Despite a hugely successful shindig at Aral’s there was a good turn-out for the morning key-note by Mike Downey and the Adobe crew. Good job too as it was a very interesting and informative keynote with some looks over the past year and a couple of sneak peaks at Flash 9 and the upcoming Apollo [...]
Continue readingNiqui has posted something many people are getting more and more frustrated by lately, “Fair Usage”. This term is being overly abused and is a blatent form of misleading the public. Whenever you read the term “Unlimited” be sure to check the small print, in this day and age Unlimited actually translates to Limited in [...]
Continue readingEvery time I’ve tried to install VS.net 2003 I’ve had to deal with this error, the solution is out there on many other sites but thought I’d put it here for my own reference. Often when trying to create a web project in VS.net you’ll get the error: “Visual Studio .NET has detected that the [...]
Continue readingLast month myself and Colin travelled up to London to attend the LFPUG and saw two excellent presentations from Rob Bateman and Tink. During Rob’s presentation on Optimising visual interfaces for the human brain something was brought up that I hadn’t considered previously; the difference between “Intuition” and “Conditioning”. This wasn’t a major part of [...]
Continue readingA security vulnerability has been identified in major web browsers Internet Explorer and FireFox. This vulnerability exists through websites that allow user generated HTML content and exploiting the browsers’ remember password functionality. More info about the browser vulnerability.
Continue readingCool site for testing connection speed with a flash UI: www.speedtest.net My Results (home)
Continue readingI’ve not been posting much lately as I’ve set myself a new project for my spare time that for once doesn’t involve me being sat in front of a computer screen. Last Saturday I picked up my old 1992 Mini Cooper from a friend’s place where I had been storing it for two years. It’s [...]
Continue readingI recently involved myself in the sharing of frustrations about shocking customer service from banks and telecoms providers in the UK with Aral. Today I had some troubles with one of our customer’s emails apparently not being received, we use MDaemon mail server. I hit a brick wall and called the guys at ZenSoftware who [...]
Continue readingGuy Watson has some details on an update just made to the beta version of the coming Flash Player 9. Read about the Flash Player 9 Beta Update
Continue readingAny decent web designer nowadays understands the value of cross browser and cross platform compatability. You can put a serious dent in your site traffic by only making it available to say, just Internet Explorer. Unfortunately the luxury of having every browser on every platform isn’t something alot of agencies have the time or money [...]
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