Archive for the 'Web' Category
Missing Flickr Features 9 Sep 2007
I wouldn’t say I’m an amateur photographer, I have a couple of cameras, one of which is comfortably above your typical point-and-shoot and I think about my pictures a bit more than most, so I seem to get some praise for them, but I don’t avidly go out looking for shots. Anyway, recently it was [...]
Social Network Slapdown 15 Jul 2007
I’m totally with Joe over at Webby’s World regarding social networks. I have two problems with them: Nobody I know uses them, not my friends, not my parents, not my brother, not my workmates, no one. The only person I know who uses any of them is my teenage sister. Even if they did use [...]
Heavyweight Firefox 13 Jul 2007
I have to say that I too have started to notice that Firefox isn’t the svelte, lightweight IE-fighter it once was, it seems closer to being a overweight Rocky looking to for another round in the ring. I love Firefox, it’s great, just look how it forced MS into releasing IE7, introduced tabbed browsing, integrated [...]
Evolution in Action 6 Feb 2006
It seemed to me, not too long ago, that most of the obvious web applications, applications I’ve slowly been using more and more, were already in place and that we had market leaders that were difficult to topple. I’m not talking about Internet Explorer versus Firefox, nor any paid applications, many of these suckers go [...]
Become a Pixel Tamer 4 Feb 2006
So, last week I started my own network. Pixel Tamers is a place where people, like me, who run small blogs and websites can join up in an effort to try and get a bit more exposure, a few more visitors and some like-minded collaborators. If you run a blog or website, why not take [...]
Search Records 21 Jan 2006
I’ve just finished watching The Money Programme episode titled ‘The World According to Google.’ I watched it online, as part of a trial the BBC is running, great idea (UK only I think). One of the topics covered was that Google log every search and service use to each IP address and store them. Google [...]
Help Wikipedia 5 Jan 2006
Wikipedia are appealing for more financial help. If, like me, you find the site invaluable, please head over and splash some cash, it doen’t have to be much, as they say on the telly, every little helps. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Whales probably puts it best: Wikipedia is based on a very radical idea, the realization [...]
Quality Service 17 Dec 2005
Big companies spend millions of pounds trying to build customer relations, trying to woo and keep customers. Generally, I like to think I’m immune to much of this and go where the price is best despite their efforts to keep us (have you noticed that they suddenly hike your car insurance up in year two [...]
Angry Squid 1 Oct 2005
You may have heard about the historic photographing of a Giant Squid in action at nearly a kilometre below the surface by a couple of Japanese researchers recently. Well, one thing they managed to do was break off a length of tentacle about 5.5m in length (it got caught on their squid trap thing and [...]
Competition Time 13 Sep 2005
I’m running a competition over at List Books this month. All you have to do is register for an account (make sure to validate it and stay signed up for the newsletter) and you’ll automatically be entered in a free prize draw for a Goodmans GPS 150RS CD/Radio/Cassette player. There’s nothing to lose, so why [...]