Organize your Schedule Online with Plan.fm

So I found another cool app the other day. plan.fm, simple name with a simple purpose of uniting all of your plans in one place. You can draw in feeds from social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter and merge your plans all into one calendar. ...

January 5, 2010 · 2 min · 371 words · Jake

Northern Ireland Dating Site Redesign

NIDating is a free Northern Ireland Dating and matching personals service for local singles from Belfast to all other regions across the province. The site also caters to other singles throughout the rest of the UK and Ireland. ...

December 30, 2009 · 1 min · 182 words · icarnaghan

Inside the Webb is back with a New Design

So yes, there haven’t been many updates here at Inside the Webb in the past few months. However, we’re starting a whole new batch of great interviews, reviews, and demos of the latest and greatest web 2.0 apps across the internet! We’ve launched with a brand new design and look, and we’re back to claim all web 2.0. ...

December 29, 2009 · 1 min · 107 words · Jake

Developing a Successful Design Blog: Lessons from Web Designer Depot

Design blogs are the new in, everybody who is interested in making money online and knows any amount about web design is starting their own blog. Granted only a few have made it and gained star-status in the blogosphere, but there are thousands of others who struggle to build their way to the top. ...

December 13, 2009 · 3 min · 627 words · Jake

Configuring TortoiseSVN to Manage Updates on Pligg Sites

I am extremely fond of the new social news script Pligg CMS. I have been following it since early release, and updating Pligg sites used to be very difficult. However from instructions from this wiki, you can use TortoiseSVN to control the version and upgrades of your Pligg site with ease. ...

November 14, 2009 · 1 min · 91 words · Jake

The Web's Cutest URL Shortening Service Moourl.com

I know I know, I’m a guy and the word “cute” shouldn’t be in my vocabulary. Well if I ever needed to use the word cute to describe anything, it would have to be moourl.com. It’s a URL shortening service with an actually bearable design to it. Beautiful vectors and color scheme, I love the site! ...

November 8, 2009 · 2 min · 359 words · Jake

Interview with a Digg.com Software Engineer Kurt Wilms

As a web designer myself, I have found that other web designers I talk to always have favorite websites they go to for inspiration. Not saying they want to copy a specific website, but there are just some site’s that “stick” and really inspire you to create web designs. ...

November 2, 2009 · 6 min · 1084 words · Jake

Interview with is.gd URL Shortener

New URL Shortening services hit the web every week it seems. I can remember not too long ago when TinyURL was just starting up, and that hit with a huge bang. Ever since then, there have been countless creations of URL shorteners (where some even provided stats). However, only a select few have really succeeded to hit mainstream popularity and be of any use. ...

October 26, 2009 · 8 min · 1566 words · Jake

Interview with ThisWebHost - An Impressive new Web Hosting Company

Finding a decent web hosting company today is difficult. So many companies overprice, can’t keep uptime promises, have horrible support, or offer you barely any space to store your site’s files and content. The few that have shown promise in the past are some of my favorites: Hostgator, Dreamhost, Bluehost, etc. However as I was browsing the web one night (like always) I ran into a great looking hosting company, This*. ...

October 24, 2009 · 4 min · 848 words · Jake

Mobile Device Applications from a Development Perspective

Limitations and opportunities explored Mobile devices have many positive aspects including opening up networking channels and increasing the accessibility of information, but as with any new technology, potential pitfalls must be researched, remedied and cautiously provided for. This literature review discusses several potential pitfalls of mobile technologies as well as potential opportunities faced by developers of software as well as mobile device manufacturers. More specifically, several themes are highlighted through existing literature on areas concerned with the development of mobile applications. These themes include context awareness, mobile security, usability and accessibility. By focusing on these themes and researching the literature available, the developer will be better equipped to face the challenges and opportunities ahead in order to create practical and usable applications. ...

October 22, 2009 · 13 min · 2560 words · icarnaghan