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Gullivers World: what browsers DOES it work on?

July 22, 2009

Take a look at Gulliver’s Dinosaur and Farm Park’s website . Try it first in Firefox (20% of users): I defy you to work out what’s going on with the calendar. It also doesn’t work properly in Internet Explorer 8. Just daft. Oh and, whatever you do, don’t click “Your Feedback” right at the bottom [...]

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Cineworld Stupidity

July 22, 2009

This is the ever-so nicely designed widget on the Cineworld site. Let’s look at the colour scheme: Dark blue = already shown Light blue = hmm, not sure Dark red = “Delux” (no way of working out what that means) Light red = “Digital” (again, no idea what that means) Putting aside the fact that [...]

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You get what you pay for

July 2, 2009

Logo creation is an art, but I needed a logo for a new venture quickly and I fell for the promise of the £25 logo company (www.25poundlogo.co.uk). The promises were good, the portfolio good. My brief was clear, the results were utter shit. Particularly hilarious was design 1: I’d said that a votive candle was [...]

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Blown away by Amazon

June 10, 2009

It was with great trepidation that I told Amazon that the Sony Cybershot camera I bought for my daughter last Christmas had broken (the lens cover wouldn’t open). I had read horror stories on the internet of their intransigence as soon as a product was more than 6 months old and I expected to be [...]

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Confused?

June 10, 2009

Just been to Confused.com to get a home insurance quote. I can’t get past the basic details page because I’m told I’ve made errors even though there are no indicators on the page to say where these errors might be and the information looks fine to me.

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Waiting for Flash Player to connect to debugger: THANKS Adobe

March 27, 2009

I have just had the most frustrating afternoon I can remember in a long time. I’ve been using Flex 3 and have recently upgraded to the Flash Player 10 debug version. Since then, every time I try to run an application in debug mode I get the message “Waiting for Flash Player to connect to [...]

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Siklls for kdis

December 12, 2008

Just seen an expensive TV ad for what looks like an expensive service claiming to teach kids Maths and English (skills4kids.tv) Right at the top of the Product Demo page is the line: Pick a topic… Choose from our exstensive Maths and English Grammar Lessons Presumably Spelling isn’t part of the English lessons…

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Flex for Free

November 16, 2008

In association with my PCPro column (due to appear in the January issue), here’s how to create Flex 3 applications for absolutely nowt. Before I begin, however, there’s no doubt that the most productive and efficient way of developing for Flex is using Adobe’s Flex Builder: effectively a plug-in to the Eclipse IDE that adds [...]

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Adobe and Apple, love them or hate them

August 27, 2008

I really want to like both these companies: they make some stunning products but they certainly make it difficult. The main gripe I have is with the almost constant updating required. Barely a week goes by without being prompted to download and install a new incremental version of iTunes, Quicktime, Safari, Acrobat or, as I [...]

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5 things I love about Apple

July 21, 2008

The ipod Touch. A thing of beauty: the first device to “wow” me in a long time (until the Wii) The Macbook. Can look a bit like a scratched toy after long use and expensive but lovely. Keynote. Everything Powerpoint should have been. iTunes. Yes, I hate the constant updating and I truly hate having [...]

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