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 [...]
By admin | August 10, 2009
“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? [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By admin | November 7, 2008
www.mazaika.com 5 products, inc free ascii generator $89 for flagship mosaic but it looks very good
By admin | November 4, 2008
Sell what Sells, NOT what’s Cool by Worldwide Brands: “One store leads to two, two lead to four, and so on. Never get stuck limiting your entire business to just one type of product!”
By admin | November 4, 2008
Uncovering Site Problems for Landing Page Optimization. Part 2 by Tim Ash, SiteTuners.comhttp://www.wilsonweb.com/conversion/ash-landing-page2.htm Landing pages from both organic search and paid search that don’t perform well cost you big money in lost sales. But how do you identify the problems? In part 1 we covered the uses of Web analytics, on-site search, and usability testing [...]