Photoshop .ico plugin

Well finally I have found it. A free plugin that allows you to create ico files directly from photoshop.
Check it out over at : http://www.telegraphics.com.au/svn/icoformat/trunk/dist/README.html 

Jobs.ie Hacked

It happens all the time, but whenever it does it makes you wonder what has really been taken. The great thing is that Jobs.ie did face up to the fact and were good enough to tell people like myself, that our information was stolen. Communication in all emergencies or critical breaches of online systems [...]

Do you really care about being tracked?

Begging the question, how much do you care when people actually track you without you knowing. A NY Assemblyman is pushing for a law to use personal information about consumers for advertising without their consent.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/business/media/20adco.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
DO you really care if someone tracks you. Is it not better to get targeted ads you might want compared [...]

IE6 Duplicating content

Well - shouldn’t write about ie6 bugs anymore but thought was worth a mention to the kids over at http://www.positioniseverything.net. Once again they have provided the only real working solution for the ie6 only bug of randomly copying content elsewhere and writing it out on the page even though it does not show up in [...]

Speed matters.. Now google is forcing people to care

Google will begin penalizing advertisers whose landing pages take a long time to load, reports CNET. A post on its AdWords Blog reports Google will start looking at the length of time it takes for a landing page to load.
Loading speed will contribute to an advertiser’s ultimate ad position and bid price on the Adwords [...]

Firefox javascript bug for floats

Just a quick not to let anyone tearing their hair out, that there is a bug with firefox and how it handles the re-assignment of elements with specific floats. Firefox seems to lag by a couple of seconds behind IE and other browsers.
This bug was found with a layout where I had to expand one [...]

Social Search is the future - well for 2008 anyway

A couple of articles around Google’s efforts at social search.
First, a Q/A from VentureBeat with Marissa Mayer where she expands on where Google is going with social search…
http://venturebeat.com/2008/01/31/googles-marissa-mayer-social-search-is-the-future/
Secondly, article from TechCrunch on Google’s new Social Graph API, where they are allowing developers to grab social graph data on people and their friends to tie into 3rd [...]