Whatever it is you need, the guys and gals over at creative commons have got it for you to use. Basically Creative Commons ” provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from ‘All Rights Reserved’ to ‘Some Rights Reserved.’”.
Best thing I saw over there was this awesome list of repositories for gleaning : http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Curators
Do you know any other good sources of copyright free creative?
Filed under: Free Image Galleries on August 15th, 2008 | No Comments »
A new product has just been launced over at YouTXT - its called FlightCHECK.
Based on the same simple principles of providing useful information quickly and easily through TXT, FlightCHECK is an anytime, anywhere flight checking tool. Giving realtime access to any flight arriving or departing NZ. It can be accessed over at http://flightcheck.co.nz or by SMS/TXT.
The coverage is pretty amazing and you can check any flight nationally or internationally by TXT by simply sending the tail number ie NZ1 to 8808. Within seconds you will get back a message telling you whether the flight is delayed, on-time or canceled.
This is a brilliant new service that is the first in New Zealand to cover every flight, and every airport. As a product it is available to the public, and also available for licence to any travel or airline industry organisations that want to personalise and market to their own customer base.
What do you think of this new service? Any ideas to make it better or more useful?
Filed under: General News on August 13th, 2008 | No Comments »
When an updat is rolled out across a system or across a site there is an expected down time. However when we are dealing with the world wide web there is no 3am at the same time everywhere - so what are you options? Read more »
Filed under: General News, UX & Usability on July 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
Just a quick note to let you all know there is a new IE testing tool out there over at : http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage This is another option instead of installing the MultipleIE standalone versions. Hopefully it will be out of beta soon, and also look at supporting other browsers too. It would be a perfect world to have one tool to test all browsers perfectly, instead of loading up different instances all the time. Well done to the team at DebugBar.Have you used this tool? What are your thoughts?
Filed under: General News on June 9th, 2008 | No Comments »
When a major player doesn’t support major browsers what does one think, other head in the sand. Hotmail has been slow loading and throwing un-responsive javascript errors for a long time now in Firefox on a PC using winxp and now it just doesnt load at all. Read more »
Filed under: Javascirpt / DHTML, UX & Usability on June 9th, 2008 | No Comments »
Just took a look at the BBC website ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/ ) and was pleasantly surprised! Personalised information, with docking of news snippets, and a host of other features. If you haven’t checked it out yet take a gander. It is definately the top of its field in terms of user personalisation, beautiful layout, and ease of access to information.
Filed under: Design Sites on June 6th, 2008 | No Comments »
There are numourous ways and Javascripts out there to sort out a scrolling panel. Although when it comes to getting one that works on a Safari Browser in the iPhone when a double finger action is used to initiate the scroll action item - well then it is a bit tougher. Iframes, JS heavy scrolling divs etc are all options out there, but not really what you want to employ. Namely they are heavy and they dont work too well.
Good news is the great people over at Dream-in-Code provided this simple snippet that works a treat : http://www.dreamincode.net/code/snippet132.htm
Just add it to your page, open it on the iPhone browser then put two fingers over the content area and drag down. Presto : light-weight user scrolling on the iPhone. Add in some AJAX for updating mapping, or even just use it to scroll contained content areas easily.
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Filed under: CSS, General News on May 21st, 2008 | No Comments »