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 [...]
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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 [...]
Internet addresses set to recognise non western characters
ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organisation charged with responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation and country code (ccTLD) amongst other things is meeting in Seoul this week.
Coming out of that meeting it has been agreed to to allow non-Latin-script web addresses, that is set to change the way [...]
Find similar images using google image search
Google has now enabled the ability to find similar images when you search on Google Images.
There may now often be a link under the image that says, “Find similar images.” When you click that link, Google will show you images that look similar to the image you were looking at.
This could be useful if you [...]
Twitter search on Bing
It was announced yesterday that Bing is providing a realtime twitter search feature…
It will be possible to search for what people are saying all over the web about leading news topics, such as celebrity, political or sports news to name just a few.
The service is still in Beta and I must admit that any of [...]
Watch U2 live on YouTube
It has been confirmed that the U2 concert in Pasadena, California will be streamed free, full and Live on YouTube next Sunday october 25th. Thank God its a bank holiday here in Dublin as it will be in the early hours of the morning…
According to the U2.com website - it’s the first time a show [...]
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.
Search for Restaurants using twitter….
For anyone who is lucky enough to be heading off to any of the 13 cities listed below you might be interested in finding out about the local restaurant scene using twitter…
The website Schmap Picks Trending Restaurants & Bars search tool lets you see the collected tweets about restaurants and bars in 13 cities around [...]