For the Love of My Country

Stumbled upon this excellent, functional and free form generator.
http://phpfmg.sourceforge.net/

Here's what I did with it.

It's a really straight-forward process to make your form. They include a small one-line credit at the bottom.

5/5 stars for this little stunner!

keywords: php form upload picture, upload attachment, upload file, php form submit picuture, submit file, submit attachment, form generator, free

Labels: form, php, upload

We reinstalled Windows on Dad's Laptop (Toshiba Satellite A100, very nice machine) - but this time round, we couldn't find the drivers for his printer - an Epson Stylus CX3700, the kind that has a scanner and a printer built in, so it is also nominally a "copier" as well - that's why Epson calls it a "3 in 1".



Anyway, searched the Epson website, the web, Driverguide, and tried to get Windows to find the driver. No joy. Amazingly, a couple of days ago someone uploaded the correct driver onto Driverguide. It works. Here's a link to the file on Driverguide - bear in mind that you have to sign up, and put up with a whole bunch of annoying advertising.

Alternatively, click here to download the driver which I uploaded onto a "free file hosting" website called SaveFile.com.

I don't recommend you use SaveFile.com - it has a terrible interface, and is pathetically slow - but seeing as I had already uploaded the file - and it seems to work fine, there's the link for you above.

Labels: driver, printer

www.timeanddate.com lets you build a nice, customisable date & time applet which runs inside an iframe (argh!) on your website. I've used mine for ages - and though it occasionally fails to load, I've found it extremely good.  Click here to build your applet.  Click here for an example (top right).

This is blinking text

source: <blink>This is blinking text</blink>

simple eh. but dumb.

[Update: 13 March 09] So much for the Google Reader blog roll! I don't know what went wrong, but all the links disappeared out of the list. I played round with the settings at the Google Reader end, but to no avail. Instead I've just gone for a list that I will update manually. I think they will be higher-quality (more search engine friendly) links this way anyway.

If you're running Wordpress or Blogger mk2, this isn't an issue for you, because you've already got a built-in blogroll system that is darn good...

As many of you will know, Blogrolling.com was hacked - and was subsequently down for a long time. Half a year or something. Anyway, they're finally back up and running, so this evening I went through, revising and updating my blog roll - have been waiting to get onto this for ages. What they've done though, is they've made it so that if you don't pay for the service, when someone clicks on a blog in your list, it takes them to a blogrolling.com page with an advert at the top, and the blog you're visiting sitting in an iframe below. It's relatively inconspicous but still highly annoying. As a free service I loved it - but with the adverts and the new slow but flashy back-end interface, it's not worth bothering with.

Instead I've gone for a Google Reader blog roll which is incredibly simple. Just choose the blogs in Google Reader that you want to be in your blog roll, and add them to their own folder. Set the folder to "public", and then click the option that appears, "add a blog roll to your site". It's incredibly simple, and of course will update whenever you update your new "blogroll" folder from the Google Reader end.

Ok, it's got that Google look, but there's no ads and it's straight-forward and integrated with your blog reader, so what are you complaining about?

Apparently you can do this with Bloglines as well - if you're a bloglines user.

Labels: blog