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10 Ways to Make Your Infographic Totally Awesome
From Neo Mammalian Studios: Our sarcastic tribute to those infographic designers who insist on doing it wrong…repeatedly and unashamedly. (via @scjammycustard)
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Minimalistic iPhone 5 wallpapers
I was asked on Twitter today if I would mind updating my minimal iPhone 4 wallpapers to the new iPhone 5 size. It turns out that I would not mind at all, so here they are: Minimalistic iPhone 5...
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A fun WordPress trick: Customise your ‘Read more…’ text
Here’s a fun trick I learned last night while creating a WordPress theme, and also works for WordPress.com blogs like this one. You may already know that you can insert a break point into a long post...
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Magazine in a Day – Cycling
Update: As I mentioned previously on this blog, I’ve signed up a photographer for a fun project called Content: A Magazine in a Day, which is going to be taking place at the School of Journalism this...
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Wales Blog Awards 2010 and 2011: A call for information
Note: See bottom of this post for updates. Last year I wrote about the blogs that were shortlisted for – and won – the Wales Blog Awards. I had an idea for a follow-up post this year that would give a...
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Stylish cyclists of Cardiff, my contribution to #CardiffMakeaMag
I’ve broken away early from efforts at the Cardiff School of Journalism to produce a cycling-themed magazine in a day for the Cardiff Arts Festival. You can monitor the progress of those who are still...
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Some very cool WordPress plugins
This Wednesday is the next WordPress Users Wales meet-up, and the theme is something that every WordPress user loves to talk about: Plugins! Plugins are shiny toys to a WordPress geek. We love to play...
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The best Google Webmaster videos
I thought it might be useful to bring together ten of the most popular videos from Google’s Webmasters YouTube channel. I’ve taken the liberty of filtering out the marketing videos and have just...
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alpha.app.net/foomandoonian
Early adopters can now follow me on App.net at alpha.app.net/foomandoonian. I’m not really sold on ADN yet, though I really do hope it succeeds. It all feels a little too ‘Diaspora’ to me though – a...
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Anatomy of a hoax: Faking the Sony Nexus X
A fascinating and detailed breakdown of how of how one guy with Blender 3D faked the “Sony Nexus X”: I faked the Sony Nexus X. Truly sorry. But I did come away from the experience with a few...
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Halfblog: Now AdFree
I’ve finally decided to remove the ugly WordAds from this site, and upgraded to AdFree. I asked WordPress.com support about the possibility of spending the $30 I had accrued with WordAds on AdFree,...
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Monster Roll
A short film about sushi chefs fighting sea monsters. MonsterRoll.com It’s sounds like the producers are planning a Kickstarter round to raise funds for a movie or series. Follow them on Twitter and...
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WordPress.com now supports Instagram embeds
The good news is that WordPress.com now lets you embed pictures from Instagram. Simply paste an Instagram URL into your post and you get a picture that links directly to the source, just like this:...
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Plan 9 from Outer Space, Inception style
So, this is what I did with my weekend… Proof that Zack Hemsey’s amazing ‘Mind Heist’ theme – aka the Inception trailer music – can make any movie look epic, even the worst movie of all time. The...
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Sir, You Are Being Hunted
I just backed my first Kickstarter project, ‘Sir, You Are Being Hunted’: Survival and stealth in a procedurally-generated world! Sir, You Are Being Hunted is tweedpunk robo-horror from Big Robot Games....
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How not to treat your customers online: Google bring sucky web experiences to...
I really appreciate these hilarious videos made by Google Analytics. They’re a perfect illustration of how frustrating shopping online can be. Online Checkout With the holiday shopping season in full...
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How to live with introverts
Dr. Carmella’s Guide to the Introverted is a very astute webcomic by Schroeder Veidt. Below the comic I’ve also embedded a TED talk by Susan Cain who talks about how extrovert behaviour has come to be...
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WordPress pro tip: Use LESS or Sass directly in the CSS editor
Tonight I have been tweaking my custom CSS and I noticed a rather cool setting. It turns out that you can write LESS or Sass directly into the CSS stylesheet editor that is available to WP.com users...
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Halfblog: 2012 in review
WordPress.com has produced some cool-looking reports for users, summing up blog activity for 2012. It’s really just a pretty stats page, but it’s very well done with CSS animated fireworks, parallax...
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Some of my favourite Instagram photos
I’ve been using Instagram for over two years and have uploaded 380 pictures so far. I thought it would be nice to gather some of my favourites together (and try out the new WordPress.com gallery...
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