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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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[3 Jun 2008 | 5 Comments | 0 views]

A new breed of I.T. professionals are brewing nowadays.  They are called “devigners”…These individuals have learned to fuse both design and development to create Rich Internet Applications.  With the market headed towards RIA’s wouldn’t you want to create a stateful client where significant changes to the view would not require to reload another page?
Web Applications present data within web pages that appear within a browser.  These web pages provide an easy way for users to interact with data.
Web Apps typically consist of a number of different layers

The user interface …

Apple, Microsoft, News »

[2 Jun 2008 | No Comment | 3 views]

One of two things are going to happen. Either Steve Jobs is up to his usual tricks and is investing in ways to send those who follow Apple’s patterns off the trail, or MacRumours (and others) have got something right.
The sudden outburst of rumours are generally fuelled by the evidence spotted in the MacRumours forum. They noticed Apple’s recent purchase of www.me.com. This was recently followed by the acquisition of www.mobileme.com. I’m no expert, but it’s a safe bet that these domains cost a lot of money, as the …

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[31 May 2008 | No Comment | 1 views]

Theres something slightly endearing to the thought of a brilliant site, with incredible content and with a beautiful layout and design. Unfortunately it is rare you get such combinations.
Therefore, for people who have a problem understanding whats good looking, and whats not. Here’s a rough idea of what I believe is good and bad about some designs on the web today.

At that’s an idea, I thoroughly believe the writers here, including myself, have tried to post interesting and intuitive posts that can benefit, or at least cause a slight flicker …

Apple, Media, Microsoft, News »

[30 May 2008 | 2 Comments | 2 views]

It’s here! Unbelievably, for some reason, not found before, by the masses, Internet Explorer has been ported (well…) for Intel OS X. Using the Wine platform, IE6 and IE7 has been ported to Linux, then to OS X.
It’s built under GPL, so the source is freely available from the main site.
Why is this so important?
A huge portion of the web design industry is Mac-based, as designers most appreciate the design put into the Mac. The only obstacle against them, in the past, was that they couldn’t test on arguably the …