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Howard Jones held his 25th Anniversary concert at the indigoO2 arena recently to celebrate his ’25 years in music’. In preparation for the concert, I was commissioned to produce a promotional trailer which would be broadcast at the arena itself and also on YouTube™ to advertise the forthcoming event.

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

WordPress is one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) on the Web today, but doing Research and Development (R&D) on the platform can be problematic at best. The reason being is any R&D that you do on a Live WordPress platform has a potential risk of bringing your website down. So, what do you do if you want to create a new theme or test a new plugin to see if it meets your needs?

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).

Data and information these days seem to be more valuable than gold or precious stones. With the ever increase of activity in computer crime and Internet fraud, users want to secure their personal data on their computers more now than ever before.

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.