Archive for the ‘Fun Stuff’ Category

A glimpse of our future GPS Systems

The future of your driving experience will be pushed by that of your social network and the places they recommend and have seen (or are looking at in real time).


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 [...]


Not a good Buzz!

Continuing with the awkwardly titled blog posts about Google Buzz, looks like I’m not the only one who’s peeved about the involuntary inclusion of Google Buzz in my Gmail. Boy Genius Report tells us that Google are about to be hit with a class action suit with regard to the Google Buzz infarction:
Instead of the [...]


Are ya Buzzin’?

As a web design and development agency with our fingers on the pulse of the interweb we should really pass comment on Google Buzz. As a proven Google fan too (did I mention I bought an Android phone? Yup folks, skipped the iPhone. More on that later!), I should be jumping on this band wagon. [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


Top 10 of the first decade of the new millenium!

If that headline doesn’t get this post onto the first page of Google for the next 10 years, nothing will!
In all seriousness though, I had quite forgotten that the end of 2009 marks the end of the first decade of this third millenium of our Gregorian calendar. One would naturally think that that should be [...]


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 [...]


Please put your hands on the Dashboard…

Two things strike me about Google Dashboard. The first is how much more convenient it has made all of the (already convenient) Google tools I use to me. I sync my calendar with my phone, have my email available anywhere I want, keep docs I need to access regularly in Google docs and once I’ve [...]