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Great Web Design

Nine skills that separate good and great designers ~ Authentic Boredom I never really took myself as much as a designer, I just know what looks good and what doesn’t and what works and doesn’t. I am starting to venture out into abit of web developing and learning a hell of alot along the way [...]

 

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Day Against DRM

I am going to post something but not an extended bit of writing because I do run the risk of ranting. Today is the day against DRM, yes that little thing iTunes that limits the music you bought, not because iTunes wants to control the market, but because the labels want to control the market. [...]

 

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Tesco moves into software market

BBC NEWS | Business | Tesco moves into software market Oh god no, Tesco’s at it again. There is a lesson to be learned here at some point and Tesco is going to learn it the hard way like Microsoft has. “You cannot be everything to everybody” As much as Tesco is excelling at what [...]

 

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Arndale Opening

I couldn’t get to the Arndale opening, as much as I wanted so I thought I would link to some pictures so I don’t feel all that left out. http://www.nikfletcher.com/index_files/arndale2.html

 

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another set of site updates

I am working on some updates to the site this weekend, so far i have tweaked the site in places and moved some of the features. If your viewing this on the homepage you will see my flickr pics across the top. I am also working on subtle changes, but they all add up to [...]

 

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New Google Reader

A logged onto Google Reader to check on my subscribed feeds and got welcomed by we have updated page. All I have to say about the new UI is wow. I really like it while it might take me a bit to get used to it, it now does what I wanted it to do [...]

 

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Web Dependancy

Continuing in my long list of ideas on technological dependancies. I though I would turn my attention to the World Wide Web. Yes the thing you are viewing this on now. With the web becoming a self-purpetuating cloud of buzz words and ways for us to communicate for free, could we live without it. Simple [...]

 

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I missed Yahoo!

I am doing some work/research into SEO for myself and also northernmusiconline.co.uk and I have almost exclusively being looking at Google. It was only until last night when a yahoo’ed myself that a realized, ‘god i forgot these’ I think its weird that I didn’t think of it sooner, but seen as I use google [...]

 

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Apple Arndale Centre

The Apple Store at the Arndale Centre Manchester is opening this saturday. Lets see if i can get there and add another t-shirt to my collection.

 

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See inside a living cell

This landed in my RSS reader at the beginning of the week and a keep watching it is unbelievable to think that is a cell. The Render and whole video itself is just fantastic, it makes it alot easier to grasp the fact everything is 3D which you don’t get using microscopes and electron micro-graphs. [...]

 

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Bootcamps Back

So I have put Windows back on on my macbook, and it certainly does fly. Shame it defeats the point of my mac but I need Windows for Visual Basic so needs must, but I do spend as little as possible in windows as I can.

 

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One Web Day - Cont

Continuing what I said this morning, I am going to write something with a web theme, and try not to be boring. I could give a history – but that would be boring – What I can say is how the web has changed the way a consume media and also become a creator of [...]

 

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One Web Day

one web day Just think how much the web has changed our lives and those around us. I will be posting some more stuff before the days out. Links http://www.onewebday.org/action/

 

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A step in the right direction?

There was much talk about educating children to use the internet responsibly and not give out personal details. While this is a step in the right direction and something I support entirely, there is still a missing link, its alright having this information given to kids at school but there are very few schools that [...]