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Archive for May, 2008

30 May, 2008

Google Gets a New Favicon

Posted by: Shaun In: Design| General

Remember Google’s recognizable favicon? It was a capital ‘G’ in blue within a white box with Google’s colours used as border colours.
Well, today I noticed that google have changed their favicon.ico to a lower-case ‘g’ and appears to have some sort of shadow.
It’s good to see Google developing but does this favicon really shout ‘Google’? [...]

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28 May, 2008

We Google For Your Phone Number

Posted by: Shaun In: Technology

Panorama is a series of documentaries here in the United Kingdom, this week’s episode was about keeping kids safe online. They stooped to the level of ‘To catch a predator’ which was aired by America’s NBC and posing as a young girl, Panorama were able to net an Internet paedophile.
What Panorama don’t know is that [...]

28 May, 2008

GTA IV: Driving Under the Influence

Posted by: Shaun In: Gaming

Kotaku editor Owen Good decides to retaliate against the critics of GTA IV such as Glenn Beck, who produces scare-mongering videos in order to save gamers from the mindless violence involved in GTA IV.
Owen gets dunk in-game before getting himself drunk and playing the game, this is obviously for experimentation and to prove that GTA [...]

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28 May, 2008

Street Fighter Coming to Xbox 360, PS3 and PC

Posted by: Shaun In: Gaming

Capcom have placed a countdown timer on the official Street Fighter website, streetfighter.com.
Apparently, they have officially announced that Street Fighter will be coming to Xbox 360, PS3 and for the PC. That’s if Kotaku and Destructoid’s sources are up-to-speed.
Maybe if we go by the countdown timer, we’ll be seeing something new in three days. Here’s [...]

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27 May, 2008

Microsoft Talks About Windows 7, Briefly

Posted by: Shaun In: Technology

Cnet recently interviewed Steven Sinofsky (Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering), in order to dig up some information on Microsoft’s future operating system, Windows 7.
The interview itself is rather long and tedious and Sinofsky gives away no major hints as to what we’ll see in Windows 7. The interview tends to wrap around [...]

27 May, 2008

Tweaking Your GUI to Mimic OS X and Leopard

Posted by: Shaun In: Design

Designers love to use Apple Macs, I’ve pondered over the reasoning behind this and it’s not complicated. Apple’s hardware is sleek, shiny and sophisticated. Their operating system is free from viruses, almost. But these aren’t the only things that attract users in the design field to Apple Macs. I think that the GUI itself is [...]

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When I’m designing websites, I have to constantly check up on the output on many browsers. Internet Explorer 6 seems to be a browser that I often have trouble with. Unfortunately I am using the updated Internet Explorer 7 and downloading older versions from the Microsoft download centre will not let you proceed with a [...]

Four days ago, Weezer unveiled their music video for ‘Pork and Beans’. Shockingly, they have decided to base their video around Internet phenomena and popular online memes. Gary Broslma, famously known as the ‘Numa Numa guy’ makes an appearance alongside many other Internet superstars. They even managed to slot in an ‘All your base’ reference.
The [...]

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If you’re a Wordpress developer or someone who regularly designs themes for blogging platforms, you’ll be familiar with RSS and the icon is a very popular part of any blog or website. I decided to dump a few of my bookmarks here in order to help those who are looking to add some RSS love [...]

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