Category Archives: Software

Firefox 2 and IE7 – Not Quite a Browser War

By Bish | Published: 31/10/2006 – 20:47 | Posted in Microsoft, Opinion, Personal, Software, Web, Web Design, Windows | Comments (1)

It looks as though it really is the season to be releasing a browser with the recent official release of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and the third release candidate of Firefox 2. I can’t help feeling that the much of the coverage surrounding the releases really boils down to hype with the media and blogsphere trying to build this into another browser war.A ‘war’, ‘battle’, ‘face off’ or whatever you want to label it, regardless of who is contesting , requires two fundamental factors; 2 willing contenders.

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How to: Configure Gmail on your K800i……

By Bish | Published: 24/09/2006 – 21:40 | Posted in How To, Software, Technology | Comments (32)

……or most other phones for that matter.

With the screen mysteriously dying on my w800i, I decided was forced to upgrade early. It turns out not to be a bad thing and can honestly say I am really impressed with the K800i. The camera is first class, the ui quick and well designed and the hit on size and weight I have taken compared to the w800 is bearable. This truly is the first 3G phone that I would consider having after all the bricks I have seen my friends with.

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Crazy Egg Finally Goes Live!

By Bish | Published: 21/08/2006 – 23:31 | Posted in Design, News, Opinion, Software, Technology, Web Design, Web2.0 | Comments (1)

CrazyEgg LogoCrazy Egg has finally opened its doors to the public after what feels like a long closed beta session. I had the good fortune to unofficially test the product probably 3 or 4 months back now and was impressed by service as a whole though, at the time, performance was less than real time. For those that don’t know, Crazy Egg offers some great usability testing of your site, allowing you to see how people react to different layouts and styles for example. By monitoring people’s interactions with your site, it logs statistics on hotspots that can be displayed on great looking heat maps helping you to analise the usage of your site. Previously this sort of testing and monitoring would consume large resources or be sourced out to independent usablilty specialists but now can be implemented very quickly and easily by dropping in some JavaScript into your (x)html.

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Box.net Updates?

By Bish | Published: 16/08/2006 – 17:24 | Posted in News, Quick, Software, Web2.0 | Comments (0)

Box.net has temporarily closed their doors for a feature update and bug fix, much to my inconvenience!! Just kidding, though I will find it helpful if they release some of the features they have talked about here. The ability to edit documents online with the ‘web-based document editor’ will come in very handy indeed…. here’s hoping!

Update: It appears it was a mistake and traffic was routed to a maintenance page by mistake.

Shuttle Slowly Lifting Off!

By Bish | Published: 26/06/2006 – 20:05 | Posted in Design, News, Quick, Software, Web, Wordpress | Comments (1)

Shuttle, the much needed ‘beautification of the WordPress Administration Panel’, is slowly becoming a reality it seems though the most movement appears to be unofficially from Mark over at the Sidejob. As Khaled, one of the original designers, highlights, ‘ WordPress is a community EFFORT.‘ and Mark seems to be doing a great job of implementing it on his own install.
While still a long way from finished, you can keep track on Marks blog of his interpretation of what will become the official dashboard of Wordpress in the future. Kudos for his initiative who knows he may just be involved in implementing this long overdue overhaul of the admin panel.