There is a small know feature of Windows 7 that will allow you to feed your desktop background from an RSS feed.
What use could this be? Well desktop artists like Ryan Bliss (Digital Blasphemy) create several new images a month and you may not want to download them manually.
Ryan has …

Just been reading an article on Pingdom about the new redirects on websites.
So I thought I would play and see how many redirects I could add to one page using short ulr’s.
You would have come through
1) Google’s Goo.gl short URL
2) Bit.ly
3) Tinyulr.com
4….. any more I found along the way!

Well, the weekend is very nearly over and your back to work tomorrow. What techy things can you talk about over coffee, what advances have been made? Well let me round it all up for you.
Intel Sells Software upgradeable CPU’s
Intel have decided that selling CPU’s at their true speed is …

I have just put up a code example showing how you can create a user membership area.
Simply head over to my new page (http://vincent.willcox.tk/php-user-login-registration/)

This is one of my first new Fractals in a while. It was created by just playing with some of the settings – a sort of happy accident!
What do you think?

This is another fractal I originally created a few years back. But since I now have a better machine, I have upped the resolution to 1920 x 1200 (widescreen). I have also increased the detail slighly by rendering with higher settings (thank you 8Gb ram!)

Since I have had an iPhone, I have built up a collection of software that I literally can’t leave the house without. So I want to share with you, the list of apps I think every iPhone user should have installed.
Games

Solitaire City
Scramble 2
Ragdoll Blaster 2
Doodle Jump

Applications

Trillian
PingChat! 2
HootSuite
Tube Deluxe
National Rail
NextBuses
Sky+
Air Video
Facebook

Cydia …

During my downtime, I like to play with different things on my computer. One of those is Flame Fractals (wikipedia link). These are interesting art created using mathamatical scripts to create recuring fractals.
I use a tool called Apophysis to create them as it can be done visually with no math …