Oliver Jobson

Category: Technology

  • Mobile Friendly Sites = User Unfriendly?

    Many agencies love mobile ‘friendly’ sites because it’s another item to bill a client for. Personally, I can’t stand mobile versions of websites. Very few are done well and consumers don’t buy modern smartphones (with fully capable browsers) just to be redirected to a crippled, impotent, information-shy version of the web.

  • Muxing MKV to MP4 file container without converting the video (for Apple / Samsung TV)

    I was trying to find a way to easily get MKV’s on to my TV, either by converting them to MP4/M4v and putting them in iTunes and out via the Apple TV or by streaming them directly to my Samsung TV. I did find a pretty good solution to this… but I recently wrote a…

  • Mod Rewrite – Redirect a request URI from subfolder to a higher folder on the webserver

    I googled this for ages but I could not find the answer – all the posts I found were about how to just re-write how urls were displayed, because you would usually use the redirect command in .htaccess in order to redirect the browser request to a different resource on the server. You wouldn’t usually…

  • Configuring SSL in MAMP 2.0.5 (the free version)

    I’ve been trying to configure my MAMP installation (NOT the paid version) to accept SSL for a recent project that I am working on. A lot of MAMP SSL tutorials are out dated and do not work for MAMP v2+ (2.0.5) and some just don’t seem to work so I had to do a lot…

  • Delivering web video to mobile devices..

    Lately I’ve been trying to get Video on to mobile devices and it’s a maze of techniques, settings, programs and codecs for every device and device model so below I’ll try to clear up some missunderstandings and include codecs, settings and techniques for delivering web video on to some of the most popular devices of

  • Load Balancing WordPress

    When we moved to WordPress, we ran into an issue with our load balanced servers – you can’t add a post to each server individually because of the unique post number added by wordpress when you publish – the post will have a different URL on each server which, because traffic could go to any…

  • MAMP (LAMP) for Mac – Hosting Multiple Sites (without the pro version)

    You don’t need to shell out for the pro version of MAMP to host multiple sites on your Mac. All it takes is a couple of tweaks behind the scenes. Once you have MAMP installed and working, configure MAMP to respond to web requests on port 80 (if you haven’t already done this). Next, simply…

  • Office 2011

    I finally made the move to office 2011 after using 2008 for waaaay too long and I have to say it is definitely worth it. Despite having 2008, I didn’t use entourage, the mac version of outlook, because it was bulky, slow and it didn’t really do much properly. Being a mac user, I don’t…

  • Retro photo styles

    Some nice tutorials on this site for finishing photo’s with some retro effects – there’s the ‘dark processed lomo‘ effect and the ‘Cool retro analog effect‘. Had a crack with this pic of me airborne in Fleine. No, I didn’t land it!