Category Archives: Web Development

De-Vuvuzelate me, Baby

Some helpful lads in Queen Mary’s University in London have come up with a clever piece of software which “de-Vuvuzelates” your telly signal, rendering impotent that irritating drone which accompanies all world cup matches. In case you’ve managed to somehow avoid all the excitement, the drone is caused by an incredibly loud and irrating plastic [...]

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Bill Gates Hates Facebook

“Facebook performed an illegal operation and should be shut down” said Bill Gates speaking on a recent tour to India. Bill signed up and promptly got 10,000 requests to be his “friend”, which he admits overwhelmed him.  He especially found the process of reviewing new friend requests too arduous.  I wonder how far he got? [...]

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Earth Nearly Full.

It is estimated that 1.5 exabytes (1.5 x 10^18) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year. That’s estimated to be more than in the previous 5,000 years. ..according to Glimpse of the Future by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod.

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How Many Domains are Registered?

Some bitch’n’moan about the hoops one has to jump through to register a .ie domain.  The upside to it, however, is that if you really want a domain, it’s probably still available for you to register – unlike, say, .com or .net domains which have just about every name under the sun already snapped up.  [...]

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How Facebook is Gunning for Google (And Killing SEO)

An enlightening post from www.copyblogger.com: This weekend, my mother-in-law asked me to enter a life of crime. Not in the real world, of course – she’d like the father of her grandkids to remain jail-free. No, instead she invited me to play that Mafia game that’s so popular on Facebook. Not interested in the game, [...]

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Brilliant Javascript Graphics Demo

Mr Doob does it again!  Check out http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/depth_of_field/ to see an amazing 3D graphic demo, all done using Javascript.  This means that there are no big fat graphics servers in the background, it’s all done and calculated and displayed within your browser.  Responds to mouse movement too. Sometimes seems to have problems displaying in IE7 [...]

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Clever Spammers! Part 4

Another phishing tale… …so I got a spam into my inbox today; ostensibly from PayPal, got through my spam filters: Call me Sherlock, but the sender’s address paypal@13510062478.com didn’t fool me.  It’s clever, because it has paypal in the name, but it’s from www.13510062478.com not from PayPal. So I looked at where the “Click Here [...]

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YouTube in Higher Quality

YouTube has just announced that users now have the option of watching some videos in 720p HD. These streams are available on certain videos, depending on the source file uploaded to YouTube. The ability to upload higher quality videos means improved sharpness and visual clarity for some YouTube videos. It’s very noticeable in videos that [...]

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If You Build It, They Won’t Come

This post was written by Naomi of www.IttyBiz.com – a highly recommended blog IttyBiz If You Build It, They Won’t Come Posted: 17 Nov 2008 01:43 PM CST ….. If you run a service business — and in service I include coaching and consulting — and to a degree if you run any other kind [...]

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Good Mozaic Software

www.mazaika.com 5 products, inc free ascii generator $89 for flagship mosaic but it looks very good

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