January 2009
36 posts
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Accessibility in web design →
Many people see accessibility as a need to give those with disabilities special treatment. They consider it an additional expense that will not give much tangible improvement on their sales, and so…
Jan 30th
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Feature request for Google Reader / Tumblr
One of the biggest problems with subscribing to lots of RSS feeds (I have around 90) is duplicate content — a particularly interesting story is blogged, reblogged, twittered and linked to by many different sites that you read. Having all your subscriptions in one service such as Google Reader or Tumblr should allow for some better organising. Perhaps they should add an intelligent feature which...
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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UK will not legislate on piracy →
The UK government will not force ISPs to clamp down on illegal file sharing, says Intellectual Property Minister David Lammy.
Jan 29th
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Government touts science for all →
An initiative aimed at reducing public perception of science as elitist is being launched by the UK government.
Jan 29th
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New in Labs: Offline Gmail →
Posted by Andy Palay, Gmail engineer Web-based email is great because you can check it from any computer, but there’s one little catch: it’s inherently limited by your internet connection. From…
Jan 29th
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Pockets
Andy: I have having things in my pockets
Me: But thats what pockets are for!
Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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“People write to me that evolution is only a theory. Well, it is not a theory....”
– Sir David Attenborough Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life, BBC One, 9pm, Sunday, February 1
Jan 28th
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Bulletproof Mobile Device Detection and Style... →
I will be using this on some new projects! (via karldawson)
Jan 28th
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“Not one of our crop plants or domestic animals exists in the wild: they have all...”
– Prof. Vivian Moses - in response to Jamie Oliver’s claim about the benefits of ‘natural food’. Science for Celebrities (see the PDF leaflet)
Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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“In a recent usability test I observed, about half the participants actually got...”
– The scourge of new windows - why you should not force website visitors to open links in new windows.
Jan 27th
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“I’ve been doing a life time of research into chocolate - mostly practical.”
– Kat Arney, The Naked Scientists
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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LockTight Secures Your Mac With a Hotkey →
Mac OS X only: Screen locker utility LockTight adds a shortcut key combination for OS X users to quickly lock your workstation from the keyboard.
Jan 23rd
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Cross Browser CSS Sticky Footer →
Forcing a footer to stick to the bottom of a page is sometimes challenging. CSS Sticky Footer presents a cross browser solution including Google Chrome.
Jan 23rd
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Nokia, Microsoft drop while Apple stock soars →
Jan 23rd
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Is it shallow to flick through all the HD channels on Sky first, and only resort to the other ‘lesser’ channels if there’s nothing good on? I guess it is. In that case, we’re shallow ;)
Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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Whitehouse.gov redesign →
New Obama Administration version of whitehouse.gov just launched. ‘Change’ looks pretty good to me :)
Jan 20th
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“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
– Oscar Wilde (via reluctantbuddha)
Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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jQuery.jparallax →
jParallax turns a selected element into a ‘window’, or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and, depending on their dimensions (and options for layer initialisation), they move by different amounts, in a parallaxy kind of way.
Jan 20th
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jQuery.popeye - an inline lightbox alternative →
Jan 20th
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It’s a bit late for new years resolutions, but here are some of the things I want to achieve (or at least begin to achieve) in 2009: To be more frequent with blog posts, and to put more thought into it I went from blogging almost every day at university to nearly stopping blogging. While not as many new and exciting things are happening in my life (University was very exciting and new, life...
Jan 19th
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Animal Crossing on Facebook
karldawson via scottfreeman: The application is caled City Folk Friends, and it’s to help people who play Animal Crossing: City Folk meet fellow players and swap friend codes so they can play online together. Loving this! I’m also on Animal Crossing Community but have trouble finding people who have their gates open at the same time as I want to go out :)
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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I have a new favourite movie! Hairspray! It’s so camp, funny and musical.. and what can I say — Zac Efron!
Jan 18th
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Jan 16th
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Flowplayer - Flash Video Player for the Web →
Jan 16th
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“How many Google Chrome users does it take to change a lightbulb? None. The...”
Jan 12th
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Report: Gmail about one-third as expensive as... →
A new report by the research company has taken a look under the hood of both in-house and commercial e-mail services, and put some numbers on the per-user costs associated with a variety of options….
Jan 10th
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Surf Through Google Earth →
By Jason Toff, Google Mac Team This year for Macworld a Google engineer, David Phillip Oster, wrote a fun application that allows you to surf through Google earth.  Watch the video below and read…
Jan 9th
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The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing →
Hilarious! (contains bad language and violence!)
Jan 2nd