Came about a very useful command the other day ( well maybe not command but feature ) in Firefox that lets you check the memory usage of the browser. Seems that FireFox + a few plugins always start to eat up memory on me. I don’t have that many plugins installed YSlow / Adblock and a few others you can see below So why not throw about:memory into the URL bar and you get to see some interesting stuff. Seemed a bit high to me. I killed the browser and started it again and suddenly we’re down to Wonder if I removed all the plugins if things would stabilize a bit but then it’s pretty...

ATTENTION DON’T UPGRADE BEFORE MAKING A COPY OF LION AS IT DELETES ITSELF If you’d like to make a copy of Lion you’ll need to download it with the App Store as normal BUT don’t upgrade just yet why not make a backup of it first? Take a look over at http://lifehacker.com/5823096/how-to-burn-your-own-lion-install-dvd-or-flash-drive Of course I didn’t know this before and won’t be downloading it again though I’d like to have a copy of...

In general I resize images before I upload them to WordPress and as a result I disable the click the image link. However I noticed no nice lightbox (click image and it pops up rather than taking you to a page with just the image) effect as so sent up a call on twitter if anyone knew a quick plugin that’ll work with existing content and hey presto twitter.com/thelinden ( Barry Walsh ) gets back to me in seconds mentioning ShadowBox JS. God I really love twitter sometimes can save you ages looking up things and  making up a forum post and so on. Cheers Barry and you can see the results on my...

One of the most common questions I see over on the likes boards.ie or iwf.ie is, which domain extension should I get? I’m always quite surprised by the question I have to admit. Usually people want to know if they should market their business as the .ie (Irish Country Code Top Level Domain – cctld) or the .com and which they should buy. Me being me I think to myself idiots the .com costs about six quid and the .ie costs about 20 quid. You’re talking 26 quid to have both and I mean if both are available I’ll always be saying to take them. So why are people so hesitant on...

One thing I hate is when a website goes to all the trouble of making up a nice design (or even just grabbing a template and putting it up) and then they don’t go ahead and create a Favicon or worse still in my mind they use the default one that came with the CMS they are using. ARGH! So what can you do … well really you’ve no excuse there are a multitude of free online favicon generators out there. I however prefer being able to do things from within my trusty version of Photoshop. I’m running Photoshop CS3 and thankfully there is a nice little plugin for it from the lovely...