Archives for Hacks

When Hack Day got struck by lightning... (July 4, 2007) A couple of weeks after the fact, and I'm only now beginning to get my head around what actually happened at Hack Day and I'm starting to look around the web to see what kind of time everyone else had....

Who is speaking at Hack Day? (May 31, 2007) I've just posted a really long piece over on the Hack Day blog about the various people from Yahoo and the BBC who are going to be coming to Alexandra Palace in a little over two weeks. Sorting out the...

Who are we hoping will come to Hack Day? (April 30, 2007) Since Yahoo and the BBC announced a couple of weeks ago that they were doing a Hack Day in London's Alexandra Palace, I've had a lot of people contacting me with questions and comments. Of all the questions, the most...

A Hack for Europe! (April 18, 2007) Right then. This is going to be quite a big deal so pay attention! A few months ago you'll remember Yahoo! put together a Hack Day on their campus in Sunnyvale and invited several hundred designers, developers and engineers to...

Reclaiming hard disk space from iPhoto... (April 17, 2007) A very quick microtip that I've just discovered since buying my new camera. When I'm taking pictures, I have the camera set to take a number of photos in a row. I do this particularly when there are low light...

How I'm formatting my del.icio.us links... (April 3, 2006) I've been using it for bloody ages now - probably a year or something - and I've been asked about it a few times and always meant to write it up. So here goes. If you want to post your...

Against Search Engine Optimisers... (June 26, 2003) In the middle of the comments for a fairly interesting article about the Googledance that never ends there's a post from a professional search engine optimiser. He says: My consulting business website ranks highly in google for a number of...

Hacks: "On this day" links in Movable Type (June 24, 2003) Each day webloggers across the world post news, comments and little fragments of personal information onto their sites. And everything that they post will be forever associated with that specific day in history. But they're not the only sites to...

Hacks: Upgrading to Movable Type from Blogger (June 23, 2003) The instruction manual for Movable Type contains detailed instructions about transferring your weblog from Blogger and Blogger Pro, and these instructions work extremely well if you have not been maintaining your site for very long. But while it's rare for...

Hacks: Mailing Lists with Blogger Pro (June 22, 2003) One of the neat features that comes with Blogger Pro is the ability to have your weblog posts e-mailed off somewhere when you publish them. And this presents opportunities to extend your tiny empire right off the web and into...

Hacks: A Random Link Button (June 21, 2003) Some people read a weblog because they like the person who runs it. Maybe they think that person is a highly entertaining, witty and exciting individual. On the other hand, many weblogs are run by geeks (including this one). If...

Hacks: Styling your first post differently in Blogger... (June 21, 2003) Simple weblogging applications like Blogger can make it a breeze to update your site, but there's a cost attached - every post on your site has to look pretty much the same. Here's a hack that means you can style...