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Happy Birthday to the World Wide Web
This weekend the world wide web turned the big 20! It began as a simple page of links that allowed a group of scientists to share data in the confines of their laboratories. But in the 20 years since, it … Continue reading
Captcha is cracked
Whilst checking my morning emails, blogs and subscriptions I came across this story which could have implications for security on the web. Captcha, the security feature which asks the user to input a randomly generated word to access specific areas … Continue reading
The evolution of Internet enabled devices
The Internet is a wondrous thing. It’s an unrivalled source of knowledge for its users, and as web designers and web developers, it keeps many of us from becoming homeless with “Will code for food” signs hanging around our necks! … Continue reading
mobile internet stats and trends
Tecmark has recently published a report into the UK’s mobile internet usage, analysing the stats and treads for 2010/11. In this blog, I am going to highlight their findings and assess what impact mobile internet usage could have on dental … Continue reading
Adobe contribute to the W3C
Adobe has never engaged with the web community in a forward thinking way before, but they have contributed an idea to the W3C for the official CSS3 specification that everyone would use to validate their code.
Apple has revealed the cost of the ipad2
If, like my wife, you’re a fan of Apple and in particular the ipad, then, you will no doubt be interested in the launch of the new ipad2, and the prices that will be charged. And, of even more interest … Continue reading
Making the most of the new Facebook fan pages
A very useful and insightful article about the new Facebook fan pages and what you can do with them arrived in my inbox this morning. If your starting out you may not have noticed any changes, but if you have … Continue reading
Android is faster than i-phone
I know this is personal, in that I love my HTC Android phone, but independant research of 45 000 page loads has shown that Android is 52% faster on average, and i-phone was slower on 84% of sites. Whilst this … Continue reading
Microsoft encourage their users to switch from IE6
Over the weekend Microsoft unleashed a new website, purely dedicated to encouraging their customers and users to switch from IE6 to a newer version of Internet Explorer. This is a huge step for a large software company to encourage its … Continue reading
So many browsers…
With so many browsers and so many versions of browsers available, it’s hard as a designer to get a website to view the same, with the same functionality, on every PC, Mac and mobile device that may view it. With … Continue reading
