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 [...]
Categories: Development,Professional,Security
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 [...]
Categories: Design,Development,Professional,User Experience
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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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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Need to show the same video on your site to people on an iPad as well as Firefox 3.6, IE7? Want to support HTML5 Video but don’t know where to start with which browser supports which video format and how to detect properly? If so I’d suggest taking a look at the solution by Camen [...]
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It’s an odd thing to say, but when my Chromium browser (the beta of Chrome) crashes, it atleast gives me a smile to see… I know mister tab, I’m sad you crashed too. But you tried your best, and that’s what counts. It’s nice to have a product that has a bit of personality to [...]
Categories: Design,Humor,Professional,User Experience
It’s been a busy month for us at unit9. We’ve just completed work on this year’s Carphone Warehouse X Factor site. Like last year’s campaign, this year you can call in from a mobile and leave an audition singing one of eight songs. This year’s site has added a lot to that though, and the [...]
Categories: Professional