My Setup
Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
Since I spend most of my waking hours sat at this very desk, I guess taking five minutes to describe what it consists of wouldn’t be too bad an idea. Firstly, here’s a photo, I’ll describe each element in turn after the break.
It should be fairly obvious to say, first of all that I’m a […]
mia: my stat needs fulfilled!
Friday, May 26th, 2006
Having seen Michael McCrackens excellent idea to create a single site web viewer (not a browser, becuase you can’t browse!) for Gmail, I thought it might be a nice introduction to mac applications - and Xcode - to have a play around and create a stats viewer for my website.
Before I go any further […]
Widget: mint referrers
Sunday, May 14th, 2006
visit wdgty.com to download
If you are like me, and find yourself constantly reloading your mint installation to see where your visitors are coming from, and you use mac osx, this is for you. This new widget displays a list of the ten most recent referrals to your site. It shows not only the site the […]
Widget: Hard at work
Sunday, April 16th, 2006
Being a freelance designer, working from the comfort of my flat, I don’t have to worry about someone looking over my shoulder, seeing me watching some hilarious google video, and reprimanding me. Aparantly though, some people have bosses, and have to work in these ghastly places called offices.
It is is these very people for […]
Mac Tip: Side-by-Side image editing in iPhoto 6
Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
Messing around in iPhoto this afternoon, I discovered a neat feature I haven’t seen before. If you highlight or select multiple images, and choose edit, when full screen mode is invoked, you can edit your images side-by-side. This is super handy if you want to contrast and compare images as your editing them. Unfortunately you […]
A touch of class on my desktop
Monday, March 20th, 2006
Following on from Simon Collisons post on the same subject, I couldn’t help myself, and sent an email to Jeremy Harrington over at Crawlspace|Media to see if he would be so kind as to create an icon for my football club, the mighty Coventry City. Being the gentleman that he is, Jeremy obliged, and my […]
Pull the trigger
Friday, March 10th, 2006
The world loves quicksilver. That’s a fact, it is an incredibly powerful way of doing pretty much anything you like with your mac. Usually, you just give quicksilver a few letters, it brings back a list of matches (quicker than spotlight) and you can then perform any number of actions on said item, be it […]
Getting smart with iTunes
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
The best part of iTunes, other than it playing host to my incredibly tasteful music collection, is it’s ability to create smart playlists. The ‘Smart’ thing is present throughout OS X, from smart folders in the finder, smart mailboxes in mail, to those in iTunes. I can’t help feeling however, that I’m not getting the […]
Hello Stuart, This is Maureen…
Thursday, February 16th, 2006
The conversation went like this:
Me: Hello?
Her: Hello Stuart, This is Maureen from apple.
Me: Really?
Her: Yes, I’m ringing to let you know that the applecare cover on your iPod has expired.
Me: I See.
Her: Would you like to renew it for another year?
Me: No thankyou.
Her: Really, because it’s a great deal, you know, it covers virtually everything.
Me: […]
The Final Solution
Sunday, February 12th, 2006
After fiddling around with front row and MediaCentral a couple of weeks ago, it was obvious that neither of them really matched my needs. The main priority was to be able to get the music from a couple of iPods playing in the lounge…
So, on a recent visit to the apple store on Regent Street, […]
A quick Mac tip
Thursday, February 9th, 2006
Ok, so I didn’t go to sleep. I’m going out tonight now so I’m going to battle through the sleep depravation in order to go socialise.
Anyway…
The reason for my second post today is that I found a neat little shortcut for all you mac users. If like me, you have more filetypes on your […]
36 Degrees widget V3
Sunday, February 5th, 2006
That’s right, another update to the 36 Degrees widget for you to digest. This time it’s really a feature improvement rather than a graphical redirection.
The front of the widget now contains a search function, which when used will bring you to the results page of the site in your chosen web browser. Given the nature […]
Kotoba - Finally!
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
Since moving over to Mac a while back, the one thing I’ve missed more than anything else is the plethora of freeware programs out there for people who are studying Japanese. From fully blown Word Processors, to dictionaries and drill tools, there are a lot of them available on the windows platform. Until now […]
InstruMENTAL!
Monday, January 30th, 2006
Whether this is of any interest to anyone but me is debatable, but what the hell. I was messing around in Garageband and sort of playing ‘High and Dry’ by radiohead. I thought it might be fun to just roll with it and make a shitload of noise. If that sounds like something you would […]
36 Degrees widget V2
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
Since the site has been overhauled, I thought it time to take another look at the dashboard widget I had created a while back for the RSS feed here at the site. The first widget was a clumsy, graphically poor effort from someone looking at widgets from the inside for the first time. This time […]
My thoughts on MediaCentral
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
In the pursuit for a music system for the lounge of my flat, I have been testing out a nice piece of software called MediaCentral. Still in the early stages of development, it’s fair to say that this is a free alternative to apples own media centre application - Frontrow, but it does have […]
Inquisitor 2
Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
Remember a couple of months ago I posted about Inquisitor by David Watanabe? Well today he released version 2 of the browser based instant search assistant. It is now ‘donation-ware’, meaning the developer is asking for a payment as large or as small as you like before you can get a download. It’s a great […]
and...
How about some photos, links or a feed
Welcome to 36 Degrees Design. This website is the personal portfolio and journal of Stuart Frisby, a web designer in Liverpool, England. I create websites using the latest in web standards, and can offer you a personal service, as well as over five years of professional experience in the web design industry.
I am currently studying at John Moores University in Liverpool for a degree in International Business Studies & Japanese. I sing, play the guitar (poorly), I am a Coventry City fan, and despite that, I enjoy football, and most other sports from the comfort of an armchair.
My favourite band are Radiohead, my favourite author is H. Murakami, my favourite film is Fargo and my favourite colour is, well, blue, actually.
There is a chance that you don’t want a website at all, and that being the case, you may like to take a browse through my blog, or delve into the music section where you can download some of my material. feel free to have a good nose, and do give me a shout via the contact section if you have something on your mind.