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[3 Jun 2008 | No Comment | 0 views]

Google’s Beta testing its new service designed to improve Google’s image library. The concept is that you ‘tag’ the image randomly displayed to you and an anonymous partner.

So how does this help all 5.999 billion other citizens of the world? When you tag the image (provided you and your partner do so sensibly), your tag will be added to the image. The next time someone searches for that tagged image, it’ll be higher up the rankings. Not much will be done if one person did it, but on the …

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[25 May 2008 | No Comment | 0 views]

Perhaps could have worded the title better, but it gets the message across. I just switched over to Feedburner (used to use in-house methods) to see what all the fuss was about. So, joined up and claimed my feed. Not too bad. I admit, I had to do it about three times, as it never seemed to save my details. Great! Now what?
This is the point where most bloggers that don’t have a web developer at their disposal stumble. Great, I’ve got my shiny new Feedburner account, and decided to …

Books, Reviews »

[5 May 2008 | One Comment | 0 views]

I just bought a book called How to Cheat in Photoshop CS3 and it is bloody amazing. Great quality, good humor written throughout and in full color which I think is so important for a book about Photoshop!

It is a really good read and I think one of the best Photoshop books out there for creating photorealistic effects.
Enjoy
Simon
ALSO!: Check out my new website if you want! www.simonshand.com

Media, Miscellaneous, News, Ramblings, Reviews »

[2 May 2008 | 2 Comments | 3 views]

I would first like to start off by insulting BT, but I won’t despite the poor connection and general service, as in the end, they’re alright to most other customers I know. Then I want to introduce Sky Broadband. These guys are great. Built from the (as you can see below) Easynet infrastructure, they provide tonnes of bandwidth, on an incredibly fast connection.

7148kb/s is pretty impressive considering I am 50 miles from the exchange on a 8Mb/s connection. Technically speaking, they’re doing the impossible! I realised you probably wouldn’t enjoy …

Apple, Microsoft, News, Reviews »

[29 Apr 2008 | No Comment | 5 views]

First and foremost, I’d like to point out that I’m not a Mac user, and haven’t been for a long time. I won’t be for a long time, thanks to Apple’s ‘generous’ UK pricing scheme. The next thing I’d like to point out, which you are more than likely to know by now, considering you just pressed the link, is that Microsoft has released the latest version of Windows Live Messenger 7.0.
The reason why I am posting this so suddenly is a little attempt at settling the uproar in the …