The campaign to rid the world of Internet Explorer 6 (about time too!)

August 15th, 2009 by Tom
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It’s been one of those things over the years, like fuel prices or video refereeing in football. We all moan about it but, in true British spirit, we do nothing about it. The horror show that is the Internet Explorer 6 browser has long been the bane of web developers everywhere but finally there is [...]

Firefox 4.0: Are Mozilla jumping on the bandwagon?

August 5th, 2009 by Tom
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The relentless Mozilla machine recently released some interesting first looks at the next version of their ground-breaking browser - Firefox 4.0.
While Firefox 3.5 is still causing waves in browser innovation circles following it’s release in June and Firefox as a whole reached the one billion (!) download mark last Friday (31st July), the Mozilla team [...]

Lovebox 2009 - The Review

July 21st, 2009 by Tom
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Even before a guitar string had been plucked, cymbal crashed or disc loaded (or should that be MP3?), there was plenty of hubbub surrounding the seventh Lovebox Festival. First there was the news that Mark Ronson would be performing with Duran Duran on the Saturday night and secondly the news that Groove Armada have announced [...]

Playlist: Best of Lovebox 2009

July 21st, 2009 by Tom
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Playlist of the best tunes from the seventh Lovebox music festival hosted by Groove Armada at Victoria Park, London on 18th-19th July 2009.

CushyCMS keeps it simple - an objective review

June 8th, 2009 by Tom
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I’m a BIG fan of Wordpress. I love it’s customisability and ease-of-use from both a developer and content author point of view. But I got to thinking that, as a CMS (content management system) it was maybe overkill for a smaller website which lead me to doing a little research for potential solutions should I [...]

Grooveshark: a challenger to Spotify?

May 12th, 2009 by Tom
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Anyone that has used Spotify will know that it is an incredible application - a liberation of music if you will. It has been launched barely six months but already there seems to be a worthy competitior. It’s called Grooveshark.
There are a number of differences between Spotify and Grooveshark, the first and most obvious being [...]

Playlist: Indie 100

May 5th, 2009 by Tom
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It’s all Indie, it’s 100 minutes of music (or thereabouts) and it’s a devilshly clever use of the famous American car race. Enough said. Enjoy.