As a web designer, copywriter and marketer I find my iPad an invaluable piece of kit. The iPad is one of the most popular tablets in the world. Apple sold 170 million by October 2013. In the period from June to September 2013 alone, Apple sold 14.1 million iPads and 33.8 million iPhones. iPads are not perfect and they are still a long way from replacing the laptop but they are very useful, particularly when out and about. In September 2013, Apple stated they had ONE million apps in their App … [Read more...]
Top 10 Reasons Why I Use Evernote
Evernote® is a very useful note-taking app with many applications that automatically saves to the cloud and syncs to all your desktop and mobile devices. You may create an unlimited number of notes in an unlimited number of notebooks. Evernote will install on your PC or Mac, Apple iPad or iPhone, Android or Blackberry devices or may be used as a web-based app using your internet browser. Free and paid accounts are available. A free account is ample for basic note-taking. When I bought … [Read more...]
Adding Custom Apple and Windows 8 Homescreen Icons to WordPress
Bookmarking Icons for your Homescreen Apple iPhones, iPod Touch and iPad, and Windows 8 internet-enabled devices all have the ability to save individual bookmarks (or Favorites as Windows calls them) to the Homescreen (Metro Start Screen in Windows). You may create and add custom icons to your website which will be appear when a user adds your bookmark link to their Homescreen. Create your icons Firstly you will need to create your icons. You may either use a template to design your … [Read more...]
Quick Guide to Vendor Prefixes for CSS3 Properties
Adding vendor prefixes to your code UPDATE: in a recent press release (May 2013), Opera described their transition to the WebKit engine. You will still need to use the -o- for older versions of the Opera browser. As web standards develop internet browsers also evolve. Unfortunately they do not always develop at the same pace. In order to make new CSS3 features work in current web browsers, we have to use vendor prefixes for some of the new CSS3 properties. With the introduction of CSS3 … [Read more...]