Phil Wylie

WordPress developer, Code Club volunteer & Staffs Web Meetup organiser

January 20, 2007 — 2

Charity fundraising 2006

A letter of thanks from the Jubilee Sailing Trust arrived this morning, it reminded me, I never posted how much money had been raised for both Talk Like A Pirate Day and the Sports Relief run I ran with Nick last year.

Jubilee Sailing Trust

Much thanks to those who bought the JST’s charity eye patches, I’d also like to thank Shrewsbury Sixth Form College and the friendly people at the Jolly Roger Card Craft shop, who were responsible for the distribution. Overall we raised £70 for the JST.

Sports Relief 2006, me and Nick ran, well I say ran, what I really mean is lightly jogged 🙂 on the 15th of July. It took a while to collect all the sponsorship, but I paid in just over £80.

December 20, 2006 — 0

Independence Day Net Neutrality Video!

This is the new video from savetheinternet.com just released today. It features a “Mars Attacks” theme, with the telcoms as the aliens and has appearances by John Hodgman (“I’m a PC” guy), Ask-a-Ninja, Amanda Congdon, Bill Moyers and many others. This video rebuts the FUD video the telcoms are sponsoring and puts out the facts.

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December 4, 2006 — 2

A lighter music player – musikCube

I dugg musikCube this morning after downloading and trying out this lightweight, simplistic looking music player. The download is just under 3MB, and its 2 – 4 MB memory usage while playing is far better than Windows Media Player 11’s 48MB!

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Fancy GUIs are nice but when I thought about it, my media player is usually minimised anyway. When minimised musikCube hides itself in your system tray, popping up balloon messages when tracks change.

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Its functionality can be increased with plug-ins, including an audioscrobbler plug-in, which means my last.fm profile will start getting updates! I’m going to give it a go for a while, it’s well worth a try.

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November 26, 2006 — 0

Latest projects

Evolution

After working with Nick, on several joint projects, we have decided to create a new brand for our products/services. Recently launched, our Evolution Blog will document the design and development of current and future projects.

HowToUseA.com

HowToUseA.com is an editable collection of random, mostly useless articles on how to use simple items. The original inspiration was to create a whole site reviewing light switches of all kinds, including in-depth information on how to use them, however I imagine that idea would have been rather boring. Instead we bought the more generic domain, allowing us to experiment with various wiki’s, allowing users to create pages on anything they wish.

November 15, 2006 — 0

Find out who gives away your email address with Gmail trick

When you give your email address to a website, you hope that they don’t sell or trade your address to a bunch of spammers. Well if they do, here is a simple way to see what sites are responsible for what particular piece of email. This requires you have a Gmail account.

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Update – 03/12/2013
You’re looking at an ancient post shared from Digg. The Internet Archive has a copy of the original post. Still an excellent tip which I use to this day. It’s interesting to see just how much data is shared. I used a price comparison site recently when looking for contents insurance. I rang one of the insurance companies direct to see if it’d result in a different price. I was asked basically the same questions and the resulting quote was identical so I went ahead and bought over the phone. I gave them my details and as a side note they asked to confirm whether they had the correct email address, they read my email address out including the suffix of a plus sign and the acronym I’d given the comparison site.
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