Kill Deep Linking...

If you are using Word Press you not doubt are using plugins too... many of which have little foibles such as jQuery from prettyPhoto displaying extra info at end of your URL when you use a popover gallery or after closing it. To disable this, open your prettyPhoto.js file and set deep linking to false.

Also do this:

Replace: clearHashtag(){url=location.href;hashtag=(url.indexOf('#!prettyPhoto'))?true:false;if(hashtag)location.hash="!prettyPhoto";}

With: clearHashtag(){url=location.href;hashtag=(url.indexOf('#!'))?true:false;if(hashtag)location.hash="";}

No more "#!prettyPhoto" or other nonsense...

Enjoy!

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