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 [...]
The (not so) Secret Lives of Us - Part III
In the first part of this investigation, we looked at the cause of the problem. In the second part, we looked at some simple solutions. But of course, in the final part, we must look at prevention. Nothing beats protecting oneself from harm, than preventing ourselves from ending up in harms way. There are other reasons we should look at this prevention and some of these, you may not have thought of yet.
The (not so) Secret Lives of Us - Part II
As I discussed in the first part of this investigation (which was nearly three weeks ago! How time flies!) we give away far too much about ourselves online. While we are often told about managing things like our passwords on our accounts, we rarely consider the general collation of information that can be made of our details across various sites on the web.
Google Goggles
The latest greatest mobile tool from Google!
Shaddapp@font-face!!!
Ok, not quite in the Joe Dolce school of productivity, but this is all over the web at the moment and needs a mention.
While choosing a project for my degree, I toyed with the idea of creating a plugin for Firefox which would allow developers to include their own fonts in stylesheets and webpages by [...]
Twitter captures the anger of Irish football supporters
Ireland have just lost a World Cup play off against France in Paris. The French footballer Thierry Henry handled the ball in the penalty area before passing the ball to his team mate William Gallas who scored.
The (not so) Secret Lives of Us - Part I
I felt a post on privacy coming on. A number of factors have influenced this post and in trying to work out how to formulate it, the easiest way I could think to do so is to break the subject down into its (what I consider) constituent parts.
Past, Present and… Past?!
I read about the Memento Project this evening on New Scientist. An interesting concept, the working group have a server and client update that allows the web browser (user) to access not just the current version of the website, but previous versions of the site too. Unlike the Internet Archive Wayback When machine, rather than taking [...]