Archives / 2009

  • Alpine Image Converter 2

    12 July 2009
    Hello everybody,

    A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (last year on here) there was a tool for people who, like me, own a certain Alpine in car head unit. A magical tool that enabled magical things (loose definition of magic being used here). A tool for the Alpine IDA-X100 and now the Alpine IDA-X305 (I'm told the latter works too, but alas I have none to test on).

    Basically, cutting all the nonsense, these head units have a nice LCD display on them, with a nice swooshy blue or red backdrop. The …
  • Happy Birthday Victoria / Web Poacher

    28 June 2009
    It was my friends' birthday the other week, and I haven't got much money to spare. So I cheapskated her and made her a present.

    Basically, I made her Web Poacher. If you've ever needed to download a whole website, then this tool will help you. To give you an idea of her predicament and why she will find it useful, I will explain it to you. Good that, innit?

    So, my friend Victoria makes websites for people. She's very good and I can recommend her services at her wonderful site. She's quite professional and …
  • The end of the beginning

    28 June 2009
    Welcome to my new blog - on here you will find the musings, mutterings and ramblings of me on my journey through programming.

    Except, no one ever reads the first blog post, because nobody yet knows about the blog. When they do eventually know about it, they're hardly ever likely to think "Ooh, I know what, I'll go and read their introductorary blog post, that'll be useful, informative and interesting". So to anyone reading this: why? Thanks, though. No, really.

    So, without further ado or spangly fanciness and noise, let the blogging commence.

    I'll leave with with …