A personal page service that allows you to choose what and where you add content, isn't new, but when it just does that, then it quickly provides more than the others, with more freedom in the what (you add) area. I recently finished work on a plug-in that provides personal page functions, so I appreciate […]
By pure coincidence while I was trying to find a link to Zeo's hack for the wp-admin page, I tried Google after Technorati (as you can see from the tabs) but just before closing the Technorati page I recognized the photo of the member at the bottom left. A quick mouseover confirmed it was Zeo. […]
I have just published an article that covers the subject of testing your site/pages and the compatibility with different browsers, several different services and solutions exist. I aim to cover as many solutions as possible in the article. The main areas of the article are : - Hardware based solutions - Software based solutions - […]
Well I just came across this AJAX based Word Processor system called ajaxWrite that can actually read and write MS Word documents and several other formats. It is AJAX based so it just works directly in your browser, it's really cool ! But I then realised that this was just the tip of the […]
For the cool guys and girls from the Oregon State Linux Users Group, celebrating the 200 million download milestone, the decision was made to better the previous events with a really memorable one. What better than a crop circle of over 45,000 square feet. So August 2006, only one year and nine months after the […]
London is the place to be for free newspapers. Soon there will be three free newspapers for Londoners to choose from ! The Guardian's opening paragraph : Newspapers are dying, but no one can accuse them of going quietly. London is home to a "free frenzy" in Newspaperland. Next month there will be three free […]
So what do film stars and Web 2.0 have in common ? Read on to see why value is not always where you think it is ! While checking out CNN I came across an article called "Beware the return of the Web Bubble", which turned out to be about media companies potentially spending too […]
The reason I changed from 'not liking maths' to appreciating how useful it can be, was due to a more appropriate teaching method. What I should first confess is that I don’t like the way maths is taught in France. I spent most of my later schooling years in France. I left England when I […]
An article at CNN (Reuters) covers the trend that criminals are now targeting online games to steal people's hard earned 'virtual' gold. The multiplayer online games are now being targeted by criminals that will try to steal the hard earned rewards from players of succesful games like World of Warcraft. " 'Those of you who […]
It is quite interesting to figure out what type of information gets through to people who are thinking about buying especially when it's businesses, that will spend a fair amount of money. In an article at 'Chief Marketer' called Reasons to Get Evangelical About Evangelism Marketing (link via Mediapost's Marketing Daily), there may be some […]
A very interesting email was waiting for me this morning in my inbox. My week-end round-up from the Guardian which in turn lead me to an article in the Observer/Guardian about "Websites that changed the world". Although this is the list that follows, do take a look at the article, it's far more interesting than […]
While visiting sites that link to UbiKann the other day I came across a site called Neatorama, which covers funny and unusual content. One of the posts covers the story of the WebDNA project. When I tried it the first time the guy's server must have been slowly dying under the numerous hits from so […]
In a New York Times article Saks recent campaigns are discussed. The article explains why Saks has chosen to go with a broad campaign this time as opposed to the previously cashmere specific campaign. As you can see the typography used for the "Want It" campaign uses a ransom note style with the hand poised […]
I came across several interesting articles and comments on articles in French, US and UK newspaper sites today about the foiled terrorist plot in the UK. In Dickey's article called "Foiled Plot doesn't make us safer" there are several comparisons to the period leading up to 9/11 : Panicked CIA analysts flew to Texas to […]
An article at Out-Law explains how Barclays will be providing customers beginning next year with a hand-held car reader device allowing them to generate a one-time password. As Out-Law explains the move follows an Apacs recommendation for more security measures: "In view of the growing incidence of Trojans and phishing attacks directed at internet users, […]
