Speck See-thru Satin case for Macbook Pro

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

First thing i bought for my Macbook Pro was this Speck case!
They do it in two finishes and lots of colours, the normal case has a very shiny ‘plasticy’ finish to it, where as this model (Satin) has an almost rubbery-like texture, making it feel a lot more durable and resistant to scratches.
It’s a couple [...]




Castle Crashers Review

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

I filmed a review of Castle Crashers from the xbox arcade. Backed by the Behemoth, they gave me some DLC codes to give away and the usual Caps4Stix giveaway as well!
Update: The competitions been drawn now im afraid and the prizes sent out, more giveaway’s with the next podcast so check back soon!




Switched to Mac!?

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

After years of criticizing people who buy macs, i’ve made the switch.

I’ve never understood why anyone would pay so much more for a machine that essentially does the same job as a PC, and yet for some reason i caved in and last week went out and bought myself a Macbook Pro.
Why? well, now i’m [...]




PHP setcookie overwriting problem.

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

I’ve just found a tiny error in how I’ve been taught to create cookies in PHP. So thought i’d share it incase it was driving anyone else crazy too.
Symptoms: cookie data is overwritten or not passed properly.
Solution: Firstly lets make sure you’re writing cookie’s properly.. (time is set to 30days)
 setcookie(’name’, ‘value’, time() + 3600*24*30);
It’s likely [...]




Wordpress.com, Wordpress.org or Drupal?

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Choosing a CMS can be difficult, here i’ll take you through the basics and hopefully help you decide which is best for you.
I’ve always been a fan of wordpress. Starting with no experience of PHP and just some basic HTML and CSS skills, wordpress enabled me to create a dynamic site very quickly!
First off, there’s [...]