You can tell Optus is really excited about the iPhone 4 release from their stores. You ask why? Have a closer look at their slideshow on the very first page. The First tab under the slideshow reads: ‘The new Apple iPhone 4“. The next tab again reads: ‘The new Apple iPhone 4“^*. While this could have been a genuine mistake I’m surprised the web team hasn’t picked up on this for days!! Actually weeks. It’ll make Steve Jobs very .

^* The text wraps in the second one as the first box is slightly wider than the second one.

Having printed business cards at MOO I can assure you they are great people to work with. Not only were the cards delivered on time but the quality of work was good too. So there you have it, MOO is having a January promotion and if you’re interested to put an order in let me know and I’ll forward you a discount code.

Being a blazing fast browser and scalable I have long since made Firefox my default. I admit it wasn’t easy giving up the luscious goodness of Safari but Firefox does take things to the next level if you constantly write HTML and CSS and use Flickr or like Photography^⌘ !

There are numerous posts about Firefox Add-ons so why make yet another one? Well, I’d like to make one for the ones I frequently use. They are productivity orientated and work for me and am happy to share it with you.

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UPDATE: There is a ‘Do more with Labels” link as you log in on the top of your Gmail page that tell you about Auto-complete, move to Fast PDF previews, Tasks(new), Text messaging in Chat and Gmail on Android. So do check it out.

Hmmm, I remember checking my Gmail before I went to bed last night and deleted what I didn’t need in my account. And if you’re like me you’d like keeping your Inbox, Sent, Spam and Trash box squeaky clean. This ofcourse means you select your messages and then go to the drop down on top and select Delete….a bit of a round about way to delete mail… but to my surprise I saw Google had replaced the unfriendly drop-down with Buttons this morning. Nice! Here is a little write up about it by Gmail engineer, Emil A Eklund.

I tried it with Mailplane too and I can still see those quick buttons. Nice one Google. Doug Bowman wrote about the process on his blog. And as Google says:

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Think I just had a brilliant idea! I have them every now and then . The aim of this little mini tutorial is to show how to create an Archives page in Regulus as shown in the image below.

As a visitor of my site you’d probably be well aware that I change look and feel of my site occasionally. These are called themes within WordPress the engine that runs this site. There are many free and paid WordPress themes floating on the internet but it isn’t always easy to find one that suits ones every need. And among a select one that I like Regulus from Binary moon has a rather soft spot for me. Why Regulus you ask? Its squeaky clean, really simple and conforms to a Strict DTD. But it does lacks an in-built archives page option. After leaving a comment for Ben I decided to have a crack at it and it took me less than 5 minutes to have this up and running. So if you’re using Regulus and want an archive Page get ready. I promise it’ll be less than 5 minutes to get you going.

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My friend and colleague John, has for sometime now been wanting to put his dad’s paintings online. John’s dad John as well, now lives in Queensland and has been painting for a few decades and has achieved some local Australian and international recognition for his work of art. His work has been held in private and company collections throughout Australia, New Zealand, United Stated of America, England and Switzerland. You can read more about John’s achievements and accolades on his exhibitions page.

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Five reasons why I blog you ask? There are many. Most of all is the joy it brings me to write and share photos with friends and family. Others are off-shoots of this very special one.

I really enjoy blogging though not near enough as much as I did before, partly because of time constraints and I find it more fulfilling to write something personal rather than being a pedestrian messenger broadcasting the same topic like a few thousand else on the internet. Really, do we need that many copies? Good composition generally take a bit more time to assimilate and present but when catered for usually make for an interesting read. Well, in most cases.

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