UIWeb.com post an interesting and useful article on how to run a design critique. The article shows the many different ways to drive the design process, one process being the …
Marine mammals don't see the ocean as blue
More on colour vision: I came across one of the most interesting journal articles the other day whilst researching colour vision. I found that whales and seals don’t see the …
The Reqwireless Webviewer for any J2ME mobile phone
A look at the Reqwireless Webviewer 2.0 for any mobile Java J2ME device. The WebViewer allows you to access the Web and any website for that matter, via your Java-enabled …
The EMACSpeak screen reader available free to everyone
Jeffrey Zeldman points out the EMACSpeak screen reader which is free to the public. Along side other more expensive screen readers available such as JAWS, this Source Forge project is …
First Monday: Discrepancies in statistics of the Digital Divide
First Monday post an excellent article by Elizabeth Davison and Shelia R. Cotten titled, “Connection discrepancies: Unmasking further layers of the digital divide”. The article comments on misleading information during …
Stop Design comments on public design advantages
Douglas Bowman from Stop Design comments on “Public Design” and the interesting ways in which public comments during development is helping commercial and non-commercial websites better develop, consider and design …
Fast Company on Google’s growth
Fast Company has an interesting article this week on the growth and growth of Google. One of the interesting points comments on Google’s strong focus on the User and also …
AustralianIT: Telstra’s to spoil 3G launch
The Australian IT comments in an interesting article on Telstra’s launch of their 2.5G mobile network as a way of disrupting plans for Hutchison launch of 3G at the end …
Spirited Away wins Oscar for best animated feature film
Spirited Away, the animated film by Hayao Miyazaki wins an Oscar for best animated feature film www.oscars.com/oscarnight/winners/win_32292.html
Accessibility tools to help develop and view
Accessify.com lists a collection of useful Accessibility tools to help you both develop and view any site with accessibility in mind. The tools include everything from Favlets, add-ons for Dreamweaver …
SpaceImaging.com a gallery of cities, events from space
I came across the Space Imaging website whist visiting Ani Dash’s blog site. The Space Imaging site contains a huge selection of imagery from satellite of locations around the world. …
Watch any television station via the web
Peter forwarded this excellent url of wwiTV, who show a listing of all streams of international television stations. http://wwitv.com/portal
A look at the .htaccess Apache file
A useful series of Apache documentation on the .htaccess file. The article covered redirecting urls, denying users by IP and other useful tips you quickly forget. http://javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml
Undocumented Flash MX features
Cafedave posts a great link to some Flash MX undocumented features. In particular, undocumented ActionScript such as NetStream which helps further control the use of MICs and CAMERAs in Flash …
A checklist for letting staff go successfully
Cafedave posts an article on better ways of successfully letting go of staff in a business environment www.macrorecruitment.com.au/terminatingstaff.html