London Blackout: Remember remember the 4th of November
Let’s blackout London from 4.30pm to 7.30pm on 4th November. A great idea to commemorate Guy Fawkes (and make a point about climate change).
Firefox 2 is out too
A bit late, but to balance out the IE7 post from a few days ago – if you can (your office allows it), it would probably still be best to go with the latest version of Firefox.
A lovely use of Flash
Whilst researching evening activities for an upcoming birthday we came across this fabulous site for a private room karaoke bar. Although the over-use of Flash on the web is often and quite correctly criticised, the use of it on this site – coupled with interesting sound effects and bright, vibrant colours – makes for an entertaining and visually satisfying experience. Check it out at www.luckyvoice.co.uk.
IE7 for the PC is out
If you use Internet Explorer on the PC, please download version 7 as soon as possible. Not only should the general web browsing experience be better and safer for you, it will also make web developer’s lives much easier.
iPod is your friend
Apple have set up the new iPod nano with pages on Myspace. You too can now count the pink nano as your friend. The pages, inevitably as Apple are involved, are much better looking than the usual Myspace effort. It would be interesting if Apple got a special deal to code the page as they wish. Alternatively, a very smart web designer managed to hack the code to make it look good – which would be impressive if the case. Myspace code is well-known to be painful to contort into attractive shapes.
UX Magazine
A new online user-experience design magazine. It looks nice, has interesting content and has some very fine contributors… but it made my web browser crash. Not such a great user experience. Worth a look though.
Maps
We love maps, and these are some beautiful ones at Subtopia (via 3QuarksDaily).
Unlimited Spurt goes live
Take a look at the Unlimited Spurt website we built, a satirical website aimed at the worst excesses of the aviation industry, backed-up by a national UK newspaper campaign. Working with Provokateur, the campaign is being supported by Greenpeace, Airportwatch and EnoughsEnough.org.
Update: Take a look at the Daily Mirror article, an article in The Times, the Digg article and the comments on YouTube.
8 October, 2006