when it comes to your blog as you can indentify the content of your blog to a specific country, or region, including your RSS feeds. It’s been around a small age already on the web and I have it active on…
PageRank Followup
Having been speaking about Google PageRank last week, I came across this paper which should be of interest to those of you worried about how your site or blog is performing. It is a quite detailed breakdown of how the PageRank algorithm works and what it does. The paper was written by Ian Rogers and…