Monthly Archives: March 2006

Run IE7 along side IE6

By Bish | Published: 25/03/2006 – 20:47 | Posted in Internet, Microsoft, Quick | Comments (0)

The latest release beta release of IE7 that coincided with MIX06 has, according to Markus Mielke over at IEBlog, now reached ‘layout complete’ stage. What this means as, Markus goes on to state, is that we can now start developing websites to be compliant with Microsoft’s much improved browser. Though still not perfect, Microsoft has increased the support for CSS and many of the work arounds previously needed for layout have been fixed. Its still not perfect though and there have been some reports of major websites breaking with this new browser.

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Preview: Riya Photo Search – First Impressions

By Bish | Published: 21/03/2006 – 20:03 | Posted in Reviews, Software, Technology, Web2.0 | Comments (4)

Well while not quite a public release, coincidentally I did get an invite to Riya arrive in my mail box today.  Much to my delight, after months of waiting, I finally get the chance to try out this new service. I have got to say that this is one of the new ‘Web 2.0′ services (for want of a much better expression) I have been most excited about, one service that could potentially be worthy of all the hype. Riya’s USP is in the facial and text recognition of photos and the ability to auto-tag what you upload.

 

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Riya: Opening Soon?

By Bish | Published: 21/03/2006 – 11:17 | Posted in News, Quick, Software, Technology, Web2.0 | Comments (0)

Riya’s site is down for ‘maintenance’ and if rumours are to be believed they are about to have their grand opening. The evidence is stacking up, even Danny Yound is blogging about the how close they are to launching this potentially excellent service.

For those who don’t know Riya is a facial and text recognition service for your photo’s that could revolutionise photo sharing and tagging – I can’t wait!

 

Del.icio.us Rolls out Beta of Private Bookmarks

By Bish | Published: 19/03/2006 – 16:50 | Posted in Quick, Technology, Web2.0 | Comments (2)

Delicious has announced a beta rollout of private bookmarks called ‘Private Saving’. Simply go to your settings and enable the option by clicking on, you guessed it, ‘Private saving’. You will then find the option to make private when you next bookmark a page.

Apart from the obvious, i.e. hiding from people what you definitely shouldn’t be looking at, there are more legitimate reasons for people requesting this feature. For example, hiding logins to company intranets or networks, logins to CMS systems and personally I have always been hesitant to bookmark my banks and other financial institutions for fear of advertising this to the wrong people.

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Microsoft Ipod Parody Video

By Bish | Published: 19/03/2006 – 13:47 | Posted in Apple, Design, Microsoft, Quick | Comments (0)

Apparently genuine according to Ipod Observer, this Microsoft Ipod video originated from their own packaging department! It was made for internal purposes and according to Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla, was intended, "to humorously highlight the challenges we have faced RE: packaging and to educate marketers here about the pitfalls of packaging/branding"

Whatever the intention, though clearly tongue in cheek it emphasises the polar difference in branding and design these two rival companies employ. It is well worth checking out.