Monday 7 November 2011

How To Use Your PS3 Controller On Your Mac



I have been searching for a quick and easy guide on how to use your PS3 controller on your Mac to play games. As the PS3 controller has bluetooth, I thought it would be pretty straight forward to use the controller on my Mac. It turns out...it is!

It is easy to set your PS3 controller up on your Mac. Fortunately, Mac has built in support for the PS3 controller so no software downloads or installs necessary, and it is so easy to do.
  1. Firstly, you need to enable bluetooth on your mac. This can be done by clicking on the bluetooth icon in the menu bar. If you don't have the bluetooth icon visible, you need to go to settings (by clicking the settings icon in your dock), then you need to go to "Bluetooth". Make sure the check box is checked to enable bluetooth.
  2. Now we have bluetooth enabled, we can move onto enabling the controller to accept the connection. To do this, you will need the usb charging cable. This is what you need to do:
  3. With the charging cable plugged into the computer but NOT into your controller, hit the PS button.
  4. About 3 seconds after hitting the PS button insert the other end of the USB cable into your controller. A screen may pop up requestiong a pairing code. If so, just enter "0" (without quotes).
  5. Wait for a bit. If done correctly, you should see the bluetooth icon change. It should be the bluetooth icon with black horizontal dots in front of it. This means your PS3 controller is now connected and ready to go.
Now we have our controller connected, it is time to fire up our game and give it a test. It works with every game I have tested so far, although I have only tested Dirt 2, Call Of Duty 4 and Modern Warfare 2.

Found a compatible game that works great with the PS3 controller? Post in comments :)

I hope you found this post useful. Happy gaming!

Sunday 16 October 2011

Finally, its online!


After a long time tweaking and perfecting, our new website is finally live to the world. Our brand new design makes it much easier to navigate around and get to where you need to be. The design is much cleaner, attractive and we make much better use of colours and contrasts. To see the site simply go to www.thecoderguy.com.

To celebrate our new website launch, we have some offers going on, such as:
  • 10% off web design projects
  • Improved starter hosting package from £18.99 per year
  • Domain names from as little as £4.99 per year.
We can help with any aspect of web design, website assistance, programming help, graphic design and printing. Why not get in touch see what we can do for you.

Wednesday 27 July 2011

Cheap websites, do you only get what you pay for?

These days, it is very easy to get a quick, cheap website set up for anything. Whether you are looking to set up a cheap website for business, charity or home use, many companies are offering websites at a very cheap price. This is all good and well, but do you only get what you pay for? Do you just get a quick website with poorly constructed code, bad graphics or too much flash? Will it actually do your business or purpose more harm than good?


All business world wide would love to have their website up and running promoting their services as soon as next day. It would be ideal! Hell, I'd love that. But in doing this, is quality being sacrificed in order for the rushed turnaround. We need to ensure that the company or developer handling the job, is fully qualified and able to do a professional and complete job.

How do we ensure that we know the developer or company are able to do an efficient and professional or even "proper" job? You need to look at their portfolio, request to see as much of their previous work as you can. Once you have evidence of their previous work, go through it, visit the sites. Are they easy to navigate around, are the pictures pix-elated? Is the layout messy, are you confused where to look due to colours, contrast or bad use of font?

Any web address you can get, run them through the following website. It may be a good idea to check out the current sites and see how the information relates to your current site. Maybe you can do more to improve your current site?

  • World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - http://www.w3.org/
  • Valid Style Sheet - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
  • Web Standards - http://www.w3.org/standards/
  • Search Engine Simulator - http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php
The last link is particularly useful if you want to check what the search engines can see on your website.

Not many companies design and develop sites with all of the standards in mind, also taking into consideration accessibility to content. The Coder Guy has all of these services included with designs of websites, at highly competitive rates.

What have your experiences been like with cheap web designs? Has your site or rankings suffered over time? Let me know.