I started using a PC about 20 years ago when I was an executive director at a company that was starting up New Zealand’s first music television channel. As a willing participant I took to it like duck to water. Always having understood the value of computing I was a slow starter due to my [...]

Is this new? Or am I just really unobservant? UPDATE: Yes, I’m really unobservant. It has been in place for ages. It is interesting though, as I obviously always use the built-in search box in the browser. Technorati Tags: google aotearoa

Google are considering if they should look at user feedback into search results. As good as their algorithm is, you will always get irrelevant listings in the search results, and who better to know but a human end user. I think if they can take this data into account, as part of the overall calculation [...]

Here is the situation – you?’ve just purchased an iPhone 3G with the intention to use it on Vodafone NZ on prepay.  Your wallet weights next to nothing now, but excited and aroused by the fact that you are holding an iPhone with 3G,  of course, you ought to try out the much hyped ?"mobile [...]

Here’s something that is kind of useless, but still cool (seems to be a trend?) Searchme.com is a search engine that is still in beta, and calls itself a “Visual Search Engine”. Essentially when you search for something within Searchme it gives you a small screen shot of the actual website, along with using Apples [...]

If the shinyness and world-record-breaking hype of Firefox 3 had you upgrading last week, you will have noticed a few things. One: FF3 is pretty bad ass. Two: Some of your plug-ins are not going to work in FF3, especially if you use some obscure ones. And then there is the old web development mantra [...]

Thanks to @elliotjaystocks for the heads up on Fuzzwich’s upcoming Animator software. It’s looks fantastic – the process lends itself almost entirely to fun – when was the last time anyone said that about Flash? Interesting that as Flash has moved into basically a programming environment a big hole has opened in the market place [...]

We are currently looking for .NET web developers to join the team at our Auckland office. If you are interested or can recommend someone for the following roles, please let us know. We will happily pay $1,000 cash for any successful referrals to both the referrer and the successfully appointed referee. Development Team Leader This [...]

With the Adobe AIR runtime become more popular for porting web apps to the desktop, freshAIRapps.com have released a great list of some of the best Adobe AIR apps available at the moment. Some of the more noteable ones include the desktop version of Google Analytics Reporting Suite and the desktop version of Google Reader.

The controversy regarding Tag Clouds is on-going. Some in our office think they are a great element that measures the pulse of the site its on. Other think they were and are passée and about as useful as blinking web text. Whatever your inclination towards tag clouds, I think Brand Tags will have you pleasantly [...]