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.

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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:
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Opening it in index2.php just gives you the content without the navigation or other parts of [...]

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 [...]

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

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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.
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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 [...]