Why is my Safari icon pixelated?

Tuesday, 20th October 2009

Why is my Safari icon pixelated?

No idea why or how this happened.

Seemed to happen not long after upgrading to Snow Leopard. Had a search around and found other people had been experiencing blurry/pixelated icons too. Also, this thread on the Apple Support web site.

Anyway, I just dragged the Safari application into the dock again and that fixed it for me – weird…


Nikki Loy – Now or Never Debut EP

Thursday, 20th August 2009

Nikki Loy - Now or Never EP

Nikki’s Debut EP “Now or Never” is available to download…

Nikki gigs regularly in Oxford, London and the surrounding areas… She is currently working on her second EP which will be released later in 2009 (fingers crossed). The first one, ‘Now or Never’ is available NOW on iTunes and Amazon:

For updates and forthcoming gigs, you can follow Nikki at nikkiloy.com, Facebook and Twitter.

PS: She’s also available for booking for your event and I can assure you she’s great! (I’m she she won’t mind me saying)


Categories and Tags in WP e-Commerce

Thursday, 23rd July 2009

I’ve been using the WP e-Commerce plugin for WordPress a lot recently and delving behind the scenes to make it do want I want it to. In the process I have submitted a couple of style changes to the core to style it to be more like WordPress out-of-the-box.

One thing I think should be changed to bring the product edit screen in-line with the WordPress post/page editing layouts is the separation of the Categories and Tags boxes.

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WordPress Trash

Tuesday, 21st July 2009

A great feature being worked on for a future version of WordPress (hopefully 2.9) was added to the the development version today.

The ‘Trash’ functionality will work in the same way as your Mac or the Recycle bin on Windows – when you delete an item, it will be moved to the Trash from where it can be recovered or permanently deleted.

The functionality is currently being tested out with comments and hopefully if it works well will be roled out to other WordPress assets like post, pages and links.

So no more impulse deleting of something, then wishing you hadn’t… Phew!


Integrating Google XML Sitemaps with Your WordPress Plugin

Sunday, 12th July 2009

Note: Please read my more recent post about Integrating Google XML Sitemaps with the latest version of WP e-Commerce using a plugin by Lee Willis.

One plugin I recommend that everyone should add to their WordPress installation is the Google XML Sitemaps plugin.

This plugin will automatically generate an XML sitemap of your posts and pages and ping supporting search engines to notify them that the sitemap has been updated.

But the best thing about this plugin for other plugin developers is it provides hooks so you can ‘borrow’ it’s functionality so that your plugin can add additional pages into the XML sitemap that is generated.

So if you’re a WordPress plugin developer, read on…

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