Firefox is now the browser of choice for 12% of Britons, up from 1% in 2004. The figures, released by internet research company Nielsen//NetRatings, also
Feeling short on festive spirit? Why not play our new viral game Santa Sorter at santasorter.com!
Adobe have released a beta version of Photoshop CS3. Available as a universal binary, this is sure to come as good news to users of
Include Digital, in collaboration with design agency Mook, have recently completed work on a CD-Rom for The Sunday Times. Distributed with the newspaper on Sunday
Netimperative has published an article listing the top 20 fastest growing UK websites. Retail sites represent nearly half of the top 20, demonstrating the eagerness
Every year since 1952, the The New York Times’ Book Review has asked a panel of judges to make a selection from among the several
Junk email tracking and intelligence company Spamhaus have released their “Top 10 Most Wanted” list. Responsible for a staggering 80% of all spam in Europe
The new beta of Skype 3.0 is available for download, boasting Firefox and IE browser extensions for click-to-call SkypeOut functionality. If you’re happy to miss
He-of-many-Riks Lomas has launched Microsummaries.org, an online resource dedicated to the Microsummaries feature in Firefox 2. Microsummaries – next big thing or white elephant? More
Adobe have updated Flash Player 9 to support full-screen playback in both the standalone and browser-based players. Full-screen playback is subject to a number of
An invite to the private beta of Microsoft’s user-generated video site Soapbox arrived in my inbox today. A direct rival to Google’s YouTube, is Soapbox
Google have launched Google Docs, yet another online application. Merging Google Spreadsheets with Docs (originally Writely, purchased by Google earlier this year), the service is
Google seem set to purchase video sharing site YouTube in a staggering $1.6 billion deal, if rumours are to be believed. Google’s own video service
flixn is a new service allowing users to record video directly from a webcam and save it to the web. The process is as simple
Nintendo have confirmed that the forthcoming Wii console will support Flash via its embedded Opera Browser. There’s no news yet on which version of the
This site features a beautiful selection of sculptures made from single sheets of A4 paper.
We’re currently working on a new web presence for Heavenly, scheduled for launch in October.
Microsoft have released the beta version of Windows Live Writer, a desktop application for composing blog entries. The software features WYSIWYG authoring, photo publishing, map
Go2Web is an interactive, searchable directory of Web 2.0 websites. All the usual suspects are there (YouTube, Flickr, last.fm etc.), but the site is well
Online retailer Amazon has launched Amazon Unbox, a service allowing users to purchase and download movies and video content. The service is only compatible with
Google have launched Google Image Labeler, a “game” created to help improve the quality of search results returned by Google Images. It’s an intriguing concept:
Emmy Huang, the Flash Player Product Manager at Adobe, has posted an article on her blog discussing the recently released penetration figures for Flash Player
Time Magazine have unveiled their top 50 websites for 2006. A number of predictable favourites such as YouTube, MySpace and Digg make the cut; lesser-known
The evergreen Helvetica is celebrated in a new documentary film by Gary Hutswit, scheduled for release in 2007, the 50th anniversary year of the typeface.
Snipplr is a public source code repository that allows users to post and share classes, functions and code fragments. The site offers downloadable code packages
From its humble beginnings as FutureSplash, Flash has grown into the leading platform for delivery of multimedia on the web. Adobe have posted a selection
Goggles is a fun flight simulator game that uses graphical data from Google Maps. A great idea from Mark Caswell-Daniels.
O’Reilly Radar has posted a feature on programming language trends based on sales of computer books (figures taken from 70% of US bookstores, including Amazon,
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox has a new article that answers that old question “what screen resolution should I design for?” The headline, one-sentence answer is: “Optimise
Adobe have revealed that a new version of Director will be released in the first half of 2007. No new features have been confirmed, which