How to make an animated thumbnail
Thumbnails are one of the purest pieces of usability the digital age has created. In essence a thumbnail is a…
How to go viral
Going viral is the holy grail of advertising these days. Mom and Pop run businesses can become global names overnight…
Extraordinary day to night photography
Our lives, particularly within the urban environment, are governed by light; half natural, half artificial. Light is enticing; promising excitement,…
Yesterday, Internet Explorer seemed so far away…
…now it looks as if it’s here to stay. Having been introduced as part of the Windows 8 operating system…
Kestrel flys into view
Born in London, England in the early 1950s, Alan Meeks began his career as a trainee artist, typographer and typeface…
Google simplifies but retains dead space
It is a commonly held view that the minimalist approach to design is what lifted Google, in the early days…
jqMobi rolls out support for IE10
There has been much cross-over between web development and application development in recent years. The biggest trend being the increase…
#instacane
Since the advent of the world wide web, people have been using it to bear witness to the events around…
A bright idea from Philips
Now the lights are coming back on in New York, a lot of our regular readers may be feeling a…
Google takes on Hurricane Sandy
With Hurricane Sandy still lashing the North East of America, Google was forced to modify its launch event for the…
Windows 8: a tale of two OS
Today, Microsoft will be launching Windows 8, the biggest redesign of its flagship product in nearly two decades; making October…
Google allow you to plead ignorance
Since the launch of Google’s Penguin update in April, sites that rely on black-hat link building including purchased links and…
Firefox gets friendly
Now that the dust has begun to settle on Mozilla’s go-stop-go launch for Firefox 16, the company is able to…
Google folds
If there is an issue more likely than the fold, to cause web designers to draw battle lines and pick…
Microsoft’s TypeScript receives a mixed reaction
The one ECMAScript it’s still okay to like, JavaScript has in recent years shrugged off its ‘under-powered’, ‘bloated’ and ‘incomplete’…