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Entries from June 2008

Good Browsers Take The Next Step

June 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

It has been a big week for web browsers with 2 of the most standards friendly and useable ones releasing new versions.

Both Firefox 3 and Opera 9.5 are in general release this week after many months of development and beta testing.  Both have outstanding features that will suit all levels of web browsing.  The [...]

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Tags: Cool Applications

TiVO Coming to Australia

June 24th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Announced in a Sydney Morning Herald article this morning -
Seven’s long-awaited TiVo digital television recorder will go on sale in Australia next month, priced at $700.
The TiVo digital recorder has been a HUGE hit in the USA and I expect that the same will be the case here. The difference in Australia is that [...]

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Tags: Technology Toolkit

Australian Web Applications Get Their Own Top 100

June 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

You may have seen lists of cool, new, or popular web applications that have been developed in the USA, Europe or Asia but now we have a list of the Top 100 Australian Web Applications (well at least in the eyes of the publishers of BRW anyway).
I don’t necessarily agree with the position on the [...]

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Tags: Cool Applications

How to Confuse Your Website Readers with Underlines

June 13th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Is your website a came of “which link is a real link?” Do readers try to click on what they think is a link only to find that it is actually just underlined text?
If so PLEASE go and fix it now!
Over the past few weeks I have been coming across many sites that have [...]

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Tags: Tips & Techniques