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Webcanvas – One Big Online Collaborative Painting – Largest in the World

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Webcanvas is a large online digital painting project.

A large ‘artwork’ that is purportedly the largest collaborative painting in the world.

It is free to look at and you have to register (for free) to add your own graffiti to it – because that is essentially what it is – a giant digital graffiti wall.

You are given a couple of levels of zoom to get a broader overview of a segment of the wall, but the facility to look at the wall as a whole is not yet possible.

screenshot from a small segment of webcanvas, the largest collaborative painting in the world

Screenshot of a small segment of webcanvas, the largest collaborative painting in the world

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Entire Super Mario Bros (NES) Free Level Map Images

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

One of the most important games of all time has to be the first Super Mario Bros game on the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System). The legendary series is credited to globally renown Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto (b.1952), who also created Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Pikmin and other series of games for Nintendo.

Screen shot from the opening level of Super Mario Bros on the NES

Screen shot from the opening level of Super Mario Bros on the NES

In Mario, the abstracted design and clarity of the platform elements were most definitely a form of art. Even more so now, knowing the ridiculous (compared to present day) restrictions on what was possible graphically. The blue skies and clumpy clouds puffing by; the jolly Italian plumber, Mario; the lumpy green abstract trees and bushes; the cutely designed enemies; the colourful changes of scenery. (more…)

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Riding the Line: LineRider on Wii and DS

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

The infuriatingly addictive Line Rider, which since it was first seen via website deviantART as a free Flash-made interactive ‘toy’ on the PC in 2006 has become an internet phenomenon, is now to be released on Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS in Spring 2008.

One of the many highly acclaimed Youtube videos showing Line Rider in action

It is easy to say that the best thing about this game is its simplicity, after all, all that the player needs to do is draw a series of lines for the “dude” to sled down. However, getting the lines in the right place to ensure the little bob-hatted character does not crash and burn on one of your ambitious vertical creations is itself an exercise in advanced geometry. (more…)

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Adobe Software Costs 60% More in the UK. Director 11 is $640 Cheaper in the US.

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Adobe’s multimedia authoring environment, Adobe® Director® 11 software has been over four years in development. However, despite the extra years that they have had over Adobe’s Flash development team to update and improve it’s features, it is unfortunately looking like just a patch (more…)

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Official Google Easter Video Game! Easter Bunny Catching Eggs

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Google have a free Easter video game you can play online, AND there’s your normal google search at the top. Great. So maybe it’s worth bookmarking this at least just for the Easter Break?

Google Easter Bunny Game Screenshot

The Official Google Easter Bunny Game

Play it online now in Internet Explorer or Firefox or whatever browser you have, and decide whether you think it’s a Halo-beater (if you know what that means). (more…)

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‘Mesothelioma’ and ‘Credit’ are Amongst Top Paid Contextual Advertising Keywords

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Web site publishers can make a lot of money by using contextual advertising to target adverts at visitors. This is done by using an advertising scheme like Adsense (by Google). A company may have a service or product they wish to promote, and they will pay for adverts from a scheme like Adwords (the flip-side of Adsense).

The publisher opts in by allowing the context-sensitive adverts to be displayed alongside their published content. If a visitor clicks on one of these adverts, then the publisher will get paid a percentage of the cost that the initial company paid. (more…)

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Search Engine Optimisation / Content Management / Web Design Services

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Let us help to effectively promote your services.

The websites we create are accessible and validated to the WC3 standards.

We use compliant CSS 2.1 and XHTML 1.0 for layout and design.

Let us help you communicate your ideas through the design process, let us tailor each step to suit your specific needs.

Refresh your existing website with a new design or upgrade to a customised Content Management System.

Our prices are always affordable.

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Some of our projects from the website portfolio.

Lydia Cherry Events website screenshot

Development of a new website for Lydia Cherry Events.

ACE - Arts, Culture and Entertainment website screenshot for Bradford University

Development of a completely new identity and website for an arts portal for Bradford University and the region.

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Adobe Director 11 2008 March Release Date

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

After numerous rantings, rumours and postponements, the long-awaited update to Director MX 2004, Director 11 is being released in March 2008. At the Adobe MAX 2007 conference, held in Chicago in October 2007, some of the first news about Director 11 was released.

The official Director 11 product release details will be revealed between 18th – 22nd February at GDC 2008 in San Francisco.

Updates to existing features in Director 11

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