You may have noticed on TV and in the press over the last few months, adverts from Internet service provider 1&1 offering new web domain extensions like .ltd, .london, .wales, .shop etc. These are actually called "Generic Top Level Domain"…
Not that long ago, one of the biggest challenges to the web industry was browser compatibility. Most of the mainstream browsers (except Internet Explorer) pretty much adhered to the industry standards so web designs displayed very similarly generally (e.g. in…
I recently attended a networking meeting in Fareham with a group called Business Builders where their guest speaker was Allan Beaton who is a "social media scientist" and an expert on an application called Hootsuite. For those of you who…
Recently, I was working on a design where I needed to match the exact font from the logo. I managed to identify the name of the font used in the image and then set to, as I have done many…
Cold calling tech-support scams have been around for quite a while now. Reports indicate that these people, generally based in India, have extorted millions of pounds out of English speaking victims in the UK, Canada, the US and other countries…
As expected, there continues to be quite a lot of press on this topic as we get nearer to the final deadline for compliance on the 26th of May. In an interview with Computer World UK magazine last week, a…
A recent study has shown that more than 25% of passwords used are made up of 6 characters or less which is totally inadequate to provide protection. Ref: Web User magazine Believe it or not, the study showed…