Yours truly will be in next month’s edition of Web Designer Magazine ( http://www.webdesignermag.co.uk/ ) availble in stands at the end of August. Here’s a couple photos from the shoot : My thanks to Gareth Dutton for the great shot : http://garethduttonphotography.blogspot.com/2010/07/more-portraiture-or-moretraiture-look.html and Alex Suchet at unit9 http://www.unit9.com for the excellent organising.
When logged into my Media Temple Word Press today, I was greeted with the following code sitting in my Admin : Incase your curious, this indicates that the site has been hacked. The code in the image above loads malicious Javascript to redirect users from your site to somewhere else. This type of attack is [...]
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It’s a bit old news that Dr. Cliff Kushler, inventor of T9 predictive texting, was creating a sucessor for touch devices, but I hadn’t seen the demos till today after reading an excellent article on Ars Technica : http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/reviews/2010/07/hands-on-swype-keyboard-for-android-is-sweeptastic.ars I’m pretty amazed by the speed, but what really enthuses me is the possibility that, like T9, Swype could [...]
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I have to give a big two thumbs up to the iPhone App, “The Leak in Your Home Town” created by Mark Skwarek and Joesph Hocking. In summary, after grabbing their iPhone App you can head off to any BP station, point your camera at the iconic British Petroleum logo and voila! You’ve got yourself [...]
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Recently I’d read an article by Richard Fink at A List Apart entitled “Web Fonts at the Crossing” which is an excellent summary of where browsers and standards are regarding embedding fonts in HTML pages. This is a technology that I haven’t read up on recently, mostly due to the fact that working in Flash [...]
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Special thanks to my friend Anders Andersson over at Helpful Strangers for once again designing an amazing poster to advertise my annual 4th of July BBQ! Make sure to also check out the great one Anders did last year : http://blog.untitledfornow.com/2009/07/06/4th-of-july-bbq-in-london-2009/
From time to time I sign up for a Beta testing of a new game, it’s a free way to have some fun and can feel very rewarding, if you are actually participating and giving feedback! So when I got a mail from Ijji today about a new beta, I clicked through to the website to [...]
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