Inclusive and Accessible Web Design

Watching BCS Health Scotland webcast with David Sloan “Web accessibility for the public health sector” who has described a very useful resource in terms of the principles of accessibility: Ten Principles of Inclusive . . . → Read More: Inclusive and Accessible Web Design

Thunderbird Addon features in Mac Mail

Just found a way around not having the virtual identity plugin to Thunderbird on Mac Mail.app, A post on macrumors shows how to set up multiple e-mail addresses with the . . . → Read More: Thunderbird Addon features in Mac Mail

Online Graph Grid Paper PDF Generator

I recently needed a PDF based grid to help with a layout task – I found the lifehack website a really useful site resource that makes grids on the fly for whatever specifications you . . . → Read More: Online Graph Grid Paper PDF Generator

Fixing firefox after upgrade

Firefox recently upgraded to 3.6.15 and in the process appeared to mangle all of my add-ons – really very frustrating when they make a significant difference to how I interact with firefox. Fortunately I found that there were a couple of useful fixes available; firstly to clear out the extensions cache and ini files as described . . . → Read More: Fixing firefox after upgrade

Geotagging and EXIF manipulation for photos in Mac OS X and iPhoto

Early Innovations have a great programme for Geo-tagging your photos GPS Photolinker, however because iPhoto store the EXIF data in a separate database that it updates at import time it makes Geo-tagging your photos a challenge; though it may be possible using other tools listed in a thread on Apple’s support Discussions Forum suggests.  Another alternative . . . → Read More: Geotagging and EXIF manipulation for photos in Mac OS X and iPhoto

Next Gen Gallery for wordpress

I have been looking for a suitable gallery plugin for wordpress and came across Alex Rabe’s fantastic NextGEN Gallery plugin, however there was no documentation until I found a review by David Potter which just makes life so much easier. When you combine this with John Brien‘s NextGen GalleryView Plugin it is a really . . . → Read More: Next Gen Gallery for wordpress

Changing save as PDF locations in Mac OS X

I came across this a while ago and thought it was cool (then when I next needed it I forgot where I read it – so this time I thought I’d post it here to make it easy to get at)  you can change the locations you might have added for saving PDF’s in to read . . . → Read More: Changing save as PDF locations in Mac OS X

Booklet Printing on Mac In Snow Leopard

I was keen to save some paper by printing some stuff as 2-up back to back booklet; fortunately I found an automator printing plugin that does just what I . . . → Read More: Booklet Printing on Mac In Snow Leopard

Mac Pro Audio output switches back to Internal Speakers on reboot rather than staying with Line Out at back of computer

I was having problems with the sound on my mac reverting to internal speakers and not using the line out on the back. Fortunately it seems that this is a problem have had before http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10141072#10141072 and that deleting some config files and restarting has fixed . . . → Read More: Mac Pro Audio output switches back to Internal Speakers on reboot rather than staying with Line Out at back of computer

NHS Mail and Mac OS X 10.6

Like many mac users I was looking forward to the release of Snow Leopard – Mac OS X 10.6 with it’s native support for Microsoft Exchange in the hope that I could get my NHS.net Exchange account  to work with this. Unfortunately it doesn’t work and mail crashes out completely when trying to configure the account . . . → Read More: NHS Mail and Mac OS X 10.6