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
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
I’ve used SmartFTP for a good few years now and am very happy with it. It transfers files both up and down from the internet;
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
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
SitePoint have published “The Ultimate SEO Guide” – a comprehensive article covering the fundamentals of search engine optimisation, written by Shirley Kaiser. The guide includes
Yahoo! have launched a radical overhaul of their site this week. The emphasis seems to be on usability and speed of navigation: the homepage still
The Omni Group, creators of the popular graphing and charting application OmniGraffle, will release a public beta of their new project management tool OmniPlan on
The popular SitePoint author Matt Mickiewicz has interviewed Jakob Nielsen, the usability evangelist (or usability fetishist, depending upon your perspective), on AJAX (deemed “irrelevant”), contextual
This website demonstrates the features of the KIA Rio using an innovative, 3D rollercoaster ride. Featuring lots of pre-rendered Flash animation and bold, primary colours,
The results of a survey conducted by Click Forensics suggests that more than 1 in 10 clicks on online ads is fraudulent. The latest figure
ClickTale is an intriguing website statistics and monitoring service which creates movies of users’ individual browsing session. Every mouse movement, click and keystroke is recorded
activeCollab is an impressive open source clone of Basecamp. As you can see from the screenshot, it looks remarkably like Basecamp, even down to the
The UK website for the PSP game Loco Roco is a real treat, using the open source Flade engine to great effect.
Mochi Media have released MochiBot, an online statistics package for Flash content. Integration with MochiBot is simple: just cut and paste 4 lines of Actionscript
Colin Moock has posted a great article on the recent history of Actionscript and related Adobe/Macromedia swf generation tools. Colin discusses the progression from AS2
Senocular.com have posted a new tutorial, the Beginners Guide to Getting Started with AS3 (Without Learning Flex). Surely learning Flex and MXML is an integral