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Nick Soper's Website I am work as General Manager of the digital unit the Bester Burke Slingers advertising group. I have a Bsc (hons) degree in Digital Art and Technology, I surf as much as I can, do hot yoga, gym and enjoy life in Cape Town. Read more »

13 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The After Hours Athletes

The After Hours Athletes

Since the nineties PUMA made their money from positioning themselves as a fashion brand rather than a sports brand, which is clever when you consider that only 10% of all sportswear sales are actually used for sport. Watch the video….

29 July 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Augmented Reality – Gimmick or Utility

Augmented Reality – Gimmick or Utility

There is a bit of a buzz surrounding Augmented reality at the moment and how brands can leverage this technology to engage consumers. This article looks at what Augmented reality is, what you can do with it, what technologies are available and how we can transcend gimmicks and add utility to brands through Augmented Reality.

09 July 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Always Open Links In New Tabs In Safari (5)

I thought this was definitely blogworthy, rather than just going out in a tweet. I love Safari, I use it as my main browser mainly because I like Webkit (like CSS3 and html 5 support), fast Javascript Rendering, and the activity monitor. But I’ve always hated it when I click a link in another application [...]

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04 May 2010 ~ 3 Comments

Seagate FreeAgent Icon for Mac OS X

Seagate FreeAgent Icon for Mac OS X

I just knocked up a Mac OS X icon for my new Seagate FreeAgent external hard drive. Me being me I thought I would share it with the world and spend 15 minutes writing a post about it. Read more, download and enjoy :-)

20 April 2010 ~ 2 Comments

WP-Supersleight

WP-Supersleight is the second Wordpress plugin I have written. It simply allows really easy deployment of the popular IE PNG Fix solution Superleight to any Wordpress Blog. I also avoids having to put files outside of your wp-content folder, and will embed correctly regardless of the domain you are running your Wordpress installation on.

31 March 2010 ~ 3 Comments

Uncapped Internate Usage

Uncapped Internate Usage

I always thought that uncapped internet was something I had left behind in the UK 4 years ago. Alas, unlimited internet has arrived in South Africa, and things are looking bright.

26 March 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Admin Custom Styles

Admin Custom Styles

Part of my job is to build websites for clients, and part of the job it to hand over a polished website my client can be proud of and does their brand justice. I love WordPress, but I also like to be able to use either my brand (www.nsdigital.co.za) or my clients brand for the [...]

25 March 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Hello world!

Welcome to Nicksoper.com. This is my first post with the new site. After coding my second WordPress plugin, wp-SuperSleight, I got all confident and decided to install WordPress mu this time around, and slowly converge all my websites onto the same codebase to try and reduce time spent upgrading things. This meant I had to [...]