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Gradients. Don’t you just love their multi-coloured wowness. And drop shadows – where would we be about them?! And forms yeeaaaaa. Wait, they’re a bit boring aren’t they? Whilst designers (sorry, I don’t want to paint everyone with the same brush!) have been doing their darndest to create fancy feature panels, bold backgrounds and tricky [...]
For a recent client project at Flag, we’ve done a lot of research into HTML5 video technology and after much trial and error (and pulling out of hair), we came to a very tight, clean solution which worked in modern web browsers, older web browsers (you know the one) AND mobile devices. I won’t bore [...]
We’re getting towards the halfway point of the year em-em-ex so it’s about time for a new playlist of new material from this year. This little gem features a mix of cracking new material from big hitters and newcomings alike. Below is the track listing and click on the links at the bottom to launch [...]
A couple of weeks back, I wrote a post about MGMT streaming their album ‘Congratulations’ for free on their website. Following on from that, James Murphy aka LCD Soundsystem is now streaming his latest album ‘This Is Happening’ online, a full month in advance of it’s UK release – top work! 2007′s Sound of Silver [...]
With the unbridled success of the iPod and the up-take of MP3 as the most widely distributed (or ‘shared’, to add a degree of political spin!) file format for music, the debate has simmered over the moral, legal and commercial relationship between music the internet – whether legal or illegal. The expansion of social interaction [...]
As you may be able to tell, Colourgarden has been reskinned – again! After much deliberation, I decided to go minimalist and here is the result! In the process of the build, I’ve learnt a lot of new WordPress skills and now have an even further (if that was possible) appreciation of the platform. I’m [...]
It’s been one of those things over the years, like fuel prices or video refereeing in football. We all moan about it but, in true British spirit, we do nothing about it. The horror show that is the Internet Explorer 6 browser has long been the bane of web developers everywhere but finally there is [...]
The relentless Mozilla machine recently released some interesting first looks at the next version of their ground-breaking browser – Firefox 4.0. While Firefox 3.5 is still causing waves in browser innovation circles following it’s release in June and Firefox as a whole reached the one billion (!) download mark last Friday (31st July), the Mozilla [...]
Even before a guitar string had been plucked, cymbal crashed or disc loaded (or should that be MP3?), there was plenty of hubbub surrounding the seventh Lovebox Festival. First there was the news that Mark Ronson would be performing with Duran Duran on the Saturday night and secondly the news that Groove Armada have announced [...]
Playlist of the best tunes from the seventh Lovebox music festival hosted by Groove Armada at Victoria Park, London on 18th-19th July 2009.
I’m a BIG fan of WordPress. I love it’s customisability and ease-of-use from both a developer and content author point of view. But I got to thinking that, as a CMS (content management system) it was maybe overkill for a smaller website which lead me to doing a little research for potential solutions should I [...]
Anyone that has used Spotify will know that it is an incredible application – a liberation of music if you will. It has been launched barely six months but already there seems to be a worthy competitior. It’s called Grooveshark. There are a number of differences between Spotify and Grooveshark, the first and most obvious [...]
It’s all Indie, it’s 100 minutes of music (or thereabouts) and it’s a devilshly clever use of the famous American car race. Enough said. Enjoy.
I’ve listened to quite a bit of good new music this year so far so here comes a small playlist of ’09s best.
I’ll update it from time-to-time with new tunes but there’s a real mix of established artists and complete newbies…some of which could hit it big (see MGMT c.2008).
I’ve been wanting to go for a couple years but I’ve finally got my act together and bought myself (and my lovely girlfriend) a ticket for the Lovebox Weekender this year. Lovebox is a festival hosted by the legends that are Groove Armada and held in Victoria Park, London in the middle of July every [...]
