Archive for December, 2009

DigitalOutbox Episode 30 – Tech Review of the Year Part 1 with Chris, Henry, Ian and Shakeel
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DigitalOutbox Episode 29 – Snow and Swine Flu – must be winter!
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browsershots.org

In: Picks

21 Dec 2009

We’ve taken a look at cross browser testing before on DigitalOutbox and it’s an important part of my day-job to ensure that websites are accessible across the maximum number of browser and operating systems possible. There are some very useful tools out there for this and http://www.browsershots.org definitely has its place on this list.

colorschemedesigner.com

In: Picks

16 Dec 2009

If you’re ever in a quandary over a colour scheme for a new website design, user interface or, for that matter, any design project then this is the pick for you. colorschemedesigner.com is a tool that enables even the most colour inept of us to generate a design palate that works.

Machinarium

In: Picks| games

14 Dec 2009

A while back I chose Machinarium as my Pick of the week. A pick that was put my way by our exalted intro music guru, Paul. Machinarium is a good old fashioned point and click adventure. The time-old story of boy robot tragically split from girl robot by nasty police robots and the quest to be re-united. So why is this game worthy of pick status? Quite simply because it’s gorgeous, exceptionally well realised and just plain cute and funny.

DigitalOutbox Episode 28 – Join Chris, Ian and Shakeel as they discuss Google, JooJoo, Boxee and Tweeting during sex.
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Google Public DNS

In: Technology

7 Dec 2009

Google made a big splash last week when it announced Google Public DNS. By changing your DNS settings on your Mac, PC or router you can take advantage of Google’s DNS service and speed up your internet experience. That’s the theory but does it work? First off, what is DNS?
DNS takes the meaningful domain names [...]


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