Handy PHP Error Checking Tool

If you like me recently upgraded PHP, you will no doubt be wanting to do some error checking... but not just errors, deprecation warnings, notices etc... this quick tool helps you set and show exactly what you need...

http://www.bx.com.au/tools/ultimate-php-error-reporting-wizard

Leap Motion

What is this exactly???

Well - best described by it's developers... "This isn’t a game system that roughly maps your hand movements.  The Leap technology is 200 times more accurate than anything else on the market — at any price point. Just about the size of a flash drive, the Leap can distinguish your individual fingers and track your movements down to a 1/100th of a millimeter."

The possibilities for interactive displays is exciting!
Check out the video on their website.

Speed test your website!

Another useful tool form the folks at Googley...
Really only interesting if you are a developer.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights

- Thanks Tom!

How do I clear my browser cache?

So many times we have clients ask us how to clear their browser cache. Well thanks to wikiHow, there is a handy page just about this. Although understandably they have not caught up to the latest Firefox version (who can keep up?), all the major browsers are covered.

Check it out: http://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser%27s-Cache

Search Social Network Posts

One of the best social network searching tools I have found... as in - it works and is easy to use! Search to see what posts have been made about a certain topic or company etc.

TOPSY.

Facebook Username

Thanks Facebook... before you used to have to wait until you had 25+ likes to your page... but now you can set a username for your page straight away! Just remember, you can't change it once it's set.

Why does this matter? Well, by setting a username you can have a shorter URL...

EG: www.facebook.com/MilkDigital

Adobe confirms Flash Player is dead for mobile devices... sorta...

So read the title to a new Engadget article. But this is a bit misleading...

Right now you can get Flash Player 11, which is fully optimised for hardware acceleration. Adobe is also soon to release Flash Player 12. What Engadget failed to do, was actually link to the full story by Adobe. What Adobe was basically saying is, they want to concentrate on HTML5 and Adobe Touch Apps (AIR) for use on mobile devices. Flash Player for mobile devices will still be supported with updates for security and big fixes. They will also continue to develop the desktop Flash player.

I for one welcome this focus on HTML5... hopefully it will mean we will have the tools to do next year what Flash has been doing for ten years! Now we just need IE to die too!  :-)

It should have read:"Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to More Aggressively Contribute to HTML5" - http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/flash-focus.html