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What, who, where am I?!?
Craig Lotter is a web developer based in Gordon's Bay, South Africa, who seems completely incapable of shaking off that pesky inner child within, the one that forces him to love all things animated or hand drawn.
The Rugged Rock of Craig contains snippets of his life, popular culture and all the important things like anime, manga, games and comic books. The CodeUnit of Craig on the other hand contains the more serious stuff like code snippets and tutorials, while the House of C chronicles his foray into the world of web comics.
For which it never seems he has enough time anyway.
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Category Archives: Software & Websites
Managing the files on Your iPod: CopyTrans Manager – An Alternative to iTunes!
I am not a particularly big media consumer, especially when it comes to my iPod, but I do enjoy taking it along to my gym sessions to keep my mind nice and distracted while I work up a sweat. Now while iTunes is the default way for managing your little music box in the Windows realm, it is definitely one of the more bloated software solutions out there, and so one that I try to avoid installing at all costs. Continue reading
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Tagged copytrans, copytrans manager, file manager, ipod, ipod suite
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How to Set MP4 Video Tags for Your iPod
Now that I enjoy watching animated television shows while I work out at gym, the process of converting my DVDs to iPod MP4 video files has begun in earnest! One of the last problems I encountered dealt with the lack of info tags on my converted files, meaning that the iPod wasn’t giving me any decent information on any of my newly added files. Enter Mp3tag – the universal Tag Editor! Continue reading
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Tagged id3, ipod, mp3tag, mp4, tag, tag manager, tags
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GUI Management of your Ubuntu Server with Webmin
There is nothing more daunting than being given an Ubuntu Server to manage if you have never ever delved into the world of command line (or should that be terminal line) Linux. Thankfully though, someone saw it fit to lend a helping hand to these hapless system administrators, resulting in the very useful Webmin package. Continue reading
Spritely: Character and Background Animation without Flash!
So you are the type of person that likes those cheesy moving, animated characters and backgrounds that appear on numerous websites around the Internet. In fact, you love just about anything that moves and hence are absolutely in love with creating Flash animations. But what if Flash wasn’t available to you? Continue reading
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Tagged animation, dynamic background, jQuery, spritely
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Google Calendar: SMS Reminder Notifications
Google Calendars is an extremely useful, versatile and powerful calendar application which is available almost anywhere where you can find some sort of data connection – and most importantly of all, it is completely FREE to use. One of the nifty features of this calendar app is it notification functionality, which basically allows you to receive reminder notifications for events in your calendar as they become current.
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Tagged google, google calendar, reminder, sms, sms reminder
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