Simon Wheatley

Author: simonwheatley

  • Eject a CD/DVD from a Mac (Mini)

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    Hold down F12 for 2 seconds to eject a CD or DVD. Especially useful for those situations where the CD/DVD icon hasn’t appeared on the desktop for some reason.

  • Co-ordinate Conversions (Postcode Map)

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    “A Java package which provides a simple API to allow conversion between OSGB (Ordnance Survey of Great Britain) grid references, UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) references and latitude and longitude.” (More grist for the Arts & Kids events listing.)

  • A guide to coordinate systems in Great Britain

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    “A primer on coordinate system concepts, including full information on GPS and Ordnance Survey coordinate systems.” Useful for converting latitude/longditude into OS co-ordinates (which we’re looking at for an events listing guide for Arts & Kids).

  • Web Usability – Source Order, Skip links and Structural labels

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    Research into the relevance and importance of source order, skip links and structural labels for screen readers: Screen reader users expect the main navigation to be presented before the information content; source order is not relevant to screen readers.

  • Feeding WordPress

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    The first round of enhancing the site is complete: my Last.FM journal articles and del.icio.us bookmarks are now republished here.

  • Right align your form fields

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    It is [this guy’s] argument that “It will take less time and effort to fill up the right aligned form in comparison with the left aligned one”. Seems compelling, maybe I need to re-examine my forms in Startershop? (via Snook)

  • Space Invader

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    A space invader made with ceramic tiles as the pixels. I saw one of these in Manchester recently, near the Palace Hotel, but didn’t have a camera with me. They look great.

  • Aha

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    Finally I get around to updating my site to use something more sophisticated than hand written HTML. It’s a start. Things that were on the left are (probably) on the right now. Oh, apart from Dress-a-Doll which gets it’s own link above.

  • “I Predict a Riot” – barbershop stylee

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    Run, don’t walk, over to the Kaiser Chiefs official site, where for 3 days you can download the Cheshire Chord Company cover of Kaiser Chiefs – I Predict a Riot. Absolutely brilliant. Update 06/01/22: You can listen to a clip of I Predict a Riot (BBC ReadlAudio stream), from a BBC news article. The track…

  • Richard Hawley & Pulp?

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    I hadn’t realised that Richard Hawley was the guitarist with Pulp. Wikipedia’s article on Richard mentions his time with Pulp, but the Wikipedia article on Pulp doesn’t mention his involvement. I think he was guitarist on the tour in support of Pulp – This Is Hardcore, and maybe didn’t do any studio work with them……