I’ve just got back from the West Midlands MeetUp in Evesham, tired but happy as they say.   It was a great afternoon and well worth the effort of organising it. We were a select band with a widely differing range of experience, and all kinds of different skill sets but it made for a harmonious whole and demonstrated the benefits of having these get togethers.  I had met some of the guys before at the Manchester MeetUp in August last year and it was an absolute pleasure to see them again... Read Full Story

I’ve been threatening to do this for a while and have finally got it sorted!  For anyone who has been to one of the MeetUps held all over the globe, you will know how beneficial they are - and fun too. I have happy memories of the Manchester MeetUp that launched the Thrity Day Challenge last year, not to mention the lunch that preceded it! However, I digress… The Date:- Saturday 21st February The Time:- 12 noon onwards The Place:- The Amber Bar, Evesham, Worcestershire -  google m... Read Full Story

It’s a well known fact that I have unbounded admiration for Seth Godin, what you probably don’t know is that I have spent the last few weeks and months becoming increasingly vitriolic in my tirades against the Numpties who preach doom, gloom and despondency in the various media - I am becoming the woman who shouts at the TV…  it gets embarrassing after a while. The reason I shout at the TV, in particular the BBC Breakfast TV programme’s Business Reports is that they se... Read Full Story

This is a lovely little extension for Firefox for all those web builders out there - ColorZilla provides a whole raft of tools for analysing colors and so forth on websites.  Very pleased to have this at my finger tips. This one came as something of a surprise to me - I didn’t even realise this tool existed - MakeUseOf.com is a constant source of joyous info for me -  How To Create Your Own Fonts & Characters on Windows Social Bookmarking Read Full Story

I have a plan for this year - it involves a major housekeep of all my sites (and there are an awful lot) which will end with many of them going by the wayside I suspect.  I’m also revamping my vanity site, which hadn’t been touched in donkeys ages and which was really quite shameful.  The new site will be a little bare to start with but will gradually become a directory of all my sites and work online.  You may be surprised at what comes out of the woodwork…. There will be s... Read Full Story

The feeds have been a little quiet this week but a few nice items have come through today:- MakeUseOf.com have come up with a very interesting article on posting to Blogger from your cell phone - ideal if you are on the move and want to keep things up to date… How To Send Blog Posts To Blogger With Your Cellphone TweetBacks is a nice little wordpress plugin - still in beta - which will add tweets about your blog post just above the comments.  I’m trying it out here so it will... Read Full Story

This useful article popped up today.  I’m sure there isn’t one of us that hasn’t seen the ‘missing dll’ message when trying to do something just after a file clean up or the like.  This excellent article from MakeUseOf tells you how to sort it - How To Fix Missing DLL File Errors Graphics are my downfall so I’m always happy to find good tutorials and this is an excellent list from Smashing Magazine - 50 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Video Tutorials ... Read Full Story

It’s the first day ‘back at work’ today for lots of people, though many of us who inhabit the cyber world have been dipping in and out over the holiday period.  I have been quite heartened by the reduction in spam and rubbish that has landed in my Inbox over the last few days, but the floodgates opened today and I have been inundated with a tidal wave of ‘Your business won’t survive without….’ or ‘ Make a fortune even in the bad times…R... Read Full Story

It’s the first day ‘back at work’ today for lots of people, though many of us who inhabit the cyber world have been dipping in and out over the holiday period.  I have been quite heartened by the reduction in spam and rubbish that has landed in my Inbox over the last few days, but the floodgates opened today and I have been inundated with a tidal wave of ‘Your business won’t survive without….’ or ‘ Make a fortune even in the bad times…R... Read Full Story

This is a neat application - at first glance you may think ‘why?’ but it has lots of applications.  Most of us have digital cameras that will photograph documents when we are out and and about - this converts them to look like a scanned image.  In other words it takes out all the angles, distortions etc.  My first thought was ‘family tree docs - great! There are lots of other uses.  Snapter is free for the first 14 days, then goes to a paid version - you can still use the fr... Read Full Story