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Crisp & Clear

Crisp & Clear

Went out for a wander this afternoon to nearby Lytham with my wife and daughter, it’s been an absolutely stunning day, had coffee, cake and fresh air. It’s good to get get away from a computer screen once in a while, although it does take a bit of mild bribery ( or nagging ) to initially convince me, I do actually enjoy it once I’m out! Hope you like the photos, feel free to use...

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Apparently I'm a Hedgehog

Apparently I'm a Hedgehog

I’ve just completed the BBC’s Virtual Revolution web behaviour test, it turns out that I’m a Hedgehog. The test is pretty interesting, although I did have to guesstimate some of the answers relating to my time spent on the web, as I’m online most of the time, in fact I often online whilst doing other things, such as eating, drinking, talking and ( at least pretending )...

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Keeping orders in order

Keeping orders in order

With more clients comes more information, graphics, images, logos, usernames, passwords and billing, all of which needs to be kept organised and backed up. To help both myself and my customers I decided I needed a better system to keep all of this data in order, I had two main issues, first was keeping all of my clients contact details, including domain names and hosting purchased from me, as...

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HTML5, Bye Flash!

HTML5, Bye Flash!

Is this the beginning of the end for Flash? It’s early days yet, but it’s encouraging to see the big players such as YouTube testing out HTML5. A rather pointless, yet beautiful HTML5 demo is available...

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The left handed designer

The left handed designer

As a lefty I find it a struggle to use my graphics tablet, sure I draw pretty good with my left hand, but after years of using a mouse with my right hand I find the eye to hand coordination difficult. This leaves me having to either adapt my drawing skills to my right hand or having to re-learn the eye to hand coordination skills when using my left hand. Maybe I should have just started using a...

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The dekoded Twitter competition is now LIVE!

The dekoded Twitter Competition is now LIVE! The unique phrase is ‘dekodedhost‘, this phrase must be tweeted and your tweet must also contain the following link: http://dekoded.com Happy Tweeting and good luck! For further information please go to our competiton page here:...

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