A very interesting article has been posted over at SoftwareDeveloper.com about using AJAX so that your site isn’t hiding content from the likes of Google : How to : Get Google and AJAX to play nicely.
The article gives some good examples of what to avoid doing and alternative methods to those generally used that will […]
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Using AJAX properly, the way Google likes it
Published 1 year, 3 months ago in Tech, Design, Code and Web. 0 Comments
Longing for a really unique and luxury iPod again
Published 2 years ago in Design, Personal, Trend, Music and Video. 0 CommentsThe Washington Post writes about the iPod and how with iTunes it holds nearly 70 percent of the market. When I bought my first (and only) iPod several years ago it was a luxury product. The iPod has kept key functions and design concepts while getting smaller thinner and more powerful.
Even though the new iPods […]
Bob Dylan plays for Apple
Published 2 years, 1 month ago in Design, Trend, Advertising, Music and Video. 0 CommentsTake a look at the recent advert for Apple’s iTunes & iPod, featuring Bob Dylan. The advert plays with the well known shadows concept commonly used in both iPod and iTunes ads, however each person in the ad like Dylan is recognisable regardless of the shadow effect…
Enjoy
The Google advert will call you
Published 2 years, 1 month ago in News, Experimental, Travel, Trend, Advertising, Web and Marketing. 0 CommentsPart of my family live near Leeds, while my close family live in France. I was looking to compare prices for flights from Paris to Leeds and a little green thing caught my eye next to the results on Google.
My mum’s flight from Leeds to France a few weeks ago was just after the foiled […]
Captcha Brain Power
Published 2 years, 1 month ago in Thoughts, Design, Experimental, Trend and Web. 0 CommentsI just came across a very interesting Google Video from Google. Luis von Ahn, a Carnegie Mellon professor, discusses the Captcha concept used to stop automatic systems from filling in forms and how currently Spam companies are trying to get around it.
Captcha is used to describe a system that allows a computer to automatically generate […]
Google, via it’s evangelist Adam Lasnik is starting to provide SEO classes. As you can see here the seminars are cheap and open to all.
It begs the question about Google asking people to create web sites for people and not for their robots. However, it is true that the best idea is to build your […]
Superb time lapse photo shoot
Published 2 years, 1 month ago in Design, Photos, Trend and Blog. 0 CommentsI just came across this photo set of the same view using a time lapse intervelometer device. I was lead to it from a remixed version over on flickr : by ‘narphorium‘ (he explains how he did it in the comments with Photoshop)
Do check the original and the remix, both are really good pieces of […]
A CD from Sony that can tell how many times you have copied it !!!
I can remember that Martin, a flat mate at University, used to leave his copy of New Scientist hanging around in the kitchen for us to read. Since that time I have often bought a copy and now check the website. […]
Jeremiah Grossman demonstrates an issue with CSS and visited links which allows sites to verify the sites you have visited prior to theirs.
The issue/bug/vulnerability isn’t new, as comments explain, it was first discovered in 2002 and is well documented here at the seclist.org site.
CSS has a feature that can be abused to exactly […]
WebWag : your personal page
Published 2 years, 1 month ago in News, Design, Personal and Web. 2 CommentsA 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 the […]
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