Archives for “Technology & Web”
One of the phenomenons of the last twelve months on the Interwebs has been the craze of people ‘rick rolling’ one another, that is, to trick one or more people into listening to or viewing Rick Astley’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ hit from the eighties.
I don’t play video games anywhere near as much as I used to. Other than Football Manager 2009, I don’t have anything else to play, or really all that much free time to spend playing games. However, it’s nice to have a quick blast of something fun and easy to get into, which has led [...]
Well, this time last week I started an experiment. That experiment was to see if I would really miss Facebook. Would not being on Facebook make a great deal of difference to my life? Would I genuinely miss it? In short, the answer is no. In the last seven days, I’ve neither had any need to go [...]
Over the last few days, I’ve decided that I’m going to move away from YouTube for the actual hosting of any videos I produce. The reason? Vimeo. In all fairness, I’ve been using both video hosting services for some time now; YouTube a little longer than Vimeo. The thing is, YouTube just doesn’t inspire me [...]
Well I finally made the jump that has been inevitable for some time. Ordered the iPhone 3G 8GB on O2 pay monthly at the beginning of the week, took delivery on Thursday and my Apple gadget transformation is now complete. Somewhere in the back of my head I hear Steve Jobs laughing… Anyhoo, I have to [...]
I’m toying around with a few plugins for my Wordpress installation here on Le Blog that could help me notify Facebook each time I post a blog entry. One of them being Wordbook, and this blog post itself is my test run to see how it functions. You see, previously I’ve had a set-up whereby my [...]
I’ve been neglecting Twitter lately, but thanks to the excellent TwitterFox plugin for Firefox (compatible with the latest 3.5 release), I’m tweeting a lot more these last few days. Having a separate application running is a bit of a waste of time for someone who has the aforementioned browser open for the vast majority of [...]
After the last couple of mammoth ‘Web Wednesday posts’, I’m chilling out this week with something a little morbid, but quite funny nonetheless. I’ve just spotted this on Empire Magazine’s Twitter feed. Now, I was brought up from my early teens watching ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’, I soon fell in love with ‘Star Trek: Deep [...]
If you’re at all interested in web technology, and can stand watching a couple of geeks talking for ninety minutes, this video is for you. Looking forward to getting my hands on this! Related Sites: Google Wave
Last night, a friend posted a link on Twitter that will make a lot of web gurus lives much easier. Pixlr is, simply put, a web based image/photo editing application that offers similar functionality to offline applications such as Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro and Gimp. Here is a look at the interface: Pixlr doesn’t have a [...]
In another regular feature I’m going to be serving up each week, I bring you ‘Web Wednesday’, a feature where I pick one or more things that I’ve been exposed to on ‘Teh Intarnets’ and share it with you. You can expect it to be web video, flash games, funny images and anything that I [...]
Yesterday, John over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun posted about a web game that he had been playing, called Sagrario’s Room, an ‘Escape The Room’ style puzzle that I spent the best part of three hours playing yesterday evening, and I have to admit it is one of the best short gaming experiences I’ve had for [...]
One of the things I love about using Digg.com is that you can find some really interesting, funny or useful links. This particular article I’ve decided to share is a worthwhile read for anyone using Facebook; especially if your privacy is important to you. I’m becoming more and more aware of the need to make [...]
I’ve always been a keen video gamer over the years, and although I have a significantly reduced amount of time available to me to relax and have a blast on the laptop (PC/Mac gamers ‘for the win’), I don’t really have a great deal installed on my Macbook Pro other than Far Cry 2, Team [...]