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IE9 to Support CSS3

For those of you who don’t know, CSS3 has been in development for some time and browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, and Safari have kept at the cutting edge of this technology for years. However Internet Explorer has refused to include any CSS3 compatibility in it’s last two releases,  much to the annoyance of the thousands of web developers who love to use the gradients and radial curves which CSS3 allows.

The Good news is that IE9 has finally been released as a BETA version, and it not only supports CSS3, but it has also had vast improvements made… Continue Reading»

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My Top Five Free Three Column Blogger Templates

Blogging, once relatively unknown has recently taken the world by storm, people from countries around the globe have begun to release blogs on the internet, be they personal or for profit.

Hell, lets face it, this website is a blog, most of my other websites are blogs and a lot of people I know have a blog of one sort or another. But then it comes to customising your blog, how do you make it stand apart from the others and how so you make your blog look better than just the bog standard.

The answer is quite simply blogger templates… Continue Reading»

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Metaversum – Twinity

Virtual worlds are nothing new, from world of warcraft to second life our virtual online escapes vary from the fantasy to the social.

Now however Metaversum have begun to trial the virtual reality Twinity, a bridge between the real and the virtual by allowing you to visit real world locations walk the streets of the cities and see some of the worlds most famous landmarks.

It is true that this will never replace the real experience of visiting a city, but I can see a billion uses of Metaversum’s Twinity.  Finding hotels you would like to visit, checking out monument locations, seeing… Continue Reading»

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My Top Blogger Templates

For those of you who have started their own blog on Blogger before I am sure you are aware how bland and boring their default templates are.  For this reason I have started collecting my favorite templates from across the internet into one comprehensive website, Free and Easy Blogger Templates.  On this website I have compiled a collection of my favorite free blogger templates for my readers to use on any blog they decide to create!

So if you are starting up your own blog on Blogger take a look… Continue Reading»

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Phorm – Good or Bad?

Phorm, for those of you who don’t know, is the logging of personal information to provide targetted adverts to the user.  In recent years this has been hotly debated across the EU as to wether or not it is in fact legal.

Many people do not like to have their search information recorded, but lets face it, it’s not just the internet that does this.  Your local supermarket, be it Tescos or Walmart will be recording what you buy and when you buy it so it can send out advertising to you on the right day about the right products.

Personally I… Continue Reading»

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The Digg Effect – Apologies for Site Downtime

To all my loal reader (s) I would like to apologise for the recent downtime on this site, it seems Servage are not as Digg-Proof as I currently thought as I found a warning and a site suspended email in my inbox when I returned from work a couple of days ago.

Yes it seems I was hit by the Digg Effect -  Although in this case at the instigation of Slashdot.

It seems my Article on Google Chrome was quite popular.

In the matter of 10 minutes my site was hit by 30,000 unique visitors and suspended by servage, after that in… Continue Reading»

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Google Chrome Review – Why I Love and Hate Google Chrome

Googel ChromeGoogle Chrome is Googles second foray into the world of Internet browsing software.

Google Chrome itself was released yesterday and is available to download at http://www.google.com/chrome for free.

The best thing about Google Chrome is undoubtedly its new Back End, unlike nearly all other internet browsers Chrome has the unique feature of running each tab and window with its own process, this has several significant benefits.

  • Memory Usage
  • Browsing Speed
  • Crash Protection (Not Recovery)
  • Visual Management
  • Security
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