Archive for July, 2011

Screenfly – test websites on desktop, tablet, mobile and TV resolutions

July 31, 2011 |  by  |  Sites, Tips n Tweaks  |  1 Comment

With the variety of different devices available to surf the web, it isn’t enough to have a website that you can view easily from your desktop. Websites not only need to render perfectly in different browsers but also on desktop PCs, tablets and mobile devices. Screenfly an incredibly simple application, just type in a web address and you’re off and running. It is a free web app that lets you view a website on different screen resolutions; it supports Samsung Galaxy Tab, Apple iPad 1 & 2 and Motorola Xoom tablets among others and Apple iPhone 3 & 4, Google Nexus

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Mobile gaming by the numbers – Infographic

July 30, 2011 |  by  |  Cool Stuff  |  No Comments

In the past video games came on cartridges, you played them on a big fat tube television in your parent’s basement and you told your friends about the level you reached at school the next day. Now you might still be living in your parent’s basement but the future of gaming is solidly mobile. Anywhere, any-time, high quality gaming, that fits nicely in our pocket, is yours to have (at least on non Blackberry devices ~ zing). The mobile entertainment industry was worth $33 billion last year, which is due in part to the success

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Top 50 tracks of all time on ShareMyPlaylists.com – Infographic

July 30, 2011 |  by  |  Cool Stuff  |  No Comments

Share My Playlists holds a library of around 47,000 playlists covering everything from rock ‘n roll to sixties soul, and here’s a look at the top playlisted tracks on Spotify so far

FastCustomer – saves your time never wait on hold again

July 30, 2011 |  by  |  android, Apple, Apps, Downloads, Video  |  No Comments

FastCustomer (mobile app, free, iOS, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad , Android) touts itself as a productivity tool for busy people. The app will call any company’s call center or any department you want and wait on hold for you. The app saves you time and eliminates having to deal with awful elevator music as well as figuring out which department to try and find. Just tap a button telling the app which company you need to reach, then go back to living your life. FastCustomer will ring your phone once a customer service representative is on the line. FastCustomer’s system

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Pretty Loaded – Watch a website gets ‘loaded’ over and over and over

July 30, 2011 |  by  |  Cool Stuff, Sites  |  No Comments

There was time of dial up connections, websites took ages to load. People yearned for the 100% mark. But as the speed of net has increased the beloved preloader has disappeared. Welcome PrettyLoaded created by the Brooklyn-based digital creative agency Big Spaceship, Pretty Loaded which is an archive of preloaders that preload other preloaders. It is a tribute to a vanishing art from amid a constantly changing digital landscape. Nobody likes watching websites load do they? Thankfully, with broadband on tap these days, most websites load pretty quickly. But if you do have a penchant for watching animated ‘Loading’ graphics,

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Donothingfortwominutes challenges you to do nothing for 2 minutes

July 30, 2011 |  by  |  Cool Stuff, Sites  |  No Comments

I don’t know about you, but I get severe anxiety if i’m not online for more than 15 minutes constantly checking my email, Facebook and Twitter so when Donothingfortwominutes.com came onto my radar yesterday, it was a real challenge trying to not touch my keyboard for two minutes and I failed miserably. Do Nothing for 2 Minutes is a website that challenges you to do literally nothing for 2 minutes. If you touch the mouse, or press a key, then you fail and the counter goes back to the start. If you can sit on your hands for 120 seconds, well

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Llama Font transforms your text into a llama-style font – Fun

July 30, 2011 |  by  |  Cool Stuff  |  No Comments

A simple, elegant website created by Avery Oldfield, an art director, and Jack Inscoe, a creative technologist. Llama Font does one thing: it transforms your text into a llama-style font. You can enter any message you like into the input box, and it translates your text in real-time into characters that resemble, well, llamas. It's especially helpful in taking the edge off of bad news.

The mobile worker movement – Infographic

July 29, 2011 |  by  |  Cool Stuff  |  No Comments

Employees want to use their personal mobile devices in the workplace. And many potential new hires make this is a condition of employment¹. The good news? Companies that develop a strategy for supporting consumer smartphones and tablets stand to gain significant benefits. Mobile consumer devices make it easier for employees to choose when and where to get their work done — and those conveniences can lead to higher productivity. In addition, research shows that workers use their smartphones to build customer relationships and stay connected to social media. With the right training, each one of those always-connected workers could become a

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The history of web browsers – Infographic

July 29, 2011 |  by  |  Cool Stuff  |  No Comments

Looking at the browsers in the current browser race it is hard to remember the time when Netscape had over 86% of the market share. Once Microsoft started integrating Internet Explorer with Windows they unsurprisingly took over the market and dominated it for several years. Enjoy this infograhpic and the The History of Web Browsers. via

List of Feature for Windows Phone 7 ‘Mango’

July 29, 2011 |  by  |  Windows, Windows Phone 7  |  No Comments

For those of you who don’t gobble up every bit of Mango news, a quick recap of the bigger new stuff: #1 Multitasking support: Quick app switching, with certain apps (music, GPS) allowed to run in the background #2 Internet Explorer 9 with HTML 5 support #3 Turn-by-turn, Voice Guided Navigation #4 Social Networking:Integrated Twitter support, plus the addition of Facebook check-ins. #5 Dynamic Live Tiles: Tiles for third-party apps on the homescreen can show live updated information #6 Unified Threaded Messages: Support for text/facebook chat/Windows Live Messenger all pulled into one conversation window #7 Unified Inbox: Shows all of your email inboxes in one view, with

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