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What’s wrong with Outlook? – Tatham Oddie
It has been an interesting few weeks in the world of web standards for email. The boys from Campaign Monitor executed a successful awareness campaign in the form of fixoutlook.org which rapidly racked up over 24,000 Tweets and overtook the Iran Election in Twitter’s trending topics. Unfortunately for all of us, it has been a case ...
Collecting add-ons
Posted by John in Shared, Uncategorized on June 17th, 2009
Mozilla has recently re-vamped their addons site, and with it publicly released Collections. Collections is an essentially an awesome way of grouping a bunch of add-ons for Firefox. You can then subscribe to these "Collections" and manage them using the "Add-on Collector" add-on for Firefox. You can make your own collection or select one that's already made ...
IE6 Upgrade Warning – Google Code
I do always like a nice way to stop IE6 from further harming people's computers. Telling them they should upgrade is but a small service website owners can use to help people upgrade their browser. The ie6-upgrade-warning is a little script 7.9kb that displays a warning message politely informing the user to upgrade the browser to ...
Don’t Click Here – Placing Links in Context
If you’re interested in reading this article, click here. On second thought. Don’t. It’s a common usability problem. Links that don’t mean anything. How are you using links on your website? Don’t Click Here - Placing Links in Context | Build Internet. A short article to let us know it's ok to not tell people to "click here". ...
New Paper Shredder Actually Recycles Paper at the Office : TreeHugger
A vision for the future: no more sorting, paper separating, curbside collection. Just feed your business papers into the shredder, turn the Meiko SEED system on and overnight the used paper is recycled into a clean, fresh pile of 1500 new sheets of paper. The Meiko SEED paper recycling system was introduced recently at the ...
15 Must Bookmark Sites for Design Inspiration
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Is Online Censorship On the Rise?
Censorship of the Internet is definitely alive and well in countries where oppressive government regimes seek to control the flow of information, such as China, Uzbekistan, Cuba, and Iran. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) found that there are 125 journalists behind bars around the world as of the start of this month. That’s actually ...
Userfly: Usability From Your Actual Users
Chris Estreich, a senior engineer at classifieds site Oodle today soft-launched a new site aimed at web developers called Userfly. Using JavaScript, Userfly captures and records browsing data from your visitors and lets you plat it back as a movie later. The site is really rough — this is a very beta release — and ...
P2P? It’s TV’s fault
As there's clearly not enough handwringing over Hollywood suing iiNet, I should add my two cents - it's Australia's miserly free-to-air broadcaster wot's to blame. Elsewhere in the first world, the film, television and music industries have warmed to the idea that setting lawyers on ISPs and consumers isn't the most effective way to stamp out ...
Australia’s Net Censorship Sparks Outrage
One of the most important Internet stories in Australia right now is that country’s federal government’s plan to start requiring ISP level censorship of the Internet. As part of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s AU$125.8 million Cyber-saftey plan. The plan requires that ISPs deliver a “clean-feed” web service to homes, school, and and public web access ...
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