March 12th, 2010 10:15am
mike s
After seriously miffing off old school bloggers with their troublesome decision to withdraw all FTP support, Blogger are looking to sweeten the pill with their new Blogger Template Designer tool.
The Template Designer has turned up in their ‘Blogger in Draft‘ experimental playground, and promises to “go beyond static templates and reinvent the whole process of designing your blog.”
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We’re mighty big fans of Google Reader at Wirefresh – it’s been our de facto RSS reader for years – but it can take a little while to find out and sort your feeds.
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March 11th, 2010 9:30am
mike s
Microsoft’s onslaught to persuade us Brits to try out a different flavour of search to Google has kicked off, with the first TV commercial for Bing hitting goggleboxes across Blighty.
The advert – the first of the three – can be seen across a slew of commercial channels such as ITV, Channel 4, Five, Sky Media plus IDS digital channels including Bravo, Dave, GOLD, Living TV and Good Food.
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March 10th, 2010 4:25pm
mike s
Mad-for-it walking folks Walkit.com have added a useful and unique feature to their online route mapping service – circular walks.
The idea is both simple and brilliant: if you fancy a short lunchtime stroll or a calorie busting urban trek, simply type in your chosen location, input your walking speed and you can quickly plan a circular walk from 15 minutes up to 4 hours.
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Easy-peasy blogging platform Tumblr has notched up a noticeable milestone, with the site receiving no less then one billion page views in February, 2010.
They were so chuffed with their achievement that they knocked out a natty info-graphic to help spread the news.
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Although we’re sure an awful lot of these were of the inane “I’m going to the shops for some fags” variety, there’s no denying that Twitter’s total of over 10 billion tweets is one hell of an impressive figure.
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March 3rd, 2010 11:16am
mike s
Facebook has just announced that it’s rolling out an increase in the maximum image sizes allowed for photo updates.
Promised back at the end of January, the increase brushes aside the previous image limitation of 604 pixels and elevates it to the heady heights of 720 pixels.
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Google has just announced that it has opened up its big bag of money and acquired the cloud-based photo editing service, Picnik.
The website lets you crop, touch-up and add various effects to your photos from within your web browser.
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It’s more or less completely pointless, but if you’d like to rearrange the London skyline into a futuristic vista stuffed full of colossal skyscrapers, then architectural illustrators Hayes Davidson have got just the thing for you.
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February 25th, 2010 10:49am
mike s
Google has had a tidy up in its GMail Labs inventory, promoting some experimental features to full products while telling others they’re simply not good enough.
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February 24th, 2010 5:52pm
mike s
Transport for London have released their all-new interactive bus map, and we’re feeling the love.
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February 22nd, 2010 12:28pm
mike s
Security bods Sophos are warning that what’s been called the ‘LOL’ phishing attack is continuing to fester on the web, and not just by direct message.
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February 22nd, 2010 9:30am
Lee J.
It’s proved a hit on the iPhone (mainly in the States), and now the doodz at Gowalla are hurling their popular location-based social networking game in the direction of the Android community.
Joining Google Buzz, Foursquare and all the other location based services hustlin’ and a-bustlin’ to grab the biggest slice of this growing, err, pie, Gowalla’s new beta Android-optimised site can be found at m.gowalla.com.
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February 18th, 2010 4:40pm
mike s
Google continues to ramp up the set on its online Google Docs service, with the latest addition being an extended web clipboard floating about in the cloud.
The web clipboard lets you store any text cut or copied ‘in the cloud’ and then paste it into another Google Docs document, with all the original formatting remaining intact.
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February 18th, 2010 11:21am
mike s
A new website called PleaseRobMe.com has been created to warn users about the potential perils of using services like Foursquare, Twitter and GoogleBuzz, which let users share their location online and ‘check in’ to places.
By aggregating all those publicly announced check-ins, the site serves up a handy list of people who have left their home and checked in elsewhere, ramming home the point that such information may prove invaluable to burglars.
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