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iPhone Application: Invitation to Tender

April 23rd, 2009

We want to jump on the bandwagon and create our very own iPhone application. We’ve put together a high-level brief (download link below) describing how the application should work and what we require from a developer.
If you’re an iPhone developer and are interested in working with us on this project please contact us or leave [...]

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We’re back - and with a new blogging platform!

March 25th, 2009

Regular visitors will have noticed that we’ve not posted anything for a while (in fact a whole 6 months!). There’s no excuse for this but (I’ll make one anyway), we’ve been rather busy working for our clients over the last few months. However, we’re back and better than ever with a brand new blog platform. [...]

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Moving email from Microsoft Outlook to Apple Mail using MessageSave

April 4th, 2008

We’re currently moving from PC to Mac and part of this process involves transferring our email from Microsoft Outlook 2004 to Apple Mail. This is by no means a straight forward process when you have 2GB worth of email spanning 7 years! That was until we came across a tool named MessageSave by TechHit! Read on…
For those [...]

Odds & Sods, Web Development Software

We need your help choosing our next logo…

January 12th, 2008

It’s now 2008 and we’ve been in business for 7 years, so we feel it’s time for a change. We value our blog readers’ opinions and would like to see what you guys all think about a few logo ideas we’ve been playing with.
 
We’d love to hear your thoughts. Please leave your comments below:

Odds & Sods, Website Design

An Introduction to RSS Feeds

December 6th, 2006

We’ve all seen them. Those funny orange icons dotted around the Internet with the words RSS, feed, and subscribe. This article explains what RSS actually is and how we can all use it to help our everyday tasks run more efficiently.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is a format for sharing data, typically from a website. For [...]

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Play our Snowman Game to Win a Sudoku Game!

November 6th, 2006

Can you beat our top score of 782? Are you up to the challenge? We’ve spent the last 12 months practicing and challenge anyone to top our score! Post your feeble attempts in the comments below and the winner will receive a smashing Sudoku Game worth £30! Enjoy and Good Luck!

Remember to post your top score [...]

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Bring your photos to life with Adobe Photoshop

October 11th, 2006

This tutorial goes through the basics of bringing your photos to life using level and colour adjustment in Adobe Photoshop by putting the colour back into those washed out looking photos.
We are going to use this rather dull and washed out image of a horse in the New Forest, taken using a digital camera.

Original Photo
1. [...]

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Blogging: What’s all this about?

August 6th, 2006

You may be one of the millions of bloggers out there at the moment, however, there are still lots of people who haven’t a clue what this is or have heard of it but never really understood it. In a nutshell, a blog is a web log, typically referred to as an online journal or [...]

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