Archive for the ‘Web Apps’ Category

The new look from Google – 5 new caffeinated features

You all must have noticed something in the search results recently.. Google has changed some things around and are going all Google caffeinated on us. So what impact will it have on you the users, here are 5.


Smile – Cool use of Chatroulette

I seen an interesting tweet about a guy who draws people he meets on Chatroulette.


Retro Fridays: A look back at my favourite flash games.

When it comes to flash you might think that this is not retro enough yet but I disagree since its introduction almost 15 years ago it generated a whole late of crazy and addictive games. Any my personal top 5 is here.


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 [...]


Past, Present and… Past?!

I read about the Memento Project thisĀ 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 [...]


Now where did I leave my keys…?

We here at Arekibo sometimes take the opportunity of the peace and quiet of home to work on designs, documents, reports, etc. Up until now this meant either making sure we have a copy of the relevant files on our laptops or memory keys, or that we email those files to ourselves. Sometimes (more often than is convenient) you leave that all important document either on your desktop in work, or worse, on your desktop at home.