If you manage websites you know how bad it feels to have someone tell you a site is not only down but it’s been that way for 2 hours … or days. There are solutions out there to monitor your sites uptime but many of them charge and are at best clunky. I’m going to […]
Category: Technology
Another Touch Screen Phone
The HTC Rhyme just came out for Verizon. It seems to be a good phone and HTC is a good company but honestly who cares? It’s another Android phone with a big hi res touch screen and cameras and an LED light and a cool interface. It has all the features of an iPhone which […]
Programming Languages for the Internet
These aren’t all programming languages and this list doesn’t have every web programming language possible on it but this is generally (in no particular order) what you will encounter in the world of web design, development, programming, or whatever else you want to call making things online. This list is more like what you’d see […]
Google Silently Launches Chromebooks
The google laptop has come to retail. There was a stir a few months ago when google gave a select few chrome OS laptops out to testers. Today I went to read an article on The Register and saw an ad to buy one. It took me to this amazon page. Apparently they are available […]
Analysing Euclideons Graphics Engine
Note: This is an article on 3d graphics technology. I will try to keep it as approachable as possible but it’s not the easiest material in the world. There’s a new graphics company that wants to change the video game industry. Euclideon is an Australian company working on a point cloud based approach to 3d […]
How Much Website do I Need?
The first question is do you need a website? If not do you just want a website? Either way how much can you afford, and how much can your customers actually handle? Finally you need to think about things that aren’t a website at all but they are part of your web presence. If you […]
What’s an app?
The word has become ubiquitous. The iPhone has apps, Android devices have apps, the Chrome browser has apps and now Mac OS has apps too. So what are they? How can they be the same things in all these places? What if you want one of your own? I’ll start by lifting a convenient definition […]