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Send HTML emails using GMail

Peter Moore — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:17:37 +0000

An excellent script for testing HTML emails, shame that GMail flags the message as a phishing email – good enough for testing though.

(1) make a copy of this Google Docs sheet. (2) Then Authorise the script by clicking ‘GMail’ > ‘HTML Mail’ which should appear next to ‘Help’ in the menu bar a few seconds after you’ve loaded the doc.

(3) Then create your HTML email, and after authorising the script (in Google docs), click ‘GMail’ > ‘HTML Mail’ again and send your message from there. Original article found here… http://www.labnol.org/internet/send-html-email/19672/

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London Taxi Parts Brand & eBay shop

Peter Moore — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:23:17 +0000

A brand design and ebay shop for a specialist auto spares company based in Wolverhampton.

The brand mark Uses Jonathan Patterson’s London Tube and Gill Sans typefaces and Christina Garfalo’s Seemless Patterns, made in Illustrator.
Visit the London Taxi Parts ebay shop by clicking this link.

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Use a USB pen to install Windows 7 on a Netbook or Laptop without a CD / DVD drive

Peter Moore — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:28:37 +0000

Handy for when you replace you hard disk in your netbook or Laptop and rather than cloning your old driveyou simply want a fresh install of windows. You’ll obviously need to get yourself a copy of Windows 7, either on a DVD or an ISO of the setup files and a 4GB or 8GB USB pen drive. We’re going to wipe the pen drive (or at least flag the data for deletion), create a primary partition, format the drive, mount the pen drive before copying across our windows 7 set-up files from a DVD.

1// open start > type ‘diskpart‘ > execute diskpart.exe > click ‘yes’ to the User account control window prompt

2// When diskpart is running in cmd window, type ‘list disk‘ >

3// Identify the your USB drive by the size of the disk – in this case it’s a 4GB (3700MB) drive – and type ‘select disk #‘ (where # is the number of your disk – in my case it was disk 6). Type ‘clean’ and press enter.

4// Type ‘create partition primary‘ and press enter. Type ‘active‘ and press enter. Type ‘format fs=fat32 quick’ or if the USB key is over 4GB type ‘format fs=ntfs quick‘

5// Type ‘assign‘ and windows will map a drive letter to the drive. Click ‘Open folder to view files and copy your windows set-up files across from your DVD to your USB drive. Use your USB pen to install your copy of windows to your netbook.

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Adobe Story : Scriptwriting software

Peter Moore — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:17:37 +0000

Just downloaded the offline version of Adobe Story: Adobe’s scriptwriting software to contend with the likes of FinalDraft and Celtex.
My first impressions of the software are that it is a little over the top and seems unnecessary (why not just use Word and Excel for production docs?) but I may be able to use this for a video project I’m working on so I’ll update this post with any features and benefits I can see with the software.

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We ♥ Lawns Project

Peter Moore — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:09:20 +0000

The We Love Lawns Project is off the ground and beginning to take flight.

Van livery, leaflet draft 1 and a holding page for the website are all done. Can’t wait to get cracking on the site design and build which is next on the list. I’ve recently been learning more about programming with JavaScript and I hope I can put what I’ve learned to good use the next time I mess with jQuery scripts. I plan to use quite a lot of JavaScript in this project as there will be an opportunity to add lots of before and after photos into a gallery and slideshow.

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Google Chrome Extensions

Peter Moore — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:29:19 +0000

Here is a quick list of the Chrome extensions that I use.

AddThis – Share & Bookmark (new) - Version: 2.0

bit.ly | a simple URL shortener - Version: 1.2.1.3

Chrome SEO - Version: 0.8

Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer (by Google) - Version: 3.1

Downloads - Version: 1

Eye Dropper - Version: 0.2.3

Firebug Lite for Google Chrome - Version: 1.3.1.7759

Google Chrome to Phone Extension - Version: 2.1.3

Google Docs - Version: 1.2

Google Mail Checker - Version: 3.1

Google Reader Notifier (by Google) - Version: 1.2

IE Tab - Version: 1.4.30.4

RSS Subscription Extension (by Google) - Version: 2.1.3

Send from Gmail (by Google) - Version: 1.11

SmoothScroll - Version: 0.9.8

StumbleUpon - Version: 2.9.8.1

Web Developer - Version: 0.3.1

Webpage Screenshot - Version: 5.0

Window Resizer - Version: 1.6.0

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Welcome to AddThis for Chrome!

Peter Moore — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:26:36 +0000

Welcome to AddThis for Chrome!

Add This! great little Chrome Extension to share webpages and tweet/blog/email in lightening-fast time.

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New Website Live: UKVauxhallSpares.co.uk

Peter Moore — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:57:09 +0000

I’m pleased that the UK Vauxhall Spares website is finished and published today. The site uses HTML, PHP, JQuery and CSS3.
More content to be added in the next few months to coincide with an Online ad campaign.

www.ukvauxhallspares.co.uk

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Make a background image into a link or make the whole DIV clickable

Peter Moore — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:28:59 +0000

…or you could use this CSS trick which makes a background image into a link…

Add a hyperlink in the div somewhere to place a text link in your div…

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…then set the id of the link to be a block element, set to display the background image and set the text of the link to indent way off the screen….

#pmlmedia-logo {
background-image:url(images/logo.png);
display:block;
height:58px;
text-indent:-9999px;
width:200px;
}

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Fix Page Shift with Overflow-y: hidden

Peter Moore — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:16:07 +0000

Ever had your page layout shift down when your page loads before the elements snap back into position?
Fix this by adding the ‘overflow:’ or ‘overflow-y:’ property to the wrapper that contains your elements that are jumping around onLoad and use the value ‘hidden’ or ‘scroll’ to stop your browser automatically setting this to ‘auto’.

#navwrapper {Overflow-y:hidden;}

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