Author Archives: Matthew Blackford

I Want My Photos Please

By Matthew Blackford | Published: February 17, 2010
As bandwidth and download limits sky rocket, rich media is taking over the world. Media and entertainment companies are (mostly) embracing this trend, but there are ever increasing opportunities for users to contribute. Flickr is arguably the most ideal way to host and share photos and videos, with site’s tour making this claim: Flickr is almost [...]
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What’s the Buzz?

By Matthew Blackford | Published: February 16, 2010
You’ve heard of Facebook, you’ve heard of Twitter, and now we’re hearing about Buzz. It’s pretty surprising that we haven’t heard anything earlier, given that the new kid on the block is a full blown Google release without the standard “alpha” or “beta” tag line that we’ve come to expect. This is a well thought [...]
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Mozy On Down To Backup Town

By Matthew Blackford | Published: February 11, 2010
Since I spend a lot of my life working with computers, you’d expect that I know a lot about backing up. I’m always telling people about how important it is to protect their digital belongings, and yet I’ve got virtually no backup system in place! I’m not alone either, with most people I know being [...]
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Forget Avatar, Go Gravatars

By Matthew Blackford | Published: February 9, 2010
You can keep your big blue animated 3D aliens, even if the women were oddly attractive. I prefer small square 2-dimensional pictures of what are usually people’s heads. While the technology behind James Cameron’s blockbuster was bleeding edge, the system behind Gravatars is relatively lo-tech, but the idea is so simple that you wonder why [...]
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Quick Tip: Sync iPhone Bookmarks with Xmarks

By Matthew Blackford | Published: February 8, 2010
Hey Team, it’s time for another Quick Tip! This one’s a follow up on my post Bookmarks Are Back With Xmarks, where I discussed synchronisation of bookmarks between computers and browsers. In the post I mentioned: Now to be honest, the mobile interface isn’t very strong. It’s not a genuine replacement for native bookmarks, but apparently [...]
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Bookmarks Are Back With Xmarks

By Matthew Blackford | Published: February 8, 2010
Since the first popular web browser was released in 1993, bookmarks have been a fact of the internet that keep us organised and cause us frustration at the same time. Originally when the web was a tangled mess, and the world was still using AltaVista, bookmarks were necessary for you to find your GeoCities site [...]
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