Speed matters.. Now google is forcing people to care
Google will begin penalizing advertisers whose landing pages take a long time to load, reports CNET. A post on its AdWords Blog reports Google will start looking at the length of time it takes for a...
View ArticleIE6 Duplicating content
Well - shouldn’t write about ie6 bugs anymore but thought was worth a mention to the kids over at http://www.positioniseverything.net. Once again they have provided the only real working solution for...
View ArticleDo you really care about being tracked?
Begging the question, how much do you care when people actually track you without you knowing. A NY Assemblyman is pushing for a law to use personal information about consumers for advertising without...
View ArticleJobs.ie Hacked
It happens all the time, but whenever it does it makes you wonder what has really been taken. The great thing is that Jobs.ie did face up to the fact and were good enough to tell people like myself,...
View ArticlePhotoshop .ico plugin
Well finally I have found it. A free plugin that allows you to create ico files directly from photoshop. Check it out over at : http://www.telegraphics.com.au/svn/icoformat/trunk/dist/README.htmlÂ
View ArticleSkype for the iPhone is here
Love it, love it love it - http://www.fring.com/iphone/ Isreali company Fring has brought its VoIP application, also called Fring, to the iPhone. The free application will work on any jailbreaken’d...
View ArticleTwittering getting too much
Brilliant idea over at Twittersnooze. When you have too many follows to manage and some of them are at a conference or just annoying your mobile inbox - snooze them for a few days and take a breather....
View ArticleTest test and test again
A frustrating thing for any web developer or tester is having to have multiple browsers and multiple versions of such running to properly test applications. That doesnt really seem that bad until...
View ArticleCreating high performance sites
It is a common aim to make your sites faster and leaner and Nate Koetchley from Yahoo! did an exemplar job of providing the grind and grunt of what people have to do to help make their sitesÂ...
View ArticleGoogle Image Search - soon to be ad enriched!?
So, Google is looking to lift their slowing profits by monetizing another product. Google image search is about to introduce image Ads. Good news for people wanting to sell through image ad inventory,...
View ArticleBuild an iPhone App/Site
Was just reading the article over on Slashdot  and found the best link to a UI library to easily create a iPhone enabled site. * The section Using iUI and creating iPhone views points outThe iUI...
View ArticleScroll a DIV on the iPhone
There are numourous ways and Javascripts out there to sort out a scrolling panel. Although when it comes to getting one that works on a Safari Browser in the iPhone when a double finger action is usedÂ...
View ArticleNEW BBC homepage at its best
Just took a look at the BBC website ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/Â ) and was pleasantly surprised! Personalised information, with docking of news snippets, and a host of other features. If you haven’t...
View ArticleHotmail out for the count on Firefox
When a major player doesn’t support major browsers what does one think, other head in the sand. Hotmail has been slow loading and throwing un-responsive javascript errors for a long time now in Firefox...
View ArticleAnother multi-IE test tool
Just a quick note to let you all know there is a new IE testing tool out there over at : http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage This is another option instead of installing the MultipleIE...
View ArticleAutomatic logout - good or not?
When an updat is rolled out across a system or across a site there is an expected down time. However when we are dealing with the world wide web there is no 3am at the same time everywhere - so what...
View ArticleAnywhere, anytime flight info with FlightCHECK
A new product has just been launced over at YouTXT - its called FlightCHECK. Based on the same simple principles of providing useful information quickly and easily through TXT, FlightCHECK is an...
View ArticleCreative commons - Audio, visual, text & images
Whatever it is you need, the guys and gals over at creative commons have got it for you to use. Basically Creative Commons ” provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators...
View ArticleUsability Methods Reference
Yeah yeah - we know - usability and user research is important. We always get told it, but in reality it isnt that easy to get your company or those of clients you are consulting with to get on board...
View ArticleUser experience inside and out: The strategy of persuasive design
A brilliant webcast over at Human Factors International about how the Internet has created a “self-service” mindset. Employees (inside) and consumers (outside) expect to find information and complete...
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