This is just so awesome it defies belief, some guy called CupBoy has managed to create world 1-1 of the original super mario brothers in Javascript. If that wasnt impressive enough he has also managed to squeeze it all down into an ity bity 14kb javascript file. The sprites are stored in custom encoded strings […]
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Great new IE testing browser
I am not gonna make a massive post about this, but i came across this browser this morning which looks pretty cool. Basically some guy over at My DebugBar has created a little browser which allows you to switch rendering engines between all versions of IE from 5.5 up to IE8 Beta. I am fully […]
Bad Request on London Elects Website
It’s election time to find a new mayor for London soon, and what better way to get people to vote than by providing all the information about if you are eligible, how to register, or where you can vote by commissioning a nice shiny website that is available in nearly every language imaginable? The answers […]
Microsoft to web developer world – “We finally listened”
On what marks a surely glorious day in the web developer world, Microsoft have done a complete U-Turn on their decision to force developers to use tags which make IE8 render in standards mode. Apparently the browser will now render in standards mode via default. Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of Internet Explorer stated… “We’ve decided […]
Facebook finally lets users block application requests
I am not sure how long Facebook have been doing this but today i finally realised that Facebook are letting users permanently block application requests from those damn annoying applications such as owned or lil green patch. This is especially welcome to me as having the name Dean Chew means that i frequently appear at […]
Yahoo taking ages to change domain listing in SERPS
Ahhh, good old Yahoo, first they are getting bought out by the Microsoft ogre, then they are not, maybe thats why it is taking them so damn long to change a domain name in the SERPS listing even though i placed a 301 redirect on it about 3 months ago. I have a fashion website […]
Facebook hacked? Some application’s can post on users walls
I was hanging around on Facebook over the weekend when i noticed a couple of strange wall posts from two of my friends. Both of them included url’s to “ringers” which in English means ring tones. I was quite fascinated by this because i have been playing with FB apps for a while and have […]
Very clever porn link building and social media explotation
The porn industry has always been pretty clever when it comes to creating links and marketing their sites. Obviously it is such a competitive vertical that they are always trying to get one up on each other (No pun intended). Unlike the rest of the SEO world that can game sites like digg.com and reddit.com […]
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 8 Beta
I am rather suprised at how quickly MS have managed to get IE8 beta out the door, but i received news today that it is available to download now. I am currently on my MacBook so can’t test the beta just yet, but intend to get home this evening and give it a whirl. You […]
Google wants you to share your Analytics data
So I logged into Google Analytics this morning to check on some of my sites and i was greeted by a little message asking me if i wanted to share my Analytics data between Adsense, Ad Words and Analytics. I thought great, this will allow me to gain much more information when doing other campaigns. […]