Project Alphabet

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Project Alphabet is a collection of photographs which documents “found letters” in objects. Some of the pictures are great at spurring the imaginative possibilities of typography.

The new 3GPP Multimedia standard for Mobiles

In Archive by Fredy Ore

A first look at the new 3GPP Multimedia standard for Mobiles. Based on the MPEG4 standard and Quicktime architecture, mobile phones are now being turned into a multimedia paradise. Here …

The SARS Art Project

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Whilst reading BoingBoing a few weeks ago I came across a little project Xeni Jardin started alongside some of the other folks at Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow, David Pescovitz, and …

Designing with a backdoor in mind

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Jeff Lash has written a useful and interesting article in Digital Web magazine titled, IAnything goes – an interesting article looking at the importance of designing for visitors who don?t …

The Best of CHI-Web & SigIA-l discussions

In Archive by Fredy Ore

I thought I posted this in March, but whilst searching the archives I couldn’t find it, so here it is… UIWeb have collated a useful list containing the best of …

Beagle 2 takes off. Next stop… Mars

In Archive by Fredy Ore

So we are off to Mars once again, this time with the British led Beagle2 effort to land on Mars as part of the European Space Agency’s Mars Express Mission …

Apple’s patented Piles user interface

In Archive by Fredy Ore

The Register comments in more detail of Apple’s patented Piles User Interface. Tagged as the next generation User Interface (UI) and designed to replace the windows/folders metaphor which apple designed …

Google Limit

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Ok, Google is big and Google is beautiful. That’s why we use it as our preferred search engine (don’t we?!?). But Google doesn’t know everything and just because Google can’t …

Printing URL’s of links using @Media Types

In Archive by Fredy Ore

CSS properties are designed for a variety of media such as braille, handheld, projected presentations, including printers. When printing a Web page can often not include the URL’s behind those …

EU Domains

In Archive by Fredy Ore

The EU-appointed registrar for .eu domains is EURid, an amalgamation of a Swedish, a Belgian and an Italian registrar. The .eu TLD (top level domain) is seen as a counterpart …

3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Who hasn’t got at least one of those e-mails once, asking for contact persons, allegedly to get millions of dollars (US) out of Nigeria (or South Africa)? Well, in Nigeria …

IETF – The Internet Engineering Task Force

In Archive by Fredy Ore

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) website contains a listing of all protocols and standards created for the Internet. The IETF is a large open international community of network designers, …

Photos from the Annular Eclipse

In Archive by Fredy Ore

The BBC posts some readers photos of the annular solar eclipse which was seen from the north-west of Scotland, a large area of Europe, the Middle East and some areas …

Screen captures of on-screen Help

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Here is an interesting gallery comparing the different types of on-screen Help by software-applications on the Mac, both for Mac OS9 and OS X.