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I'm an IT Manager based in the UK, undertake freelance web projects, mountain sports and am a husband & a father. Here I blog about web apps, all things Apple & life in general. I also highlight my posts & status updates from around the web.

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Tumblelog: Links & Random Thoughts from Across The Web

How to clear your email inbox by The Guardian

How to clear your email inbox by The Guardian: As a fan of GTD and in particular Inbox Zero this was an interesting read. Many of it was quite familiar to my workflow but I was interested to read the suggestion of archiving your overflowing inbox off to an archive folder to give you immediate relief. You obvious then need to book time in to sort out the archive using the techniques they suggest.…

September 28, 2009 18:11 / See original post ...

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A List Apart: Articles: Paper Prototyping

A List Apart: Articles: Paper Prototyping: An excellent article on paper prototyping, as the name suggests.  Good read for anybody who is new to the concept of paper prototyping of software application interfaces or those who just want to review what they do and pick up some top tips

September 25, 2009 12:43 / See original post ...

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Welcome to PaperPrototyping.com

This is the companion web site for the book Paper Prototyping by Carolyn Snyder. Here you’ll find downloadable versions of materials presented in the book, examples of paper prototypes, references, and more. Whether or not you’ve read the book, you’ll find useful resources here.

September 25, 2009 12:40 / See original post ...

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Pagel France

A secure, child centred environment where little ones can be given the freedom to explore and a safe place in which to do it

September 20, 2009 14:00 / See original post ...

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Magpie RSS/Atom Parser Plugin - ExpressionEngine

Retrieves and Parses RSS/Atom Feeds. Based of the MagpieRSS project at SourceForge.net. The plugin will also create a cache containing the RSS/Atom data.

September 12, 2009 0:42 / See original post ...

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FeedGrab — brandnewbox.co.uk

FeedGrab is a plugin for Expression Engine to provide it with the ability to import data from 3rd party web feeds (RSS or ATOM), such as flickr or delicious.

September 12, 2009 0:39 / See original post ...

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LG Twitter - Update your Twitter status from ExpressionEngine Control Panel

LG Twitter is a Multi-Site Manager compatible extension that allows you to post Tweets to Twitter.com from your ExpressionEngine control panel. Tweets can be posted through a Twitter tab which is added to the publish / edit form or through the “Quick Tweet” bar.

September 12, 2009 0:37 / See original post ...

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Twitter Timeline - ExpressionEngine

Allows you to display information from Twitter timelines in ExpressionEngine

September 12, 2009 0:36 / See original post ...

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Twit-ee addon for ExpressionEngine by shapeshed’s

Twit-ee fetches data from the Twitter API and allows you to display it in your ExpressionEngine templates. A variety of tags are available allowing you to show your own tweets, your friends tweets and more.

September 12, 2009 0:34 / See original post ...

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TK RSS Aggregator Add-on Module for ExpessionEngine by Tom Kiss

This module allows ExpressionEngine users to add multiple feeds to an RSS aggregator, and output some or all of them in to an EE template.

September 12, 2009 0:32 / See original post ...

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metaquark » AppFresh

AppFresh helps you to keep all applications, widgets, preference panes and application plugins installed on your Mac up to date. All from one place, easy to use and fully integrated into Mac OS X. AppFresh works by checking the excellent osx.iusethis.com for new versions and lets you download and install available updates easily.

September 02, 2009 21:23 / See original post ...

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Photo Journal

View more of my photos at the Giles Thurston Gallery on Flickr.

About Giles Thurston

Giles Thurston

Hi, my name is Giles Thurston and this is my personal site.

I'm based in Ely, the second smallest city in the UK just north of Cambridge. I have over 15 years commercial software development experience, spending the first few years as an application developer before moving into web development and consultancy. I've led teams, managed multi million pound contracts and have a number of years of business development experience. My day job these days tends to focus on IT management and in particular Business Development but I keep my hand in by undertaking personal web development and design projects.

In 2008, after 16 years using Windows based PC's, I made the switch to a Mac and boy was it worth it! Although I continue to use PC's on a day to day basis, my personal preference is always to go with Apple products and I hope to blog about my experiences as a switcher here on this site, with various hints and tips which may be of use to anybody following me over the fence from Windows

Away from software development and technology, I am a husband to Leanne and father to Arlo James, who joined our family in April 2009. I'm a keen sportsman and enjoy a variety of mountain sports, including mountaineering, climbing (rock & ice) and mountain biking. I've recently got back into running and am hoping to do my first triathlon in 2010.

On this site I hope to blog about web apps, all things Apple & life in general. I also highlight my various posts, links & latest twitter updates from around the web.

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Feel free to get in touch and give me your feedback on the site. You can contact me directly through twitter or the other networks I use regularly, links to which you will find below. Alternatively feel free to join the discussion and comment on my blog posts, all contributions are welcome!

My Latest Tweet

My latest tweets:

I got the Mac Heist bundle. 7 awesome Mac apps worth $260+ for only $19.95 and got 3 sweet bonus apps free! http://bit.ly/heist-it

Posted yesterday / Tue Mar 09 23:33:13 +0000 2010

I have officially reached Inbox Zero on my work email account, first time in six months. Dead chuffed, now just to ensure it stays that way!

Posted yesterday / Tue Mar 09 15:42:03 +0000 2010

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