The Age Website redesign sucks
The Age has just recently redesigned their website. Personally I find there is too much white on the page and I find it very uncomfortable to look at. The previous design had a nice blue page header...
View ArticleMy little Gmail 2 Wish list for Contacts
I just read about "5 little-known Gmail features you may not yet know about".I like having you mail history working with the browser forward and back buttons. The keyboard history in your browser is...
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Gmail select unread emails feature request
When you select all messages on a page in Gmail, it will then give you the option to select all messages under that label. Neat :)A little pet hate is that unread mail count inbox(2), and empty inbox...
View ArticleFlash 9 HD and a new look Adobe.com
Ok, Adobe releases some cool new HD stuff with Flash Player 9 and their website has been given a make over.... but it's so 1990's.. who the hell designs a website these days which is only 800 pixels...
View ArticleFacebook Event Guest list security
One of the difficult things with privacy is the need to offer functionality, but not to provide informatiom that otherwise isn't meant to be shared.With Events on facebook, you can have a hidden guest...
View ArticleAttention FairFax, Page Overlay Ad's suck
<rant mode="on"/>I am a regular reader of The Age, i used to be a subscriber, but i got sick of reading the same articles i read the night before on the way home in the Cheap and Cheerful free...
View ArticleSt Kilda Festival this weekend!
It's on again, not that the St Kilda Fest website is really so useful. Not to get back on my soap box, but it took me ages to work out that next Sunday 10th of February is the main day where St Kilda...
View ArticleAnchors can make great web bookmarks
One of the more useful sites for TV listings in Australia is yourtv.com.au. I have a bookmark for their page with the what's on now and next view view.if you compare the results, you can see why...
View ArticlePicLens, coolest firefox extension ever!
Just read about this over on http://planet.mozilla.org/.Allan Beaufour has just blogged about PicLens which is an amazing 3D picture viewer.Once you install it, every image (on sites like picasa,...
View ArticleWhy doesn't The Age link to sites it covers?
It's a source of endless annoyance when i read The Age online these days, it never provides links to website even when the article is directly about a website... doh!This story is about a blog...
View ArticleiPhone edition of The Age is better than the real one
In yet another modern irony, in the race to support the iPhone ( and all other smartphones like my N95), The Age newspaper has a minimal ad-free 'mobile' edition that is much nicer than the current...
View ArticleOpenLayers Architect
Erik Hazzard just posted an update about his GSoC 2008 Project OLArchitect. OLArchitect is a web based gui/gui for building maps using OpenLayers, it's looking promising. No Mapguide support yet tho...
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Handy little diagram tool - Pencil Project
Pencil is a nice and simple ( i.e. not Visio ) add-on for Firefox which allows for drawing a quick diagram or even a basic application UI's. It supports drag and drop, it's free and it only requires...
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Gmail now has themes!
I quite like the new GMail themes, particularity Night Shade, as seen above. It's a bit rattling to not have the classic gmail view I have burned into my retina after four odd years, but I really like...
View ArticleA few tweaks needed for Google Blog search
Google Blog Search is cool, there's only one thing which bothers me about the interface.Being able to refine your search by time is cool, ie last hour, last 12 hours and so on, but, when you refine a...
View ArticleNew Facebook is lame, what about using that widescreen
Ok, the world et all reckon Facebook screwed up badly with their new design. I concur...People love knobs and buttons to tweak play and configure things (badly but hey), most of the comments I have...
View ArticleiiNet free radio station playlist (m3u) Updated!
I shouldn't be so hard to find, the iiNet Freezone is a classic case of what happens when you give a graphic designer a copy of flash with explaining what the web is all about, nice easy to access...
View Articlethoughts about buzz
so google buzz is here and to use common phrase, disruptive.my thoughts, all in lower casefacebook has replaced most social email, often via facebook messages,less often by wall post and comments. it's...
View ArticleSome Android Market Improvements I'd like
I just this story Hands on: Android Market website a step forward, still lags AppBrain and it's a pretty good review.There's a few basic design things I'd like to see changed on the Android Market.Use...
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