It’s the morning after the night before. The night that was my Layer Tennis match with Jeffrey Kalmikoff. It had good bits, bad bits and things in between. Here’s how I saw it.
Well I have to say all day I had been pretty nervous about it. You realise that thousands of people are watching. […]

If you’re familiar with the fab Nodebox, a Python based app for creating 2D graphics, then you may have come across the really impressive colour library. It allows you to do wonderful things with colour such as finding complementary colours to a base colour and even finding colours that go with keywords such as […]

Last Tuesday 19th Feb I had the pleasure of attending the launch party for Design and the Elastic Mind at MoMA where Cinema Redux is one of the 200 featured exhibits in this amazing new exhibition.
I thought there may be a few hundred people at the launch night - turned out there was more […]

Some of you may recall as I’ve been developing this site, I’ve been using a great little application called MAMP. It essentially allows you to run a local copy of a website with PHP and MYSQL functionality with single click ease. There’s nothing to install, no terminal hocus pocus or anything like that. Just […]

OK. So maybe I’ve become addicted to constantly screwing about with Wordpress themes. Maybe I need help. But this version I’m really happy with.
First off I’ve gone with using a large Flash background with various videos that get randomly chosen. Then I’ve overlaid the HTML over the top. If you want to do the […]

Like most people we have at least 4 remotes in our house that we use as a matter of course. TV, DVD, A/V AMP, PVR. So if we wanted to watch a DVD for instance we would first have to switch input on the TV to HDMI, then switch input on the A/V then turn […]

My old buddy Ryan Carson has just told me about his latest product called DropSend - and having used it I have to say it’s freakin awesome.
As with all great products the idea is super simple. Many firewalls / email clients prevent large attachments being received. Now with dropsend all you have to do is […]

The week before last I attended a small conference sponsored by Microsoft Research Cambridge called Less is More - simple computing in an age of complexity. While both Bill Buxton and Scott Jenson did fabulous keynote presentations, I came away a bit disappointed in what I experienced over the two days.
I was the only person […]

Having gone through a bit of a pain barrier trying to set-up network storage on my network at home I thought it might be useful to document how I got on.

I like the idea of network attached storage (NAS) - having a common drive available to any Mac on the network gives a lot […]

So right now I’m in New York getting ready for the upcoming Flashforward. Last night it was the 4th July, the first time I’ve been in the states for Independence Day. Looking round for something to do I found Rooftop Films. I’d seen this site before and thought it was a very cool idea, showing […]

This is pretty damn geeky but I’ve just installed Linux on my iPod! Why? Well like the creator of the Linux on iPod project says “because you can”. But the thing is this opens up the possibility of programs being written for the iPod, like a Flash card reader so you can simply plug in […]

The other week an underground fire in Manchester left mN (and many others) without any Internet connection for almost a week. Rather than have withdrawal systems it was actually quite liberating. No longer did I feel the need to check my email every few minutes — and any rate, most of what I get is […]

When I got my Lacie DVD RW for my iMac, I went through a bit of baptism of fire with the burner, DVD Studio Pro and also Toast 5. So I thought I’d pass on some of the things that I’ve learned in the hope that somebody might find this info useful.
DVD-R, Toast 5 and […]

If you ask me what my all time greatest piece of software is I will always reply “Photoshop”. It’s the tool that got me into this thing in the first place plus it’s one of the most intuitive programs I’ve ever had the pleasure to use.
But Lately I’ve been turning to Macromedia’s Fireworks for some […]

I’ve been busy the last few weekends setting up my iMac at home as an Apache server, just for my own use. Reading how to do it on the brilliant Mac Dev Center, I had it up and running in no time complete with PHP, MYSQL and even setting up a webDAV folder! Everything was […]