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DuckDuckGo, a new hope for searching, maybe?

June 10, 2010 – 8:36 pm

While checking my Twitter feed I came across a post from Smashing Magazine that said ‘DuckDuckGo: a nice new search engine, useful for programmers and designers’, so I checked it out, ran a few searches and was pleasantly surprised with the results, it was that good I may consider making it my search engine of [...]

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Windows finally lets you choose your browser

February 28, 2010 – 10:33 pm

The European Competition Commission have forced Microsoft to offer alternative web browsers with their operating systems, which will be available from March 2010 in Europe. This will obviously confuse some of the less techy users but it may also achieve something I think we all want – the accelerated demise of Internet Explorer 6!

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Just because things can animate does it mean they should!

November 14, 2009 – 7:17 pm

Clunky and badly designed animation has flooded the web for as long as I can remember.  In the early days this phenomenon belonged to the animated gif files blinking furiously at you in an erratic attempt to attract your attention, while in comparison today’s web is littered with a mixture of gif, javascript and now flash animation. So this [...]

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The dark side and Google

August 29, 2009 – 10:04 pm

In the last ten years Google has moved from humble search engine to dominant web superpower and with no sign of easing up, but are they running the risk of becoming the new Microsoft which for the early part of this decade were hated.  Surely Google can’t move to the dark side and become the new [...]

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Are torrents really killing the music business?

April 18, 2009 – 10:10 pm

The recent court verdict regarding Pirate Bay makes me wonder if it will make any difference to the download world, this also begs a new question, whether illegal file downloads are actually damaging to the music industry like the major labels would have you believe.

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