The Wandering Brit

This simple tutorial describes how to place anchors in your WordPress pages, so that you can to link a specific section, chapter or question within a post or page

Database backups are essential for any website, but they can be a bit of a drag. Follow this tutorial to create a completely automated system for backing up your database, as often as you need. Now, should anything disastrous happen to your database, you can rest in the knowledge that your data is safe

For too long, iPhone users have had to make do with the BBC News Mobile site which is abysmal, but now the BBC has finally produced their own iPhone app, which isn’t half bad. You can even customise which news matters the most to you

A description of the process needed to download BBC programs onto your iPhone, even if you’re not located in the United Kingdom.

Instant Messaging may be losing steam to social media, but it’s till very handy for passing quick messages around, and now Meebo makes it even easier on the go with speedy push notifications and a huge array of services that it will log into for you, from Facebook, to Google Chat, to MSN and Yahoo

While Google Voice have long fought with Apple/AT&T over them rejecting their iPhone app, so they circumvented the ridiculous rules and produced a web app which provides immense functionality using HTML5, including a keypad, texting capabilities and access to your contacts

Despite having been proven to be capable of recording video for a long time, Apple has not supported video recording natively on the iPhone 3G. That’s all changed now, with Apple approving a number of apps, including the excellent iVideoCamera

For anyone who loves both the BBC and Google Chrome as much as me, this is an invaluable tutorial for watching the BBC iPlayer anywhere in the world, using Chrome. It uses Tor, the Switchy! extension and a little configuration to get the right result

IMDB has long been the central source for finding film information. Now their iPhone app makes finding that information on the go insanely easy. The app is well put together and easy to navigate, displaying the information in an intuitive and clean way.

Living in the US with family in the UK, I’ve had Vonage for a few years to make free calls back home. But now Google Voice is changing the game, by offering even cheaper international rates, not to mention that there is no monthly fee, as there is with Vonage.