Archive for October, 2008

Watercolour Desktop Background

by admin ~ 21st October, 2008

Haven’t done one of these for a while, so I thought I’d try out a few Photoshop things and create myself a nice new desktop, which I’ll ditch in a week and go back to grey.

Download the big one (1920 x 1200)
Download the small one (1024 x 768)

Twenty3

by admin ~ 20th October, 2008

It’s a funny old number:
23 Fascinating facts about 23
Mostly creepy in it’s references ….23 skidoo!

Another IE 6 rant

by admin ~ 8th October, 2008

I hate Internet Exploprer 6 (I used it’s full name, rather than the net worthy IE6, because it’s in trouble).
Internet Explorer 6 is an irritating decrepit old parrot, who pipes up and makes my work the balancing act it shouldn’t need to be. If you’re reading this and you’re not a web designer or ...

Floating iPod Nano advertising on Last FM

by admin ~ 7th October, 2008

I listen to last.fm sometimes when I work. I like the radio feature, it keeps me from searching out other distractions. While visiting the site a great example of using transparency in a flash banner add popped up and distracted me.
Apple do tend to make less annoying advertising and this one in particular ...