I’ve had a lot of people reach the site from google looking for information about using their canon A70 (or similar models) as a webcam. Having got the Cam4You utility to work I thought I’d give a quick run through of the how of getting it to work.
Step 1: Install Application and turn camera on
Sensible [...]
Ever wondered how to save bandwidth and speed up page retrieveal in one fell swoop. Well you can use the built in feature of every browser to cache you’re dynamic file. With a little bit of PHP coding the world is your oyster.
Well if you have followed the previous post on using NuSOAP to create an amazon web service then you might be interested in using NuSOAP to create a web service of your own (i.e. a server component rather than a client component). I decided to create one myself to allow me to create a .Net [...]
Here’s a little article about connecting to amazon web services in PHP using NuSOAP.
Getting started
Firstly, get yourself over to NuSOAP and download a copy of NuSOAP. Scott Nichol is now the one who does most of the coding on this project appearance and he has a number of tutorials.
Then of course you’ll need to get [...]
You might have noticed that the site has had a bit of a facelife. For a while now I’ve been meaning to give it an overhaul, and make it easier to update.
Things I’ve done:
Made templates wider. Used amazon web services to get keywork and browse based item links Added google ads at the bottom of the page Created [...]
I just got a book through the post yesterday from my very first eBay.co.uk auction. I can’t believe someone as technical as me has taken so long to give it a try. Now I’ve been buying stuff off the internet for years now, but the idea of buying off another person, rather than a company [...]