Online Banking Usability and The Dreaded Card Reader
Banks are passing the burden of security onto the user and making online banking less convenient.
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Dunbar's Number and The Monkeysphere
For many years, one way or another, I have been stumbling back to an interesting and funny article: What is the Monkeyspehere by David Wong on cracked.com. Essentially the article explores the limit of people we can care about. This “Monkeysphere”, cited as about 150, is the rough maximum number of people we can have…
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CAPTCHA – Passing the Problem to the User
CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a method of preventing spam commonly used in web forms. The user is shown a distorted image of numbers, letters or words and is asked to type them out. This ensures that the form is not filled out automatically by a bot…
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Understanding Google Gears – The Basics
Some people are unsure exactly what Google Gears is, what it does and how you can use it. Read on for a quick and dirty guide that will give you an understanding of this technology by Google so you can benefit from it and even use it in your websites/applications.
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Thank You Sir Bobby
Deaths of public figures and celebrities usually don’t affect me, but the news of Sir Bobby Robson’s Death came with a bit of emotion for me. The 1990 world cup was a big part of my youth. Amongst the memories that stick out from it is Bobby Robson’s interview after being knocked out of the…
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Why I Use Coda for Web Development
Coda is a Web Development application by for the Mac, produced by Panic. Despite being a relatively young project it has gained a large following. Here are my reasons for being one of those followers.
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Tag Clouds and Tagging – Does it Work?
A couple of years ago the web exploded with tags – user defined words or phrases to identify information such as photos and bookmarks. The hype has since faded away but tags are still popular and usually always included in new information based websites. Here we look at the effectiveness of tags and how useful they really are.
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Magento eCommerce – Bloated or Brilliant?
Magento eCommerce took the open source software world by storm when it officially launched on March 31st 2008. Many developers, including myself, jumped on board and started using it. While the feature set and branding is unquestionably great what is it actually like to work with?
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Run Out of Link Building Ideas? Look at Your Website
Link building is an important part of Search Engine Optimisation and different methods are discussed in forums, blogs and meetups every day. Here we take a look at an alternative approach to finding link building opportunities.
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One Google Mail Account for Multiple Websites
When you manage multiple websites and wear many different hats it can be awkward finding a good solution for receiving and answering email for each of them. Here I explain how I manage this problem and what works for me using Google Mail.
