Monthly Archives: August 2006

A recent newsletter from E-consultancy has an interesting interview with Trevor Ginn, head of consulting for the newly formed eBay service provider Auctioning4u. Auctioning4u has been set up to help those running e-Bay business accounts increase their sales and reduce time spent on the lengthy sales process. Typical clients include retailers wanting to dispose of [...]

Google CEO, Dr. Eric Schmidt, has joined Apple’s board of directors.  The announcement was made yesterday just after Schmidt was voted onto the board. “Apple is one of the companies in the world that I most admire,” said Eric Schmidt. “I’m really looking forward to working with Steve and Apple’s board to help with all [...]

Google Book Search is an excellent online research tool that allows you to search the contents of books.  Upto now you have been able to read the pages of the scanned texts online but now google has gone one step further – PDF downloads. Only titles which are copyright free (public domain) are available so [...]

If you’re interested in/work with design or typography this video will be both interesting and inspirational if you have a spare 5. Paula Scher is one of the most successful and influential Typographer/Graphic Designers of the last few decades. It got me thinking about how important the rationale behind a design route is and how [...]

A large chunk of what we do here at theEscape is website design.  The Web Team design and build the arcitecture of the site and the Design Studio design the look and feel – In essence designing the Graphical User Interface for the code of the website. Not really sure why but the other day [...]

Do you ever read an email or text message filled with emoticons and wonder what on earth they all mean?  We’ll wonder no more!  Ask.com have added emoticon definitions to their search results, so next time you get one you don’t know simply head on off to Ask and type it into the search box.  [...]

This 220 foot wide Firefox shaped crop circle was discovered in a wheat field near Amity, Oregon earlier this month. Whether it was done as a publicity stunt, some fans playing a prank or even a message from ET, it really doesn’t matter. Which ever way you slice it this has to be one of [...]

So, I checked my RSS feeds this morning and TechCrunch pointed me to Topix.net – another news site I thought. So I did the usual and typed in Basingstoke for search and a whole load of news articles came up. I have a little side hobby and was amazed to see some of the same [...]

A report from IT Week (via E-consultancy) Nearly three-quarters of people are avoiding the mobile internet because of high costs and poor experiences of the technology, according to research published today. The findings highlight the need for firms to develop mobile-compatible content, said experts. In a survey of 1,500 UK consumers by web hosting firm [...]

Turns out I don’t get anywhere near it. Silly me, should have read the small print about sharing it with half of Basingstoke. Nice little tool here for checking out how quick your connection is. It’s also worth bearing this ‘speed issue’ in mind if you are creating larger file sizes on your pages based [...]