From the monthly archives:

July 2008

Hand-written and personal

by Dave Foy on July 29, 2008

I’ve waxed lyrical and evangelised heavily about the Wufoo form-creation service before. I still use it and love it to bits.

So I was really, really deep-down chuffed to receive a hand-written, personally addressed card through the post from the Wufoo team today. In it they thank me for continuing to use the service after all this time and for contributing a little bit to their success.

It’s a cliche, but in a time when it’s so easy for a company to fire off an anonymous email (or maybe an automatically personalised one, at best), it makes all the difference to know that someone has personally thought about, prepared, written and posted a proper old-fashioned note, especially considering it’s all the way from Florida to the UK.

So to Wufoo – thanks!

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At long last.

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Loving the Remote

by Dave Foy on July 19, 2008

I can’t express how much I’m absolutely loving the Remote iPhone app.

Oddly I missed this on the first launch of the store. I’m sat here happily controlling the tunes playing from the Mac Book Pro (which is located way up in the office upstairs) whilst sat in the living room, but through various speakers around the house, all via the Airport Express units scattered around the place.

It’d be an amazing app anyway just to be able to remotely use iTunes with such complete control, but to be able to designate which remote Airport Express unit to pipe the music through, anywhere in the house, makes this simply killer.

Love it.

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For the love of Things

by Dave Foy on July 11, 2008

My love affair with Things (a desktop GTD app for Mac OS X) is no secret. I use it in almost every moment of every single day, just love it. read more »

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iTunes App Store

by Dave Foy on July 11, 2008

I hadn’t realised how quickly time has passed these last few weeks so the appearance of the iPhone App Store today took me a bit by surprise. The store has opened in advance of the iPhone 2.0 software update coming tomorrow (though some wiley folks have figured out how to get it already). read more »

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Learn to build a better Web with Opera

by Dave Foy on July 9, 2008

Hats off to Opera for publishing this fantastic course in building websites the right way using Web Standards.

Opera Web Standards Curriculum.

If you’re just starting out building websites, you could do worse than use the Opera tutorials as your guide.

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How to fold anything

by Dave Foy on July 6, 2008

I’m a man who desperately needs to learn how to fold stuff properly. Imagine my delight at finding a website which basically shows me how to fold anything. Oh what joy!!

Though it does make me rather concerned I’ll soon no longer have my pathetic excuse left: “Oh you fold this up, you do it so much better than me…”

Reminds me (incidentally) of one of my favourite albums of all time: How to Clean Everything by the almighty Propaghandi.

Happy days, happy memories.

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