Removing the Dotted Hyperlink Borders Posted in Design, General, Tutorials, Websites

I love Firefox, it is my favoured browser but there is one little thing that really frustrates me, especially from a designer point of view. You may, or may not have noticed that the browser adds a dotted border around hyperlinks that only become visible upon activating the link. For many this is probably not a problem as its not exactly causing any problems to anyone, but I don't like it.

Self Conlusion WP Plugins (Part. 1) Posted in Design, General, WordPress

Following on from my last few posts on WordPress, I thought I would talk about the various Plugins that I frequently use, and imparticular, the Plugins that are built into Self Conclusion, as I have several sections which import information from various social sites such as Last.FM, Delicious and Flickr.

(Nerd)Press - My Own WP Theme Posted in Design, General, Websites, WordPress

I've been saying to myself for a year or so now that I would develop my own WordPress theme to distribute on the web. Well, I recently have had my tonsels out which has meant lots of time has been spent either in bed, or lounging around the house (be it in pain but still). The other day I decided I finally started, and three days in its going really well!

Favourite iPhone Apps So Far Posted in Apple, Reviews, Software, iPhone

iPhone users will (or should) be aware that the 2.0 software for the device allows installation of a whole bunch of applications that are now available on iTunes, some free, some not. I went through the initial stage, as i'm sure most did where I just couldn't get enough applications, becoming greedy just to fill up my sexy iPhone screen with new icons! Well after a month or so since the update, here's my favourite ones...

Moving Mail from Apple to PC = Ball ache! Posted in Apple, General, Tutorials, Windows

Well I can safely say I have broke the record for the amount of time spent copying email between computers! So far, 15 hours and counting. Thats right, 15! Why? Well partly because the guy I am doing it for has literally thousands of emails dating back to 1999 (there all over the place, fortunatly organized, but to a point where there are so many folders!), and partly because Entourage is crap.

New Jack’s EP Posted in General, Music

You may be aware that Jack's Mannequin released a pre album EP, titled 'The Ghost Overground' yesterday. The EP itself only contains four tracks, two of new material and two live track's from there debut album 'Everything in Transit'.

Selfconclusion redesign :) Posted in Design, General, Websites, WordPress

Well, I finally did it! Selfconclusion has a new look, and I am very happy with the way it has come out. I've been wanting to do it for ages now but after several unsuccessful attempts, I was beginning to think I would never get it done. Anyway's thats the past now and heres the present. The site is not 100% completed and there are a few bugs, The archive page isn't done yet but the single post page is.

Free MCS Acoustic EP Download Posted in General, Music

Thats right guys, for any fans of the awsome Motion City Soundtrack, well this ones for you! Especially Non-US fans who can't actually purchase this over iTunes as its not available! This new collection of songs from the band was only released yesterday (6th of May) and you won't even be able to find this in any store, only on iTunes! The EP itself is fully acoustic, consisting of 5 songs from there latest album 'Even if it Kills Me', check out the song listing and the download link below...

New Dark Knight Trailer! Posted in Design, Film & TV, General

After seeing Iron Man the other night, I hit google in search for more "Superhero" news, to my suprise I came across the new 'Batman: Dark Knight' trailer. Click the link to view it yourself and let me know what you think! Such a shame about Heath Ledger as he clearly looks like he nailed the 'Joker' role! As you'll agree the movie looks amazing, I can't wait till summer now to see it!

New iPhone icons with customized Searching Posted in Apple, Websites, iPhone

I just wanted to let people know that I have designed another site at the following address http://iphone.selfconclusion.co.uk that is based around customizing the iPhone's home screen by adding new custom web icons. I will be designing more icons shortly, but there are a couple listed on the site at present so everyone can see how it works. These new icons I am bringing to you are not just to pimp up the home screen but there also very useful, for example, the iPhone version of the eBay site is up and running now, and the custom eBay web icon you can add from my new site doubles as a search box linking you straight through to search results stopping ...