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Crimes against design – part three: Bad spelling, grammar & other annoyances

This is the third and final part of crimes against design. I hope you have learned something. If you commit any one or more of these crimes then either do something about it or save yourself some money and do everyone else a favour by removing your website/blog/monstrosity from the internet. Auto playing audio/video Don’t [...]

Crimes against design – part two: Advertising

Love it or hate it, advertising greases the wheels of some of the biggest web sites about. If it weren’t for advertising then some of your favourite web sites may not even exist. I don’t mind advertising as long as it’s not obtrusive.

Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors

Not many people understand that the internet is real, that it is tangible, that you can touch and feel it. Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors gives us a better idea of what the internet looks like, or at least what a part of it looks like. Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors from Ben [...]

Top 10 free indie games

Indie games have a habit of being wonderfully great, probably because indie developers are so passionate about what they do. They do it for the love of games and gaming, they do it for the love of designing, coding, creating, not for sales and money. Although I’m sure they like the money too. Apparently some [...]

Global Agenda: Recursive Colony Expansion

This is what happens if you take the Unreal engine throw in some Sci-Fi mix it with a third-person shooter perspective, sprinkle liberally with RPG elements and make it a free MMO. Global Agenda is a sci-fi, third-person class-based shooter with guns & jetpacks! What’s not to like about that? See tohose robots in the [...]

Five free alternatives to Windows Explorer

Ever been frustrated by Windows Explorers limited capability while cleaning up your HDD, moving files, cleaning up, doing general house work and maintenance? Maybe it’s time to ditch Windows Explorer for a more capable file manager. Bill Detwiler has you covered with a quick look at five free file managers.

A look at some crazy SSD tech

Rewind to 2006 a common year that started on a Sunday in the Gregorian calendar. It was the 2006th year of the Common Era or Anno Domini designation, the 6th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century, and the 7th of the 2000s decade. In 2006 the Winter Olympics were held in [...]

Spelunky

It’s not often, in fact it’s rare, that I get addicted to a game. Most games I play aren’t awesome enough for me to get addicted to, a lot of the time I get bored of a game and never finish it or I play it, enjoy it and finish it then never play it [...]

Crimes against design – part one: Colour & typography

I was going to write an article about every single design crime that I have seen committed that makes for a rancid website. Then I realised the article was going to be epicly long as in novel length so I have decided to break it down into parts. The design and look of your blog [...]

STOP! Trivia time! Computer bugs

Bugs, those annoying little errors, flaws, mistakes, failures, or faults in a piece of software, hardware or a system. Microsoft calls them an “undocumented feature” (“It’s not a bug; it’s an undocumented feature!”), when planned updates go pear shaped it’s called an “update bug”, the release notes for the new version of a program usually [...]

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