There’s an interesting article on the Guardian website today: From 26 May this year, every website operating in the UK will be required to inform its users that they are being tracked with cookies, and to ask users for their consent. Read more in the Guardian technology section: How will the new law on cookies [...]
I’m sure you’ve seen how Google change their logo for special occasions – in fact most days they have something going on. This is easy for Google to keep up as they have a dedicated team of people researching and designing new logos! With a bit of cleverness you can achieve some special with themed backgrounds, [...]
The kind folks at LongTail Video (producers of the flash-video-in-your-website widget: JW Player), have written an informative article about HTML5 Video and how well it’s supported on various web browsers. LongTail says that two thirds of Internet users are running browsers that support HTML5. Click here to read the full article.
So you want a new web site design, or maybe just an upgrade. Maybe you want to set up an E-commerce shop, or give your customers access to their data online? All of this sounds great in theory, but you have to make the right choice of supplier. Get it wrong and you could be [...]
Google has finally released it’s Chromebook computer, which is essentially a computer with a browser on it. That doesn’t seem much to spend upwards of £300 when you can download Google Chrome browser for free on the laptop you have at the moment. In fact, it is easy to belittle the achievement of this computer as it [...]
Probably ‘the’ most talked about subject in the UK is the weather. If the seaweed was wet, it was raining. If the pinecone was closed, it was cold.These days, we can get the current/forecast for any town or city on the planet (within reason). You’ll see weather forecasts all over the internet and for those [...]
It’s easy to forget to back-up your files. It’s easier to trust in the harddrive, deep within your computer, whirring away. Until it fails and then you get that prickly feeling down the back of your shirt as you remember the last time you made of copy of those files. Especially that important file you [...]
For those under 20 it must seem that the ‘Web’ has always been there, it being simply unimaginable for it not to exist. Even for those older (I’m in my mid-40′s now) the Internet has become an integral part of our daily lives and one that we would be hard pressed to do without. What [...]