Finally Done My Business Cards

Terrible isn't it! After over 6 months of working for myself / freelancing I have finally gotten around to ordering my business Cards. Luckily work has been steady so far but just recently more and more people have asked for one. They're coming from Hong Kong so will be …

SoccerManager.com Firefox Search Plugin

A shameless bit of self promotion perhaps but in the off chance there is some SoccerManager.com players reading this then it might be of use.

I created a quick Firefox plugin to enable you to search the Soccer Manager database when scouting players. You can get it here.

How to: Backup Automatically to Amazon S3

Applies to Windows NT, XP and Vista.

Regular daily, weekly and monthly backups should be implemented in any business or situation where you can't afford to loose items stored on your PC and servers. In the past this could be quite a costly process with tape drives and …

Refracted: New Year.... New Design

Bar a couple of cosmetic enhancements, its nearly 3 years since I redesigned this site. Well with a new year comes a new design, welcome to 'Refracted', a custom theme designed for Wordpress 2.7.

After getting the design sketched out and the feature set documented, last …

Happy New Year

Happy belated New Year folks. Hope you all had a great break and 2009 is better than 2008!

Happy New Year

Happy belated New Year folks. Hope you all had a great break and 2009 is better than 2008!

Songbird 1.0 Released

Over two years since the alpha version of Songbird was released, this potentially excellent media player has matured into the full version 1.0 release. While still not perfect, there are still features to check off the roadmap such as CD-ripping, this player has finally …

How to Fix: Invalid Update Control CTF File - AVG Free 8.0

Since installing excellent, free antivirus program AVG Free 8.0 on both my laptop and my PC I have been more than happy with the experience. It appears to runn smoothly without a notceable performance hit and my machines haven't become riddled with virus's (touch …

Microsoft Pulls Out of the Yahoo Acquisition

Interestingly Microsoft yesterday announced that they have retracted its acquisiton offer to Yahoo.

From the press release Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer states:

".... we conveyed our willingness to raise our offer to $33.00 per share, reflecting again our belief in …

Have a Great 2008

Hopefully everyone had a great Christmas and New Year! Here's to 2008, exciting times with a bit of luck and a lot of hard work!

Lost In Time

For want of a much better title, it looks like 3 months have passed since I last updated this blog. It doesn't feel like three months but I seem to have replaced one love (blogging) with a profession (web design) and the free time that I used for benbishop.me.uk has …

Last.fm on Vista (no longer requires adminstrator rights)

Since upgrading to Vista, around about the time it was released, I am proud to say that I am one of the few who has been very happy with the experience. I am a sucker for shiny things and like virtually all the features they have introduced - lets face it XP felt like …

Get Nik Daum a Publisher

Just a quick note - if ever someone needs to find a publisher its this guy. Check out Nik Daum's 'dordles' (not quite drawings/not quite doodles) and be pleasantly entertained by his fantastic art and wicked sense of humour.

He is currently looking for a publisher and I …

Newshutch.com is Dead, Long Live gReader

So after trying Sage (the excellent Firefox extension addon) many moons ago but concluding RSS readers should be hosted, I went through Rojo, Newsgator, Bloglines and some terrible ones I can't even remember the name of, but none were what I was looking for. I also …

At Last, Laptop Heaven!

Well, it took me a while, too long in fact but I am finally in the land if mobile computing. Really needed one to be able to go away on business and still work but its turned into a bit of a lifestyle accessory (though the novelty might wear off!).

I went for reasonably …

Video: The Great Web Crash of 2007

Videos are not something I usually post on this site but this is well worth a watch. It brightened up my day....

Alan Johnston Freed

Fantastic news today that Alan Johnston, the BBC reporter, has been freed by his kidnappers in the Gaza Strip. 114 days in captivity is a long time!

Its amazing he looks so healthy, great news for him and his family. More details on the BBC website.

Feedburner Pro Made Free

Feedburner today announced the extra features that were previously paid for have been made available free of charge. Both Pro stats and the MyBrand feature have been made available to all since the Google acquisition. Simply log into your account and activate these …

$100 Million Feedburner Acquisition (Google - Again!)

Well according to a number of sources and specifically Techcrunch it seems Google has acquired the simply excellent Feedburner.

As a quick introduction for those that aren't aware of it, Feedburner is the stats management package for your RSS feeds, monitoring a great …

Downtime and Errors

Downtime

All my sites went down today for about 60mins around 5pm (GMT) with my host denying all knowledge. Not the end of the world but a reasonable explanation would have been appreciated. Especially as this is the 7th day this month there has been some length of …