Technology

iTunes 12 – Style over Substance

 Steven Kellow    Music, Technology

Apple’s bi-annual re-launch of their flagship media player, iTunes, came last week with an attempt to re-align the program towards their new desktop and mobile operating systems and to push integration with their Store even further.  There are a lot of new visual changes and reorganisation of items, but little in the way of real improvement.   iTunes is still a necessary evil for me. This is iTunes 12, the first major update since 2012’s new iteration which, for me at least, was a great piece — Read more →

Must-have WordPress Plugins

 Steven Kellow    Technology

This summer has turned me from someone who thought WordPress was cool and a great way of easily building a website into a massive WordPress fan, believing that you can do almost anything with it given the right tools. I chose it last year when I kicked off this site because it allowed you to pick a theme that looked good, let you add and edit posts quickly and efficiently.  That was my thought process, more-or-less in full.  It was only when I started thinking — Read more →

My Summer Projects

 Steven Kellow    Personal, Technology

The summer’s nearly over, which is strange considering it feel like it only just begun not too long ago, but that also means that I’m able to share what I’ve been developing at my work – and I’m proud of it. First up is the new OnlineTEFLCourses website.  OnlineTEFLCourses allows people from all over the world to train to teach English as a Foreign Language.  The brand launched in December 2012, but since then the website and brand had remained largely unchanged and was in — Read more →

Moving your website between hosts

 Steven Kellow    Technology

Until you get involved in the behind-the-scenes work of the internet its real, unfathomable complexity is blissfully hidden.  Getting involved in building websites, though, has led me to see the messy and difficult processes involved in making some of the most simple things you can do with a website work. This weekend I changed hosting provider from GoDaddy to Justhost.  There were a few reasons for my decision: Justhost was cheaper, allowed me to do more with my domain and had better customer support for — Read more →

Modern Plagiarism?

 Steven Kellow    Miscellaneous, Technology  

It might be easier than ever to find out what’s going on in the world, or discover old facts you would never have dreamed of knowing otherwise, because of the internet – but despite its overwhelming advantages, there are some negatives that are slowly becoming more influential on our wider culture. Technology is a double-edged sword in that although making new content and news is as simple as it has ever been, copying that content and claiming it as your own is too.  Entire works — Read more →

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