Jamie Balfour

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Great news! The Google Search on my website has finally been updated by Google. Praise Google, its only taken 2 weeks to update it. Now it searches my new site rather than a non-existent old site.

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Have you ever built a menu on a website, and changed it? What have you done if you cannot use iFrames? (I mean, who would use inline frames?) Have you gone through every single page and made the menu consistent manually? This is what I have done before now as I cannot use server-side programming with my current website.

Last night I was working on a small program to make my life much easier when updating my menu on my website. What I have is a small program with two inputs that are used as replacements for parts of the HTML text files. It goes through all the files in sequence, replacing the menu with a new one. It makes it much easier to update the menu and much easier to replace strings within text files.

Edit: This program is no longer available separately and is available as a Wonderword plugin.

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Since the newly designed website has kicked off recently, people have noticed it and have requested a site very similar. My next project is designing and building a website for my first client with a semi-familiar appearance to my own website!

This is great news as it shows that people do appreciate my website!

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So whilst many of you may have noticed that I have redesigned the site, some of you may not have. New things like subscribing to the site, a dedicated software section rather than a link to the section, a new menu, a front page with a purpose, site links, web policy, a new theme that is consistent throughout the site and CSS support are now making the site look good.

I am also very proud to announce the support for all major browsers now, including Firefox, which had errors previously, as well as Chrome, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer.

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The site has displayed errors on Google Chrome just now and because of this is going through a very important redesign to support all of the main browsers. Please bear with me with me whilst this happens.

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Hello again followers! My website has now been fully redesigned to have a much nicer feel and appearance! Please come and visit as you'll see how much better it is already!

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What a year 2012 has been! We have had loads of brilliant things like the Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics, as well as the 50th anniversary of James Bond all in the space of one year! What a year indeed!

With a variety of different things being shown on TV this year as always, I felt I had like to remember 2012 my way. So what I have done here is compile a list of the last things I did in 2012, so that I have a memory forever.

Last meal I ate: Battered fish with chips and mushy peas

Last thing I had to drink with a meal: Coca Cola

Last place I went out to eat: The Marine Hotel

Last film I watched: James Bond Octopussy

Last game I played: Batman Arkham Asylum

Last song I listened to: Brinstar of Old (from Super Smash Bros Brawl soundtrack)

Last person I have sent a text to: Murray Szymanski

Last friend I have spoken to in person: Calum Cormack

Last TV programme I have watched: Scotland's Hogmanay Live

Last major purchase for myself: Hauppauge HD PVR2

So that is the end of 2012 almost, and it has been one heck of a good year. Now all we have to do really is say goodbye to it and say hello to 2013. That will be in a good few hours, and the list may have changed then! But until then, let us enjoy what is left of the year!

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I have recently uploaded my first YouTube Hardware Look. My plan was to try and take away a lot of the reviewing side of the videos and just give a look at some of the things that would take a long time to review, rather than disappear from YouTube altogether.

You can find a look at the XFX Radeon Double Dissipation Edition on my channel now.

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It was once a very enticing opportunity but with other activities (such as university) in my life it has become difficult to work on my YouTube videos.

Therefore, this next video could be my last video to come to YouTube. I am sorry to disappoint those who follow me and I would like to say thanks to all who subscribed to me in the past and those who asked questions.

I also was not getting enough views to make this worth while any more and therefore do not see any point in continuing with it. I will continue to post videos once in a while, however, for the most part I will no longer be an active user as before.

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Quick Quiz was at first a very difficult program to work on. It has now been redesigned from the bottom up and it now has a much more appealing design to it. Work has just recently begun with the first initial build, 2.0.0.1. You can still download version 1.0.0.12 from my website in the Downloads Center.

Feel free to try either as the 2011 edition of the software still receives updates. But it is now changing to the new version (2012). And pretty soon the software will be going under Ultra Edition.

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