Yesterday I was sent an invitation to Spotify by Sam. Which is a service where you can find, listen to and share music in one place, rather like last.fm.
You just go ahead and download the OSX desktop streamer which has a really nice interface and listen to music from there.

With a free account an advertisement will commence every few songs you play and can be removed by purchasing a premium account but isn’t that bad anyway.
Just likes in iTunes you add and organise playlists.
The interface will also keep search strings open for you unless you close them and the entire application has functionality with the play/pause etc keyboard shortcuts.
So thats my review and thoughts on this service and I’m still impressed with the fact that its so integrated and free.

Sorry for a lack of update to my website. Or my flickr which will usually get updated the most.
I’ve been rather you see. My maths exams are now done, I won’t have my results until January so I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.
I’ve also developed a theme for Sean’s Tumblr which he is pleased with, therefore I am pleased with. It was my first time working on a theme for tumblr. It seemed quite complex at first until it works in the same principle to the rapid weaver syntax tags which it detects in the index.html file and displays the content edited in the application window like so.
All I had to do was place div tags around the parts of the content I wanted to manipulate and style then create the style sheet and images to create the theme and leave the tumblr code which was placed in side {these brackets}.
I’ll soon be creating a theme for my own tumblr to match this website so I can post the small things I want which aren’t tutorials and mainstream post’s.
Here is the link to his tumblr so you can see the theme in action and the modifications sean has made, If you’d like me to have a crack at designing you a theme for free I’d be more than willing to, just Contact me and I’ll take a look :D

At the moment in my spare time during my GCSE’s. Only a true geek would take time to learn a server-side scripting language. In this case PHP (PHP, Hypertext, Processor). The term “server-side” means that, quite ironically that its a programming language or script that remains on the server and therefore not accessible on client side computers except for javascript which is something usually enabled in the browser and can be seen if you view the page source.
There are a number of uses of PHP which are valuable to web designers and so on. Which include “includes” which I’ll use as an example for how it can be used. (Oh and if you want to learn PHP you need it to install it first, which can be really complex. So I would suggest you download XAMPP which is a package put together which will install Apache, Perl, MySQL and PHP on your computer safely and comes with a neat control panel where you can turn on and off any part of XAMPP.



So anyway, Back to PHP. We’ll now make an example of how includes can be used to your advantage when creating a website. Lets create a simple HTML document.



Save this as “index.php” then create another file. lets say a footer for a site. So go and create a file called “footer.php” and make a small footer.



Then lets add in the PHP to integrate the footer into the index file.



And as we can see from the preview in my code editor, we have sucsessfully included the footer content into the index page using the include function in PHP.



Why is this useful? It wouldn’t appear useful in this example as it actually complicated things more than they should be. But on a larger website with multiple pages. Includes will be more efficient that typing out the same code for a footer or a navigation bar time and time again.

I hope this tutorial was useful and if you have any questions feel free to contact me at the bottom of the page.

Congratulations to Barack Obama and the majority of the U.S. for electing him. If I were an american citizen I would have voted for him though I did put my part in the voting system that was going round twitter a few days before election when I voted for Obama. I honestly think that he can bring change to the world and the world’s view of America politically and it couldn’t have come at a better time when we need “change” during the crisis’s currently happening around the world. This was just a small blog post say what I thought about it, Thanks.