The list is:

Apple iMac / MacOS X
Apple iPhone
Apple iTunes / iPod
WordPress
Facebook
Twitter
Amazon Prime
World of Warcraft
Online Banking
Adobe PhotoShop
Adobe Dreamweaver
XTorrent

…and a good old fashion notepad and pen.

Upon reflection, that’s a lot of products or is it? I am also shocked on the amount of Apple products listed; maybe it’s a testiment on how good their products really are.

On the flip side, I thought that it would be fun to list the products I ‘can’ live without:

Apple iPad
Internet Explorer, especially version 6!
Microsoft Windows
AppleTV
3D Films/TV
Blackberry Phones

Why don’t you make your own list and see how many we have in common, or scare yourself on how many products you can’t live without.

The Interactive Media Awards “…recognise the highest standards of excellence in website design and development and honour individuals and organizations for their outstanding achievement.” as quoted from their website and it is a worldwide recognised award.

I can’t take all the credit as the Norfolk Constabulary website was a team effort. For those involved on the project, I can honestly say that we’ve put a lot of hard work and love into the website and winning an award like the IMA just makes all that effort worthwhile.

This would be my second IM Award that I have been a part of; my first one was for the Office of Government Commerce website that was constructed in 2007.

dtox Records, Howard Jones record company, were extremely happy with the final result, so they further commission me to produce three further videos which would be shown within the actual concert itself; at the very start and during the two intermissions that were in the set schedule.

Howard Jones – The 25th Anniversary Concert videos

Well, you can install WordPress locally on your Mac so that you can play around with the platform to your heart’s content. Luckily, there is a solution where you don’t need to install and configure the Apache, PHP and MySQL packages on your Mac.

Setting up WordPress locally on your Mac tutorial

CSS skills are hard to master these days for numerous reasons. One, there are about half a dozen different ways to achieve the same result that you want, so you are constantly doubting yourself on whether you are using the right one, and two, due to Internet Explorer being ‘non-compliant’, you’ve got mess up your perfect written code to make it render correctly.

Well, I came across this book The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks that basically tells you how to accomplish the effect that you desire by using the correct method, the tried and tested method. I found the book extremely helpful and insightful, so I thought that I would give it a mention on my blog.

So, if you need to brush up your skills in CSS, or you need to know how to do a certain ‘trick’ like round-corner boxes, then this is the book for you. The book is in full colour, 400pgs and the for the code itself, you can download from the supported website. If you don’t believe me, check out other people’s reviews on Amazon (link above).

Although MacOS X is an extremely secure operating system from hackers when you are using the Internet, the physical computer itself is not so secure. Files can be easily transferred off your Mac if someone has direct access to your machine and also if they have with them another Mac and Firewire cable.

I have created a tutorial where you can create a secure virtual folder so that you and only you can access them (and anyone else who knows the password come to mention it). You don’t need to buy any additional software, MacOS X has everything you need.