Archive for July, 2009

Google Wave – Web 2.0 Email & Instant Messaging

July 23, 2009

Google Wave is Google’s next generation email and instant messaging web 2.0 client. It hasn’t been released yet as it’s still under development but the demonstration video they have posted indicates they have a very cool product on their hands!
I’ve only watched the first 30min of this 80min demonstration video but already there is some [...]

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Google Tips To Help Your Website Load Faster

July 14, 2009

If you are a web designer, you might find this quite handy. Inside the Google Code area, Google have a section called ‘Let’s Make The Web Faster‘ full of tips on how you can optimize your site to load faster and provide a better visitor experience.
There are video articles to explain various things you can [...]

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2 Degrees – New NZ mobile network launching in August 2009

July 12, 2009

If  you haven’t seen the ads on NZ tv already, there is finally going to be another telecommunications provider to take on Telecom and Vodafone who promises to shake things up by providing better value, lower cost mobile plans. Telstra failed, hopefully 2 Degrees won’t!

As part of their launch promotion ‘Join the Chinwag‘, they will [...]

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Paint.net – The FREE Photoshop Alternative

July 7, 2009

I stumbled upon Paint.net the other day and was highly impressed with this piece of FREE software.
Unlike Microsoft Paint, this is a different and much more powerful piece of image editing software.
You can work with layers, apply gradients, manipulate image and canvas sizing and many other of the necessary cool features that Photoshop has.
Obviously it [...]

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