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Archive for March, 2005

Wordpress 2005 Theme Contest Winners

By Emile • Mar 31st, 2005 • Category: General

The winners were announced and while, Taft or Elvgren did not win a prize, I’m delighted that so many users have found it useful.
Click to head over to Alex King’s site for the winners.



RSS feeds via Tiger Quartz Extreme

By Emile • Mar 31st, 2005 • Category: Design

Apple never ceases to amaze me. If only the xbox startup and management screens were this classy…
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000807035571/
Seriously, take a look…



Say hello to Elvgren & Taft

By Emile • Mar 27th, 2005 • Category: Blogging, Design

Ladies & gentlemen,
It’s my great pleasure to welcome and introduce Elvgren 1.0 and Taft 1.0 to you, as my first iterations of Wordpress themes. Look at the design of this very page. This is Elvgren.
Taft is a little less standard, image heavy, looks better on a Mac, and still has some quirks to […]



Yeah, you see it. Hopefully you like it.

By Emile • Mar 24th, 2005 • Category: Blogging, Design, General

I’m no longer the Wordpress theme virgin, and being blinded by spoils beyond belief I’m preparing this entry to the Theme competition currently running for Wordpress. Please speak up on any viewing problems… IE blows, we all know ….



Busy working in the labs…

By Emile • Mar 18th, 2005 • Category: Blogging, Design, General

So those that follow may have noticed that the presses have run silent, temporarily, in the SWL labs “back at the ranch”. If it means anything, we’re hard at work at some really nice Wordpress themes for the competition being held over at Alex King’s site. There are certainly some nice ones, we’re […]



Free Invites For Google Gmail

By Emile • Mar 12th, 2005 • Category: General

UPDATE - 12/5/05
I still have 100+ invites as everytime someone accepts the invitation, Google seems to reset the counter. If you want one, just ask. Cheers!

So I still have upwards of 30+ invites for Gmail and if you want one, just chime in on the comments section of this post and be sure […]



Better Than The Rest: SWL’s New iPod Loading Service

By Emile • Mar 10th, 2005 • Category: General

So we’ve been doing it for quite some time. The friend of a friend of a friend calls with a need for help, usually with a brand new iPod. More and more, people and clients have been emailing with questions regarding how to use, manage, backup, and especially get music onto Apple’s […]



The Mommy Bloggers

By Emile • Mar 9th, 2005 • Category: Blogging

Eric Meyer’s thoughts on moms who blog how they can’t handle poopy diapers can be found here. It’s definitely worth a read.



Big Brother

By Emile • Mar 9th, 2005 • Category: General

In this day and age of identity theft, using your your credit card smartly isn’t enough anymore to maintain accuracy in your credit history.
Get copies of your credit reports from TransUnion, Equifax, and Experian, and due to new legislation, over the course of 2005, people are becoming able to get one free report per year, […]



Microsoft Bad Design Example #4,389

By Emile • Mar 9th, 2005 • Category: General

I’m generally fond of Microsoft products in that I associate them with being able to get what I want done with their software (despite the countless grievances people have with the company and their myriad of software products). I’m of course referring specifically to the Office suite of products, but this blew my mind.
I’ve […]