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Enabling CSS Hover Selector on Touch Enabled Devices

Most web developers and designer make use of this common CSS selector to help make pages easier to consume by…

Posted on: November 8, 2014
By: jammer
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D3 Limiting Pan & Zoom on Time Axis

Just cracked this problem and thought I'd share my fiddles!

Posted on: November 6, 2014
By: jammer
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Yosemity Handoff – What’s really happening?

It should be obvious to people that the more and higher levels of integration of devices like the Mac and…

Posted on: October 26, 2014
By: jammer
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PIXMA MG7150 Photo Printing Tests

Believe it or not I've only just got around to getting some serious photo printing done on my new Canon…

Posted on: October 24, 2014
By: jammer
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Using Older Versions of Adobe Photoshop under OSX Yosemity

I've already made the leap to using Yosemity on my MacBook Pro and so far all seems really stable and…

Posted on: October 23, 2014
By: jammer
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Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac and Yosemity Compatility Fiasco

I've been using Window 8 on my MacBook Pro for well over a year now. The combination of the two…

Posted on: October 23, 2014
By: jammer
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Nefarious Yosemity Spotlight Feature

With the new version of OSX just released there is a rather naughty feature that is switched on by default.…

Posted on: October 22, 2014
By: jammer
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Safari Web Inspector for iOS Debugging

Whilst I'm building web pages I make a lot of use of the development tools that modern browsers include. These…

Posted on: September 20, 2014
By: jammer
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iOS 8

So I was an early adopter ... gotta say that the update really did happen without a hitch. But, Apple…

Posted on: September 20, 2014
By: jammer
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Apple … U2 … Really?

Hmm ... I HATE U2 with a passion. Bono is offensive frankly so you can imagine my delight in having…

Posted on: September 16, 2014
By: jammer
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Gmail & Thunderbird

So, Gmail access using a desktop client. Should be easy right? I ended up going round and round in circles…

Posted on: August 18, 2014
By: jammer
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Canon PIXMA MG7150

So my trusty old (as in REALLY old) Epson Photo R200 died last week and I have a stack of…

Posted on: August 9, 2014
By: jammer
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iPad Mini Cover – Tech 21 Impact Mesh + Apple Smart Cover

After I blogged about the appalling quality of the IWANTIT(to fuck off) case I've upgraded. After looking around a lot…

Posted on: August 9, 2014
By: jammer
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IWANTIT iPad Mini Case review

So, when I bought my iPad I really didn't want to leave the store without a cover to keep it…

Posted on: August 2, 2014
By: jammer
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iPad Mini Retina 32Gb

So with great trepidation I have indeed bought my second Apple device - an iPad Mini with Retina display (32Gb…

Posted on: July 19, 2014
By: jammer
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Developer Productivity

Posted on: July 15, 2014
By: jammer
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Why do I always get my Accordion controls mixed up with my Concertina controls?

– Jammer

SSL Certificate, FindByThumbprint and the Occultist Codepage

Have you ever ran into a situation where for some reason you cannot load an SSL certificate from the store?…

Posted on: July 10, 2014
By: jammer
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Happy Nicola Tesla Day 2014

Who the hell is this guy? Well ... this is probably the closest a real human will get to be…

Posted on: July 10, 2014
By: jammer
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When Social Turns Anti-Social and The Price of a Book Is Too Cheap

As a software engineer and now CTO of my own technology company I watch what happens out there in the…

Posted on: July 7, 2014
By: jammer
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