Too Much of a Good Thing

Here’s a great article from Smashing Magazine on “improving customer experience by limiting choice.” It’s an issue I’ve encounter numerous times, when a client thinks they are doing me a favour by giving me an open brief, as in reality there’s no worse type of brief to get! So I’ve often said “Give me the flexibility […]

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Don’t Have Regrets

  If you recognise yourself in this video, change your life! (oh and look out for banana skins) “Never regret… if it’s good, it’s wonderful, if it’s bad, it’s experience” – Victoria Holt “A man is not old until regrets take place of his dreams” – John Barrymore “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed […]

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New Truth

I was having a conversation just now and it reminded me of a sketch from the BBC Three animated series entitled Monkey Dust In this sketch the Advertising Agency Labia, are pitching “New Truth” to a Government Ministry that has to deliver some bad news! “By reclassifying things that aren’t entirely bad as things that […]

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eBooks Are For Weirdos

According to a new survey by Harris Interactive 1 in 6 Americans now use an eReader with 1 in 6 likely to purchase one within the next 6 months. That’s 15%, which is almost double what it was this time last year, 8%. Also eBook readers purchase more books and read on average more than paper […]

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The Cosmonaut is The Write Stuff

I posted about the Scribbly a while ago, but I just stumbled on the Cosmonaut by Studio Neat, the guys that created the Glif, which in case you missed it is a cool iPhone tripod mount and stand, that had a very successful Kickstarter launch. Well it looks like they’ve done it again with another […]

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Don’t Build It and They Will Come, 90k Of Them!

That appears to be Martin Hasek’s philosophy, the creator of Noteslate, and it appears to be working. I posted about the Noteslate back in January, I was sceptical then and unfortunately my scepticism was founded, as this CNN report confirmed shortly afterwards, but that doesn’t appear to have stopped 64,000 people clicking the like button on their homepage, […]

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Freaky!

What were the chances of that happening!! Some would say it’s a sign, “Double Rainbow, what does it all mean?” Others will tell me to do the lottery today, some won’t even notice and will have to have another look at the image above… as for me, oh it’s just coincidence, but freaky nonetheless! (although […]

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Keep Calm and Carry On With no paper

As the saying goes “sh!t happens!” The recent spate of rioting, looting and arson in the UK will cost the taxpayer millions, plus business and household insurance premiums will rise as insurance companies cover their loses. The large businesses will bounce back and continue to operate, but smaller businesses will have a much harder time […]

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iWater

Looks like Apple are about to shake up and dominate another unsuspecting industry with the release of iWater… I guess in this instance the name iH2O wouldn’t work, as that would indicate adding iodine to the mix, not a good idea! Check out Scoopertino for more info you should follow me on Twitter

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You’re Nicked!

Yesterday @brandshandy nicked my post about the Gulp Stop Motion Animation (their words not mine!) “Gulp stop-animation shot with a Nokia N8: http://t.co/8Yolrau original article via @brendanmitchell (but we nicked it for BS)” Of course they didn’t actually nick anything, they stumbled across my tweet, clicked the link, thought, “Oow that’s nice, worthy of our own blog”, and simply […]

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Gulp

Having created the worlds smallest stop motion animation entitled Dot, Nokia set Sumo Science of Aardman the task of creating the worlds largest stop motion animation, the result is entitled “Gulp” the making of Gulp you should follow me on twitter here

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Let Sleeping Lions Lie

I admit that I’m not one to shy away from hitting the install button and crossing my fingers (although I do always make a thorough back up… I’ve been using computers long enough to know that!) So I took the plunge, I paid my £20 to Apple for OS X 10.7, or in Marketing Speak, […]

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Any Idea What This Means?

all I know is that I’ve lost almost a week of work… or about 100hrs of effort! (yes I work long days) It’s what I was greeted with this afternoon, when I rebooted my Mac and opened an Illustrator file I’ve been working on since 23rd May (Yes almost two months!). Thankfully I’m religious about […]

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Olloclip iPhone Lens Adapter

The Olloclip is a simple idea that’s destined to sell incredibly well. With everyone predominately taking photos with their mobile phone, and with the iPhone being the out and out winner in terms of Flickr uploads, the Olloclip adds a wide angle and super wide fish eye lens to your iPhone, plus it has a […]

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Have a Camper Day

I just stumbled across a video of the Have a Camper Day iPad / iPhone app. It’s gorgeous here today in London (far too nice for me to be stuck in doors working, but needs must!)… anyway this app would brighten up the gloomiest of days, and by the look of the forecast I might […]

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Path to Protest Timeline

Here’s a nicely crafted timeline of the uprisings in North Africa & the Middle East, one of the simplest yet clearest timelines I’ve seen… although, personally I think the scroll bar at the top should be more prominent, and the small side navigation is pointless, but the results are cear and easy to follow. you […]

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A Walk on the Wild Side

Seth Godin posted an interesting graphic yesterday that caught my eye, a perfect example of data mining (sorry couldn’t resist that one) Original Source and Seth’s Post It’s not that surprising when you think about it, but let’s look at another example, Death Rate by Mode of Transport in the UK… (NB: Flying doesn’t appear, as […]

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60 Things in 60 Secs

A clever advert, it concentrates on the benefits of using the product rather than the product itself, plus it’s witty, to the point and without doubt, it will be a hit with the wives, girlfriends, or women in general! Thanks to Unionversity for posting this you should follow me on twitter here

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The World’s Aging Population

You may have worked out by now that I’m a statistics and infographics junkie… so here is a brilliantly executed  interactive infographic that highlights the predicted age by percentage of various nations… as you will see, Japan, South Korea and Italy will have a very different looking population by 2050, compared to today by Fathom […]

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Stunning HDR Video

No doubt you’ve seen plenty of HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos on the web, if you’re not sure what I’m talking about type HDR into Google, but how may HDR videos have you seen, not many I’m sure. Due to nature of how HDR images are created, making a video is difficult and very time consuming, but […]

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