Olark is a live chat widget that you drop into your site and allows you to chat with visitors through your existing IM app.

If you use WHMCS you can quickly integrate the code supplied by Olark by putting it in a smarty literal tag just before the </body> tag at the end of your footer.tpl file in your template directory:

{literal}
    //SUPPLIED CODE FROM OLARK
{/literal}

If you want the name of your logged in customers to show up in the chat you can to put the following after the last block of code you added:

{if $loggedin}
    {literal}
    
    {/literal}
{/if}

If you’re not already using live chat on your site, read more and sign up to Olark here.

With the launch of iOS 7.1, Apple require all enterprise apps manifest files to be served over HTTPS. Attempts to install through HTTP cause the following message:

The actual page and app IPA don’t need to be served on SSL, it’s just the manifest file that links to it. Currently you’ll have something like this:

itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=http://yourdomain.com/manifest.plist

But the manifest plist file needs to served over SSL:

itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=https://yourdomain.com/manifest.plist

You can host the manifest plist file on Dropbox (which will serve it over SSL), but the easiest way is to add an SSL certificate onto your domain. More info over on this stackoverflow question.

When I took some pictures of Brighton’s West Pier a couple of weeks ago there was something strange going on – what looked like a rap video was being filmed.

Turns out it was a (strange) rap video all about the West Pier, and it’s now up on YouTube. You can even see an odd couple having a BBQ against one of the supports.