Moving from Drupal to WordPress
We’ve given our site a redesign, and along with it we’ve moved it from Drupal CMS (content management system) to WordPress CMS. We thought it was time for a refresh, but also we did this because WordPress gives us an…
Category App Development
App Development
Free File Synchronization Utilities
I've recently been looking at a number free File synchronization utilities. I'd previously used SyncToy from Microsoft. It worked well for me for a little while, but then I ended up loosing a number of files because it removed files…
How to create a web site icon
So you've got your self a shiny new web site, and now you want an icon for it? Just create a graphic sized 16×16, and save it as an ICO file. What? Photoshop doesn't save .ico files? Well, I found…
Hard Drive Visualizer
Ever wondered why your hard drive was so full? Ever wondered what was taking up so much space? Wouldn’t it be great to have a visual representation of all of your files at once? If you said yes to any…
Papervision at the Blender Conference
There is an interesting talk on Papervision at the Blender conference:
Blender to Flash with Animation
Finally there is a way to get 3D into Flash, from Blender (or another program such as 3DsMax), with Animation! It’s a tool called Cast3D. Check out this: You can download the Papervision 3D component for Flash CS3 from…
Blender Magic – Fluid Demo
I thought this was a very cool demonstration of the fluid capabilities of Blender. It shows a "magician" character, who "magically" conjures the water into different shapes: You can find more info here: and here:
Adobe Flash content is now Search Engine Friendly!
Great news everyone! Search Engines are now getting the technology to crawl through Adobe Flash content. The Flash SWFs files (even old ones) are now becoming searchable by search engines. 🙂 The improved SWF search even includes the capability to…
Open Source vs. Commerical
While looking for an open source publishing tool (such as Adobe InDesign or Microsoft publisher), I came across this site which lists popular comercial software and it’s counterpart in the open source world: It seems that there are a…
Ubercart – Themeing product pages
I found a nice tutorial about how to theme your product pages in Ubercart. In Ubercart it’s easy to get basic product pages, but to make them look unique requires a bit more finesse. Here’s the post from the forum:…