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Archive for March, 2008

The fat lady has sung

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

The Web Standards Project is an organisation which created the ACID tests as a benchmark for browser conformance and have recently released ACID3 which is designed to take into account modern “2.0″ style sites as well.
The test sends data to the browser which does it’s best to render it correctly, it is then scored depending [...]

Virtual strikes on Second Life and awareness raising blogs!

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

No longer forced into the cold for hours on end to get their point across, in September last year strikers at IBM in Italy took to the virtual streets to protest at their unfair pay settlement. An article in this week’s economist describes how 2,000 employees logged on to stage their virtual protest. [...]

Animation Vs Animator

Friday, March 14th, 2008

On this website we can see a little Flash battle between the animator and the animation. The clever manipulation of screengrabs will likely draw the appreciative attention of anyone who has ever worked with Flash. Lots of fun and very, very clever.
View Animation Vs Animator

Cite attend Fame 2008

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Cite were pleased to attend De Montfort University’s Fame 2008 exhibition yesterday. This is the third time we have attended and were delighted to be invited to speak to packed lecture hall about careers within the web design industry, both in Leicester and beyond.

rg+p client extranet launched

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

We launched the latest addition to the celebrated rg+p web site this week. The client extranet provides an online facility for all members of an architectural team (both internal and external) to upload project material for review and comment. The system presents an invaluable listing of revisions for drawings, elevations and other information thus ensuring [...]

Clever flash

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

It’s amazing what can be done with flash these days, check out this for example - I’ve no idea who actually made it or their purpose, but you can imagine something like this in years to come, doing much more than looking around.

Grand central vision

Friday, March 7th, 2008

As mentioned a few posts ago Google is keen to expand it’s scope into new markets such as mobile, instant messaging etc. many companies do, but what Google does best is bring it all nicely together in a way that’s actually useful to the consumer.
In the same vein as it’s mobile forays, Google has aquired [...]

I’m ill, I have the Newton Virus (or at least I want it)….

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

The creative minds at Troika have created an amazing workplace distraction, well for the Mac at least. The Newton Virus comes on a cute USB devise and creates a wonderful (not always desired) distraction. The USB devise once inserted automatically downloads itself to the Mac it has been inserted to and waits, the ‘virus’ drops [...]

UN-limited information

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

All large organisations need information to help them make policy and plan for the future, one of the largest of which is the UN.
The United Nations has gathered an incredible amount of data over the years but has recently consolidated it into a public searchable database that’s accessible via a web interface.
The effort aims to [...]