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Archive for December 2011
How-to: Business Models of the Free Website Builders
There’s a plethora of free website build and hosting services out there; Weebly, Yola, WebNode, Jimdo to name but a few of them. It’s a gold rush akin to the free email boom a while back, or to the Cloud Storage explosion running alongside. The question, if these services are free, is who is paying? … Continue reading
Review: Sherlock Holmes – Game of Shadows
Guy Ritchie continues his transformation of the Victorian detective into a modern action hero. If you missed the previous installment, this one comes as even more of a shock as Ritchie gets the big budget to blow stuff up and whizz cameras around at breakneck speed, as Robert Downey Jr. pre-analyses his many fights in … Continue reading
How-to: The Duplicate Content Myth
I came across a post earlier in the year by Panos over on WordPress Blogger Tips exploding the myth about duplicate content, with particular reference to WordPress.com serviced sites. “Duplicate content means substantive blocks of material that exist more than once in the web – in other words, substantive blocks of material that can … Continue reading
Review: Masdar City Personal Rapid Transit
Masdar City is an eco-city of the future being built outside of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Masdar is a small city of 6 square kilometers designed to house 40,000 people, 1500 businesses and around 50,000 commuters. Masdar’s solar farm is already the largest in the Middle East. The whole city was intended … Continue reading
Review: Hugo
3-D, family-friendly kids’ adventure with a melancholy tone. It’s brilliant, but who is the intended audience? Expanded from Brian Selznick’s illustrated children’s book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Martin Scorcese pulls out an extraordinary diversion from his usual work, not seen since his 19th-century costume drama, The Age of Innocence. Only this time, it’s a … Continue reading
How-to: Windows Media Player 11 without WGA
First, a disclaimer: the process described is for trouble-shooting purposes only. You should contact Microsoft to give them well-deserved grief if legitimately-licensed software does not properly validate. For the first time in two years, I’ve had to rebuild my Windows XP machine (now virtualised) in order to keep running a couple of items of legacy … Continue reading
Full Circle Magazine Issue 56 Out Now
Full Circle Magazine Issue #56 available now from the main site! This month: Command and Conquer. How-To : Make 11.10 Look ‘Classic’, LibreOffice – Part 10, Backup Strategy – Part 4, Persistent USB Stick, and Connect To IRC. Linux Lab – Xbox Media Centre. Review – Puppy Linux. I Think – Would you attend a … Continue reading
News
• Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works • Apple announces iBooks 2, iBooks Author to “reinvent textbooks” • Sopa and Pipa protests not over, says Wikipedia • China Has 500 Million Web Users, Half of Them Are Microbloggers • Dustin Kirkland: Video Explanation of ACTA / SOPA • Irony Alert: Google ‘Good … Continue reading
How-to: Include a Twitter Widget on Your Web Site
“Widgets let you display Twitter updates on your website or social network page. Our widgets are compatible with any website and most social networks. Simply choose the one that matches where you would like to include it.” Most hosted sites and web development platforms now support Widgets for all manner of third-party sites, services and … Continue reading
Festive Cheer and Best Wishes
…from all at Everything Express. It’s been a busy year, posting random stuff and we’ve enjoyed getting your comments. Best wishes to all and hope you’ll be back with us in 2012. The Editors Image: Enchanted Christmas 2008, Westonbirt Arboretum, Tetbury – geograph.org.uk. Brian Robert Marshall [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Review: Whatever happened to Web Slices?
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and now 10, come with a feature called Web Slices: “A Web Slice is a specific portion of a web-page that you can subscribe to, and which enables you to see when updated content – such as the current temperature, or a changing auction price – is available from … Continue reading
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