So Apple have made the iPad available for pre-sale. I mentioned before that I wasn’t going to be buying an iPad (although at the time, I didn’t know that was what it was going to be called). I told a little lie.
When Steve Jobs announced the iPad in his (rather underwhelming) January keynote, I watched [...]
iDon’t iWant iAn iPad
Retro Fridays: A look back at my favourite video game moments.
Most of you have played a video game or two in the past and with that in mind I created a top 5 of the most favorite games of the past.
Doing Good Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a measuring tool that is used for most of the websites these days, it displays statistics on how well your site is doing in terms of visitor traffic and search engine optimization. A common mistake however in doing analytics on your websites is the misinterpretation of the statistics. Here is a top 5 of common mistakes and misconceptions and how to benefit the most of the statistics gathered.
For the “universe” designers out there
I stumbled upon a interesting blog about the color of the sun. Most people will think the sun is yellow but its actually not. The color of the sun is in graphic design terms : #fff5f2
The original article can be found here.
Here are some more stars and there colors.
YouTube’s Top 10 Accidental Heroes
This is a rundown of the 10 most famous YouTube video’s that ended up being more famous that they bargained for from video remixes, sound boards to even mugs and shirts. These are the heroes of YouTube in no particular order.
Number 1: The Techno Viking
Number 2: Star wars Kid
Number 3: Charlie Bit me
Number 4: Ginger [...]
How’s that look in IE9?… Wait, what!?
Yes folks, no sooner are we getting over the quirks/compatibility more of IE8, than news reaches us that IE9 is roadmapped and due sooner than we thought.
Read all about it from Mary Jo Foley over at ZDNet
It’s like buses. Stuck with IE6 for years and then IE7, IE8, IE9…
While on that subject, here’s a great [...]
Please don’t confuse my directions…
I am afflicted by a “disorder” which means I cannot immediately tell my left from my right. Ask me to put my right hand up and I have to think about it. It’s a source of much humour amongst other people but at times can be quite frustrating. I’m also not alone apparently but I have found [...]
Go Mocking Bird and Lovely Charts
Every now and then, simple apps come along that grab your attention. Whether you use them for an hour, a day or the rest of your life, they’re great things to have access to. One of the very great things about web based apps is just that; they are web based and so can be [...]
Looking for inspiration
A new site called Site Inspire has been setup to catalogue and catagorise websites that have been submitted to it, not by genre, but by style, theme and type.
Excuse me, you dropped your shadow…
Drop shadows, gradients and bad shading effects (along with Comic Sans!) are the bane of bad web web design and a curse of Web 2.0! Everybody’s using them. Used effectively they look great and can add real depth and dimension to a good design. Used improperly though and they smack of amateurish inexperience and band-wagon jumping (I [...]
Rage, rage against the glowing fruit-shaped light…
As Peter Gabriel said, “Hi there!”
Having been born in the mid 70’s, I grew up with computers. I’ll never forget the first time I sat at a computer (my old school friend again!) and typed “dir” and marvelled at the list of files that grew in front of me. I might as well have been staring into [...]