Archive for October 2nd, 2007
« Previous EntriesControlling Web Page Backgrounds With CSS
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007For many years, web sites all over the world generously offered free tiled background patterns to budding young web designers as a way of “enhancing” their web pages. Derided by many designers in the field as tacky, these backgrounds were generally used sparingly, if at all, by professional designers, especially where download speed was of [...]
Will You Do This To Your Lamborghini?
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Lamborghini is a well known brand of high performance Italian sports car that is now a subsidiary of German car manufacturer Audi. Usually when we see a car like this we stop a little because a Lamborghini can catch your eye very easily. In this case the owner wanted more from his Lamborghini, and he [...]
Colours Make All The Differences In Design
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Colours Make All The Differences In Design, check out the colours of the Top 20 Magazines and their impact.
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Need that right (free)image for your next design project?
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Well, the best things in life usually doesn’t come free. But free things can be good too.
Check out this page for a listing of 100 legal images.
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How Beijing Olympic Got Its Logo
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Lol, we are not anti China but this one is really creative, how Beijing Olympic got it’s logo…
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Microsoft Updates Live Search
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007A group of journalists, bloggers, and advertisers spent the day Wednesday at Microsoft’s Mountain View offices for a view of several improvements to Live Search. We’ll have more coverage of the “Searchification” event itself later today, but I wanted to briefly mention some of the improvements to Live Search that have been made both to [...]
Rank is something we bloggers take very seriously.
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007To all bloggers who are crazy over your blog ranking… here’s a must read.
The problem is, nobody seems to be that good at measuring it — not yet, anyway.For the past couple years, bloggers have loosely relied on Technorati to do the job, with blogs ranked according to their number of incoming links from unique [...]
Google App Updates
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Google’s pleased to announce that you can now create and share presentations with Google Docs — the application in Google Apps formerly known as Docs & Spreadsheets.
With this feature, you can create a new set of slides from scratch or import existing presentations and share and collaborate on them in real time. [...]
Nokia Maps
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Nokia is buying digital mapmaker Navteq for $8 billion. (See WSJ coverage here). Navteq powers many in-car navigation services, but it is also one of the providers of mapping data used in Google Maps. Every mobile device should include mapping services. It’s a natural fit. But will Nokia try to charge extra for this [...]
Can you spot a phish? Play Carnegie Mellon’s game and see
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Test your knowledge and learn how to tell the URL of a fraudulent site from a legitimate one
September 28, 2007 (Network World) — Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an online game designed to teach Internet users about the dangers of phishing.
Featuring a cartoon fish named Phil, the game, called Anti-Phishing [...]