http://www.penny4them.com Mark Wilkinson Blog Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:11:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This weekend was a busy front on our socialising calendar!  On Friday it was a family meal for my Grand Father in Laws birthday and then on Saturday it was off to Liverpool for a belated Wedding party.  It was nice to spend time with family and friends. On Friday night ... http://www.penny4them.com/2008/a-social-weekend/ As readers of this blog, and friends will know I am a keen Apple fan.  So much so that I have 3 Apple computers in my collection - two Mac Mini's and a MacBook.  It is the Mac Book that I want to concentrate on in this article.  In particular ... http://www.penny4them.com/2008/optimize-macbook-battery/ RSS feeds are a great way to keep up to date with your favourite blogs and websites without having to visit the sites every day.  In Firefox you can subscribe to RSS feeds from your favourite sites without having to use additional software.  In this tutorial I will show you ... http://www.penny4them.com/2008/firefox3-rss/ I often get asked and also see in the WordPress forums online, about how make it so that the header of your WordPress blog is clickable to a link (like having the green highlighted area below clickable), probably your home page link, as many don't have a home page as ... http://www.penny4them.com/2008/clickable-header/ For a while now I have kept seeing stunning panoramic photos on the web and wondered how on earth those photos were taken or created.  Well after a little more extensive research today I have found out that they are really simple, thanks to Photoshop CS3. The image above was created ... http://www.penny4them.com/2008/panoramic-photos/ I know that a few of you have been trying to find my wedding photographs on this site.  Well it seems as though something has gone wrong in that the flash player embed that they were in is no longer working. Therefore here is a section of the photos below as ... http://www.penny4them.com/2008/mywedding/ As you will undoubtedly know WordPress is a great web publishing tool but one of the things that really excites people is that fact that you can extend WordPress's capabilities with a multitude of 'plugins' that give your WordPress site extra capability.  In fact there are so many plugins out ... http://www.penny4them.com/2008/my-favourite-wordpress-plugins/ Penny4Them started out in the summer of 2006 as a small site where I stored some photographs of friends and family so others could see what was up to.  Since then it developed into a proper blog, using WordPress as the platform for publishing. Today I am launching Penny4Them version ... http://www.penny4them.com/2008/the-new-penny4them/ The Olympics are now over for another 4 years, but what a fantastic Olympic Games it has been in terms of Team GB. 19 golds, 13 silver and 15 bronze medals. Our best performance for 100 years. Not only that but we are 4th in the medal ... http://www.penny4them.com/2008/team-gb-success/ Today was the 20 week scan of Baby Wilkinson and it was the time to find out the sex of the baby. Helen has been convinved ever since the start of the pregnancy that it was a girl but I thought it was a boy. In fact I ... http://www.penny4them.com/2008/its-a-boy/