Author Archives: Alistair

Cool URIs Don’t Change Apparently

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Alistair

The organisation behind a number of the standards that web development relies on in the present were forged through the World Wide Web Consortium or W3C. Over the years they’ve published countless documents on their web site outlining in great … Continue reading →

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Search Engine Land Editorial Quality Dropping

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Alistair

In the last week or so there have been a number of publishing errors on Search Engine Land, which I consider to be major mistakes that should have been caught by the authors, writers, editors and good quality work flow. … Continue reading →

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Google Maps Labs

Posted on February 27, 2010 by Alistair

In true Google fashion, they have recently extended the reach of their ‘labs’ experiments by releasing a Google Maps Labs – a place for the Google Maps team to experiment with new features that may or may not be ready … Continue reading →

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Google Fusion Tables

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Alistair

Google have recently released a new labs product known as Fusion Tables. Google Fusion Tables allows users to merge data from numerous data sources, to deliver compelling easy to understand comprehensive visualisations of the merged data set. The announcement for … Continue reading →

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Google Webmaster Tools Displaying PDF & Word Document Links

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Alistair

Google Webmaster Tools has the ability to explore the internal links and external links or backlinks information for a given domain, instead of relying on the infrequently updated and wildly inaccurate link: operator within a Google search. Traditionally the link … Continue reading →

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Google Local Business Centre Receives Upgrade With Humorous Outage Message

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Alistair

The Google Local Business Centre is currently undergoing maintenance for approximately 60 minutes and instead of a standard maintenance notice, Google engineers have gone for something a little more light hearted: The Google Local Business Center is unavailable for the … Continue reading →

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Google Search Options Enhanced

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Alistair

Google Search Options allows the user to refine their search to target a subset of the normal search results, such as only showing video, forum or news results in addition to date and time filtering. Today the search options have … Continue reading →

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Leaving Kubrick

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Alistair

Since launching #if debug in November 2007, I have been using the default WordPress theme. Initially I didn’t change the theme because I thought that it was sufficient and after not chaning it for so long – I had unfortunately … Continue reading →

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Firefox Software Upgrade Process Inefficient

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Alistair

I’m using Firefox for the first time on my notebook in quite some time and I noticed that it was downloading an update. Curiously, I checked to see what version I was currently running and it was 3.0.10 and I … Continue reading →

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Hicksdesign Redesigns Without Any Fanfare

Posted on June 21, 2009 by Alistair

Jon Hicks, of Hicksdesign fame, has recently redesigned his unique and always creative web site and it appears to have gone unnoticed thus far. Likes The texture applied to the main circular logo, it makes it feel like a heavy … Continue reading →

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