As a guy who’s occasionally taken photos of new bits of tech gear as I unpack them, I love this photoset of lego men unpacking an iphone.

This is a nice little trick if you want to open an image or a page for printing in Joomla without having the surrounding template. Instead of having a link pointing at a page like:

index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=65&itemid=

Change the link to point at:

index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=65&itemid=

Opening it in index2.php just gives you the content without the navigation or other parts of your template. This means you might want to open the link as target=”_blank” so that the user can close the window again afterwards and get back to your main content.

This works in Joomla 1.0 - haven’t tested it in 1.5 yet.

Recently I’ve been pretty brutal about spring cleaning my inbox. I’ve been unsubscibing to pretty much every newsletter that comes through, but one email today from Borders impressed me enough to not hit unsubscribe immediately.

It was dead simple. 2 offer vouchers to print out and take to your local borders store. 40% off any full price book and 20% off a CD/DVD. Only valid this weekend. The email arrived this morning (Friday) meaning all you had to do was print it off and all those questions in your mind about what to do with your Saturday were gone. A trip to Borders it is. Chances are you’re not just going to buy one book or CD though so it’ll be win/win for Borders. In my opinion this will be much more effective than the standard boring old crap about this month’s recommended new reading etc. I might just stay subscribed to Borders to see what they come up with in the future.

Maybe twitter is of some use after all… Student tells his mates about his arrest in Egypt. On twitter

I can’t believe I didn’t work out how to do this until this morning, but if you want to write a post in Wordpress but not have it show up until a later date or time, all you do is edit the timestamp on the post to the future time and hit publish. Job done.
This could mean you could focus on one blog for a few hours while you write loads of posts then move on to another job but still have your posts appearing at regular intervals for the next week. Now I know how these guys keep blogging while they are on their holidays. Doh!
PS This post should be appearing at 1am but I will be sound asleep by then. I hope.

I’ve been doing a bit of investigation recently into Stumbleupon and Twitter - two well talked about social bookmarking sites. So far the results are looking good for Stumbleupon. Analytics reports two pages that I have bookmarked in Stumbleupon getting massive traffic spikes over the course of a day or two. Might not be high quality targetted traffic, but it’s traffic all the same. Twitter on the other hand so far looks like it’s just for fun. If you’re on Twitter, look me up. http://twitter.com/bigcrags.