Generally speaking, transporting anything from A to B is not really regarded as one of life’s more rewarding experiences. Time consuming and laborious are just two terms that spring to mind when someone mentions removal boxes but don’t despair help is at hand.

Boxitmoveit.com specialise in taking some of the strain from this tiring but inevitable function that the vast majority of us will have to undertake at sometime in our lives. Aside from being useful for moving things, cardboard boxes are also valuable resources in terms of storage.

It is true to say that if things are boxed and stacked it can provide a certain peace of mind as well as freeing up some important floor space. Whatever your requirements, whatever your budget, we would strongly suggest that you check out what we can offer before embarking on any removal or storage related project.

To see which of our wide range of products best fits your specifications please take your time to browse our website, if you require any further information please contact us.

Boxitmoveit provides you with the perfect opportunity to get ahead with your packing. We offer a great range of cardboard moving boxes and other items, such as tape dispensers and bubblewrap, that you may find to be indispensable during your move.

Not only do we offer a great range of standard shape cardboard moving boxes, including small boxes, medium boxes and large boxes, we also provide the specially designed archive box. These strong cardboard boxes come with a cardboard lid and have comfortable hand grips cut out on either side.

This website was a design collaboration with Preface Studios

The download speed of your web pages can often be a deciding factor in trying to keep hold of people browsing your site. With an ever growing number of web sites and resources out on the net, it is crucial that you don’t make your audience wait around too long or they will simply go somewhere else.

But what makes a page download slowly? The size of your images will play a large part in download speeds, but there are a number of other factors that come into play as well – some of which you may not have considered before.

Websiteoptimization.com is a website that lets you quickly test your own web page download speeds, and points out areas of your pages that may be causing long download times. It’s easy to use and completely free, and can point you in the right direction when it comes to optimising your web pages.

The site offers tips about limiting the number of HTTP requests made by your pages, including serving images from a separate domain or sub-domain, and highlights the main areas to focus on when starting the optimisation process for your pages.

For more about website optimisation, there is a very good book from O’Reilly on the subject.

Whether it’s resizing the product thumbnails for an e-commerce project or simply changing the filenames of the photos from our digital cameras, many of us have faced the daunting task of resizing, renaming or reformatting tens, if not hundreds, if not thousands of images before.

Batch image processing software can help with this rather dull task, reducing potentially hours of work down to a few clicks of a mouse.

There are a number of programs out there that offer a variety of batch processing techniques for images, including the standard resizing, renaming and reformatting functions. One of the best pieces of software I have come across is called BIMP Lite.

BIMP Lite is a small and simple batch processor for image files, that allows you to perform various functions on multiple images. It can be used to create thumbnail images from your pictures, add a prefix/postfix (with meta variables), rename using a sequential number, change the case of filenames, replace/remove spaces & underscores, flip or rotate images and also apply anti-aliasing, inverse, greyscale and bevel effects.

The thumbnail resizing allows you to force a specified width or height and keep theproportions, or define fixed image dimensions. Images can have text overlayed on them at anycorner or side, as well as the center of the image. This text can include meta variables such as image height, width, number of colours etc. In addition, the program can also convert the file format to GIF, JPG, PNG, BMP, MIFF, TIFF, PCX or TGA. All of the actions can be performed individually, or combined. BIMP now also includes an FTP client, so you can automatically output images to a remote server via the File Transfer Protocol.

The BIMP stands for “Batch Image Processor”, and it is a piece of freeware that does exactly what it says on the tin. Not only is this free software, but it is also very light to run, and incredibly simple to use. You can find out more about BIMP, and download it from here.

I have found this piece of software to be invaluable whilst developing e-commerce shops with large volumes of product photography. It is also incredibly helpful when generating thumbnail images for photo galleries and the renaming capabilities open it up for an even wider range of uses.

I found out about BIMP Lite in a very insightful article here, from Smashing Magazine. They list 15 handy batch image processors for both Windows and Mac systems. I would definitely recommend taking a look.

It has always been one of the most painful parts of any web development project… testing on multiple browsers to make sure that your site will appear correctly to a wider audience. But there is now some relief, courtesy of a browser sandbox available on the Xenocode website.

In a nutshell, this web page will allow you to emulate any one of the most popular web browsers of the moment, including Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8, as well as Firefox, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome.

If you are using Firefox to launch each of your virtual browsers you will need to install an add-on before you can use the Xenocode software. Once this is done, you can launch each browser at the click of a button.

The great thing is that you no longer need to install and maintain a large number of browsers on your own machine. Each of the Xenocode emulations runs in a sandbox on your computer to avoid any conflicts with your operating system or other installed programs.

What can I say… the title pretty much covers it!

I can’t remember when I was first told about xkcd, but after I got my first “fix” I have been a dedicated fan ever since. The cartoons are clever, funny and often so true that it’s embarassing for all of us techies.

The comic is created by a guy called Randal Munroe, a CNU graduate with a degree in physics who is living out in Massachusetts in the USA. A history of working on robots for NASA might explain a few of the higher level coding jokes, and an apparent penchant for the slightly odd would explain the rest of the comics! In his own words:

In my spare time I climb things, open strange doors, and go to goth clubs dressed as a frat guy so I can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable. At frat parties I do the same thing, but the other way around.

So head over to www.xkcd.com now and start to get your healthy dose of humour. Enjoy!