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Updates to Contacular PHP Contact Forms – Now at version 0.15

I’ve posted about Contacular a while ago. Contacular is my solution to the problem of reinventing the wheel for PHP-powered contact forms on websites. It allows you to quick and easily create a fully functional, e-mailing, self-validating contact form that you can integrate with any website that is on PHP enabled server. If you’re interested
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The iPad and its effect on the Mobile Web

I recently wrote an article on the company blog regarding the Apple iPad and its potential effect on the mobile web. “The release of Apple’s ever popular smartphone, the iPhone, back in mid 2007 caused a huge development spike in websites and dynamic web applications designed the mobile devices. Of course, the vast majority of these
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Contacular PHP Contact Form

This is just a quick post to announce the recent start of one of my recent open source projects, Contacular. I have been building up Contacular’s overall feature set over the past week, having made the initial release on the 25th of January 2010. I now believe it is worthy of a post here, based
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vBulletin Fake User Plugin – Good or bad?

This article is pulled from a previous site of mine, and relates to the starting of a forum board and the negative cycle of not having enough users registered to entice new users to join. It primarily focuses around the idea of using a vBulletin plugin to artificially inflate the number of online users in
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Google Chrome OS – A Simple Explanation

Google have released a very simple explanatory video, aimed at new computer users, detailing their new operating system which is focused around the Google Chrome web browser. If you’ve ever needed to ask, what is the difference between Google Chrome OS and Google Chrome, this video explains the answer in the simplest manner possible. Google Chrome
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Wikipedia Donations – Help keep Wikipedia free

I just donated to Wikipedia’s latest fund raising attempt. Being one of my primary resources for information, and an authority on almost any subject under, including and above the Sun, I feel the donation is well worth doing. I recommend anyone who can afford to make the donation and values the information and functionality Wikipedia [ READ MORE ]

Dropbox – Backing up your files in the cloud with Dropbox

Originally released in September of 2008, Dropbox has grown to be an enormously useful and popular online storage solution. Although Dropbox functions as a storage solution, its most welcoming features are the live synchronisation and sharing features the software and service provides. For those who have been missing out, Dropbox is incredibly simple to use. Essentially,
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