Disco Beta Review

There's not been that much in the world of software that I've as eagerly anticipated as the release of the beta for Disco [http://discoapp.com]. Made by the same people that made appZapper disco is a CD/DVD burning app like no other. The interface…

Getting relative form actions with javascript

The other day I needed to get data from a form and manipulate the "get" manually through javascript. For that to happen I needed to obtain the action attribute of the form. The action of this specific form had to be a relative url. What I found through…

iTunes pegged my CPU at over 130%?

Today whilst I was working I noticed that my system (a MacBook Pro) had slowed to a crawl. To investigate I ran top from the terminal only to see this: I then noticed the following dialogue when I switched to iTunes: iTunes was updating my iPod with the few thousand…

Back from Provence

We arrived back in England a week ago last Sunday, after a couple of days travelling up from Montfrin [http://maps.google.fr/maps?f=q&hl=fr&q=montfrin&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1]. We had a really good time, it's…

Opera Backstage Event, London

Opera Software are running a special event in London on the 17th October at the Metra Bar, Leicester Square. The evening will feature a presentation about the vision of the company and new features coming out in the future and is aimed at web designers, developers and end-users alike. The…