2012
- What is Old IE and designing for the desktop costing us? (Website Design)
- Win a copy of ‘Responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3′! (Website Design, Writing)
- The best code-editor for OSX is… (MacUser feature) (Writing)
- Understanding the CSS3 Flexbox (Flexible Box Layout Module) (Website Design)
- Create print styles using CSS3 @media queries (Website Design)
- A beginner/designers guide to using Modernizr to solve cross-browser challenges (Website Design)
- How to get code folding in Sass files for BBEdit 10 (Tech-tip, Website Design)
- Making a retina/high resolution image toggle for websites (Website Design)
- My first book: Responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3 (Website Design, Writing)
- My Wacom Intuos5 review – on the shelves in MacUser UK now (Writing)
- 2012 redesign of benfrain.com (Website Design)
- How to serve high-resolution website images for retina displays (new iPad/iPhone4) (Website Design)
- ‘Goldrush’ ancillary revenues feature in Airline Catering International (Writing)
- Another responsive design – Bridestone.co.uk now live (Website Design)
- ‘No Limits’ feature in MacUser (Writing)
- WordPress – how to strip inline image width and height attributes (for responsive designs) (Website Design)
- Espresso2 review now in MacUser magazine (on the shelves now) (Website Design, Writing)
- HDR Light Studio v3 & SprayTrace press releases (Writing)
2011
- Revised addecoltd.co.uk: responsive, built with Sass and loaded with CSS3 (Website Design)
- Discussing Android use in IFE piece for APEX (Writing)
- Truly responsive type units (vw, vh and vm) on the way (Website Design)
- Easily display the viewport size of your page (for responsive designs) (Website Design)
- How to easily add jQuery scripts to a WordPress Child Theme (Tech-tip, Website Design)
- Mail not opening after Lion install? Here’s the solution (Tech-tip)
- Plantronics Voyager Pro UC v2 review for MacUser (Writing)
- WordPress ultimate installation guide for MacUser magazine (Writing)
- Final Cut Pro X piece for MacUser magazine (Writing)
- Two in-flight entertainment features in Airline Entertainment supplement (Writing)
- OS X Subversion setup quick start (for use with Coda etc) (Tech-tip, Website Design)
- Version Control feature now published in MacUser magazine (Writing)
- Super quick PSD to HTML/CSS and jQuery conversion for sk-style.co.uk (Website Design)
- VW Passat ‘Vader’ advert – easily the funniest advert I have ever seen… (Personal)
- HDR Light Studio feature on Maurice Panisch (Writing)
- Free Coda CSS2 and CSS3 clips for solving common problems (Website Design)
- Magento – add an expanding accordion style vertical side menu (Website Design)
- Magento – how to add a cart summary to the header using local.xml (Tech-tip, Website Design)
- SSD Obtibay upgrade Feature/How-to in latest MacUser magazine (Writing)
- Canon IXUS 220 HS Review (Writing)
- Couple of Magento development books that are worth a look… (Website Design)
- A few WordPress development tips, tricks and shortcuts (Website Design)
- 2011 MacBook Pro update. Apple – please ditch the optical drive! (Rant, Tech-tip)
- Final Cut Pro technology writing for Video Focus magazine (Writing)
- My incredibly popular PSD to HTML/CSS and jQuery service (Website Design)
2010
- Migrate IMAP mail accounts and messages from one server to another (Tech-tip)
- Magento: how to add a jQuery image and content carousel (Website Design)
- Cubecart: how to add sub-category descriptions to product pages (Website Design)
- A beginner’s guide to Web Hosting (Computer Active feature) (Writing)
- How to add an expanding sidebar menu to your Cubecart store with jQuery (Tech-tip, Website Design)
- The best and comfiest indoor football (Futsol) trainers (Personal)
- Cubecart: How to show sub-categories in the sidebar (Tech-tip, Website Design)
- iTunes 10 doesn’t work on NAS drives, how to downgrade to iTunes 9.2 (Tech-tip)
- Sharing photos between PC’s and Mac’s with a NAS drive – possible in iLife11? (Writing)
- 2010 Buffalo LinkStation Mini Review (LS-WSX1) (Writing)
- Addecoltd.co.uk goes live (Website Design)
- A plea to the Working Tax Credits department of HM Revenue & Customs (Personal)
- Beginners guide to HTML5, what you need to know and how to use it. (Tech-tip, Website Design, Writing)
- iOS 4 is well worth the update (Personal, Writing)
- £150 off laser eye surgery at Optical Express. Optical Express voucher for money off. (Personal)
- Lost ‘The End’ season finale – a discussion… (Personal)
- Ever had one of these clients…? (Personal, Website Design)
- Building the Healthy Retreat e-commerce website with Foxycart (Website Design)
- Review of Audi A1 vs Mini Cooper (Personal)
- Magento upgrades will kill your store (probably) (Tech-tip, Website Design)
- Remove all products in your Magento store with PHPMyAdmin (Tech-tip, Website Design)
- Test your website on the iPhone simulator (Tech-tip, Website Design)
- benfrain.com 2010 redesign (Personal, Website Design)
- XHTML & CSS coding for Virtual Trader (Website Design)
- The most watchers you’ve had on an ebay item? (Personal)
- MAMP Error – “You don’t have permission to access /MAMP/ on this server.” (Tech-tip, Website Design)
- Chicubes 2010 re-design. Cubecart enhanced with jQuery (Website Design)
- Internet Explorer 6: let’s kill it… (Website Design)
- Adding Jquery and jquery lightbox to Cubecart 4 (Tech-tip, Website Design)
- How to setup MAMP and Coda for Cubecart development (Tech-tip, Website Design)
2009
- Review: Twelve South SurfacePad (Writing)
- HTML5 feature by Ben Frain in MacUser magazine (Writing)
- 21.5″ iMac screen bezel damage and misalignment (Personal, Tech-tip)
- Beginners guide to CSS: article in Computer Active (Writing)
- New Cooper D engines in January 2010, Cooper S Diesel and Mini One Diesel coming in 2010 (Personal)
- Windows 7 WASN’T my idea! (Rant)
- Review of Knomo Stirling Messenger bag: a perfect MacBook carry case? (Writing)
- Wired Apple Magic Mouse? (Personal)
- OSX Widgets not working in Snow Leopard? (Tech-tip)
- Crucial M225 performance review: what difference does an SSD make to a MacBook Pro? (Tech-tip, Writing)
- How do I make my PC or Mac faster? A beginners guide to why you need an SSD drive… (Writing)
- iPhone 3GS ‘No Service’ on 3G with O2 (Tech-tip)
- Joke: A rabbit walks into a bar… (Personal)
- Netgear ReadyNAS Duo review and replacement fan suggestions (Tech-tip, Writing)
- How to dismantle a Western Digital MyBook Pro Edition hard drive (Tech-tip, Writing)
- Michael Owen will score 25 goals next season (Personal)
- Mr Whippy Ice Cream website (Website Design)
- Location/GPS feature for Computer Active magazine (Writing)
- Proof: The Americans won World War 2! (Rant)
- iPhone 3GS review (Writing)
- Augmented reality – possible with the iPhone 3GS (Tech-tip, Writing)
- WordPress problem – CSS code in your Manage themes section? (Tech-tip, Website Design)
- Review of Final Draft 8 (Writing)
- No sound in Windows 7? (Tech-tip)
- Add quick launch to the Windows 7 taskbar (Tech-tip)
- How to get Windows Mail in Windows 7 RC (Tech-tip)
- Windows 7 RC – looking good… (Tech-tip)
- The best screenwriting software for Windows and Mac (Writing)
- Genie Backup Server 8 not restoring SQL files? Failed to restore GBM xdat file. (Tech-tip)
- Can’t view shared folders in Vista using VirtualBox? Here’s how… (Tech-tip)
- Bush BD01 Blu-ray player from Argos won’t play Quantum Of Solace? (Tech-tip)
- Review of 2009 iMac (Writing)
- Sending mails with Orange taking forever? (Tech-tip)
- Migrating from Blogger to WordPress (FTP blogs) (Tech-tip)
- Google Street View and the erosion of freedom (Personal, Rant)
- POLITICS: Gordon Brown gets a verbal slapping… (Personal)
- TECH: Faster broadband anytime soon? (Personal, Tech-tip)
- OSX: Converting Parallels or VMWare to VirtualBox (Tech-tip)
- REVIEW: Nike Five Zoom T-7 football trainers (Personal, Writing)
- TECH: iPhone 3.0 software event (Personal, Tech-tip)
- RANT: Sometimes I just want to watch the earth burn… (Rant)
- WRITING: Computer Active feature (Writing)
- TECH: iMac hard drive upgrade (Tech-tip)
- TECH: An undocumented 2008 Macbook ‘feature’? (Tech-tip)
- TECH: Introducing Mac ‘Ho (Personal, Writing)
- MAC: MacBook, MacBook Pro, Mac Middle and the LED Cinema display (Personal, Tech-tip)
- REVIEW: Samsung SM2433BW Monitor (Personal, Tech-tip)
- WEB: New www.buyit247.com 2009 site design (Website Design)
- LASEK: Lasek Eye Laser Treatment, recovery and results at Optical Epress (Personal)
2008
- X360 – how to reset display settings for the VGA lead (Tech-tip)
- POLITICS: A VAT decrease will cost us millions (Personal, Rant)
- TV: I despair (Personal, Rant)
- TECH: iPhone 2.2 and still no MMS or cut and paste (Tech-tip)
- WRITING: Computer Buyer video feature (Writing)
- TECH: The answer to Blu-ray adoption? (Tech-tip)
- TECH: iPhone – where the hell is TomTom? (Tech-tip)
- TECH: Podcaster App for iPhone (Tech-tip)
- BOOK: First Light by Geoffrey Wellum (Personal)
- WRITING: Computer Buyer Mobile feature (Writing)
- WEB: healthyretreat.co.uk re-design now live (Website Design)
- SPEED: Have we got it all wrong? (Rant)
- TECH: 96% of an Orange e-mail account is spam… (Rant, Tech-tip)
- GLOBAL WARMING: Nelson’s gas guzzling HMS Victory? (Personal, Rant)
- FILM: The Dark Knight… (Personal, Writing)
- TECH: Mobile phones, SARS figures and cancer… (Personal, Tech-tip)
- MTB: Ghetto Tubeless, the what, why and how… (Personal)
- TECH: Scared of Wi-Fi but want internet around the house? (Personal, Tech-tip)
- TECH: iPhone 3G initial impressions and 2.0.1 wishlist (Personal, Tech-tip, Writing)
- TECH: Why iPhone under-performs in the UK: still no PAYG… (Personal, Tech-tip)
- TECH: O2 iPhone 3G PAYG price accidentally revealed? (Personal, Tech-tip)
- TECH: iPhone 3G – PAYG, how much? (Personal, Rant, Tech-tip)
- WEB: Webfusion – what no sendmail? (Tech-tip, Website Design)
- WEB: Valley Stone Ltd website up (Website Design)
- POLITICS: Petition against the Lisbon Treaty (Personal, Rant)
- FLYING: An argument against ballistic chutes (Personal)
- WEB: Google Maps – finding the GLatLng setting (Tech-tip, Website Design)
- Politics: EIRE – our final hope… (Personal, Rant)
- TECH: iPhone2 a.k.a. iPhone 3G (Tech-tip, Writing)
- TECH: Orange – get some working spam filters (Personal, Tech-tip)
- WRITING: Colorista review for MacUser (Writing)
- WRITING: Squeeze 5 review for Digital Arts (Writing)
- WRITING: Basic video editing tutorials for Which? (Writing)
- MTB: Llandegla black runs (Personal)
- TECH: Great new (FREE) Symbian weather application (Tech-tip, Writing)
- MTB: Cli-Machx trail (Personal)
- SPORT: The pursuit of perfect indoor football trainers (Personal)
- RANT: Ebay – the greediest company in the world? (Personal, Rant)
- POLITICS: The global warming con (Personal, Rant)
- RANT: Plastic Bloody Bags (Rant)
- TECH: N95 8GB – short battery life? (Tech-tip)
- TECH: Symbian – the good and the un-answered… (Tech-tip)
- TECH: About those missing iPhones… (Tech-tip, Writing)
- TECH: Symbian and the Nokia N95 8GB (Tech-tip)
- TECH: Have Apple and O2 done enough to tempt you yet? (Tech-tip, Writing)
- WRITING: The Guardian ‘Making Video’ guide (Writing)
- WEB: buyit247.com update (Website Design)
- TECH: UK iPhone: Something’s got to give. (Personal, Tech-tip)
2007
- GAMING: The most addictive game ever…? (Personal)
- WRITING: Final Cut Express 4 review hitting shops soon (Writing)
- RANT: Get off the phone when you are being served! (Rant)
- MTB: Penmachno loop2 – disappointing… (Personal)
- TECH: Western Digital MyBook Pro and OSX Time Machine (Tech-tip)
- TV: Commando: On the front line (Personal)
- WEB: Anyone for ice cream? (Website Design)
- GAMING: PES2008 is a mess (Personal)
- FILM: 3 great flops, 3 terrible hits (Personal)
- TV: Best. Advert. Ever… (Personal)
- VIDEO: POV.1 Action Camera (Tech-tip, Writing)
- GPS: Why no digital mapping for OSX? (Tech-tip, Writing)
- TV: ITV back to making quality drama (Personal)
- WEB: Stupid sodding pop-up windows! (Rant, Website Design)
- RANT: Nike/Adidas – make some indoor football shoes for the 30+ players! (Personal)
- POLITICS: EU Referendum – Vote here! (Personal, Rant)
- MTB: Penmachno trail in North Wales (Personal)
- SCREENWRITING: Great podcast (Personal, Writing)
- WRITING: Screenwriter 6 available (Writing)
- WRITING: Digital Cinema feature in Digital Video magazine (Writing)
- WRITING: Sony FX7E Review in Digital Video magazine (Writing)
- WRITING: Masterclass articles in MacUser (Writing)
- TV: Lost season 4 – flash forwards? (Personal)
- TV: Heroes: Season One – ultimately disappointing (Personal)
- MTB: Marin Trail in North Wales (Personal)
- WRITING: Final Cut Studio 2 – Digital Video UK review (Writing)
- WRITING: MacBook Pro 17" review for Digital Video UK (Writing)
- MTB: Video footage of MTB rides (Personal)
- WRITING: Screenwriting article for Digital Video (Writing)
- WEB: www.pc-interworks.co.uk now live (Website Design)
- TV: 24 is now officially crap… (Personal)
- FILM: The Golden Compass aka The Northern Lights (Personal)
- POLITICS: The thin end of the wedge? (Personal, Rant)
- FILM/TV: When will Hollywood wise up? (Personal)
- POLITICS: Long haul flights responsible for global warming on Mars (Personal, Rant)
- GPS: Starbuck Point Of Interest file (Tom Tom) (Personal)
- NHS: A+E – in, x-rayed, diagnosed and out in 1 hour! (Personal)
- WRITING: Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 review in shops next month (Writing)
- SPAM: Every so often one makes up for all the junk… (Personal)
- CARS: Mini Cooper D test drive (Personal, Writing)
- TECH: Final Cut Studio 2? Not on Mac Mini. Why Apple needs a ‘Mac Middle’ (Tech-tip, Writing)
- TECH: OSX – Next version delayed and it’s a very simple feature I am most eager to get my mits on! (Personal, Tech-tip, Writing)
- MTB: Routes travelled, interactive map (Personal)
- MTB: The MBR mountain bike trail in north Wales (Personal)
- POLITICS: speakout.co.uk – time for a referendum on Europe? (Personal, Rant)
- POLITICS: Politics Idol (Personal, Rant)
- TECH: OSX – sleep shortcut not working – the fix! (Tech-tip)
- GENERAL: How coffee is decaffeinated (Personal, Tech-tip)
- RANT: TV – Help! My dog is fatter than me! (Personal, Rant)
- RANT: Most annoying advert? (Rant)
- TECH: Dodgy RSS feed from Blogger – workaround (Tech-tip, Website Design)
- TV/POLITICS: The Great Global Warming Swindle (Personal, Rant)
- POLITICS: The real reason labour are pushing for road tolls? (Personal, Rant)
- TV: Heroes – the jury is out… (Personal)
- TECH: great FREE OSX newsletter program (Tech-tip)
- TECH: Always win that auction on ebay (Tech-tip)
- FOOTBALL: England – get some stability in the line up! (Personal, Rant)
- WRITING: Digital Video tutorial in shops (Writing)
- WRITING: Great TV/film writers podcast (Writing)
- FLYING: Source for mock exam questions – NPPL (Personal)
- TECH: An easy ‘contact us’ script for websites (Tech-tip, Website Design)
- Front end web developer and website designer in Manchester and Cheshire (Website Design)
- Freelance website design in Stoke On Trent and Staffordshire (Website Design)
- WRITING: Digital Video magazine, where to subscribe (Writing)
- WRITING: Making video footage more like film (Writing)
- POLITICS: BBC racist? Do they deserve our licence fee? (Rant)
- TECH: OSX – ‘Minimise all’ or rather ‘where’s my desktop’? (Tech-tip)
- POLITICS: EU trying to ban ‘violent’ computer games (Personal, Rant)
- Website Design for Congleton, Cheshire and Manchster (Website Design)