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Cool Tip: How to capture screen shots on your iPhone

Cool Tip: How to capture screen shots on your iPhone

If you’re a blogger, tweeter or regular garden geek, you’ll like this little iPhone tip. It’s not an earth mover, but you will say “Oooo“.
As someone who blogs, but lacks design skills, I find the process of creating images – particularly screen shots (aka screen captures) – to use in my posts a little clunky. [...]

Social Media 2009: in doodles

Okay, so I’m really late on this one. There was snow and…well, snow really.  It’s 2010 and it’s really time to put finger to keyboard again.
You’d have to have been in a dark hole for a fortnight not to have seen the deluge of 2009 reviews across the web. There are some really great ones [...]

2010 Resolution: Read One Book a Fortnight

2010 Resolution: Read One Book a Fortnight

Last week I read, and was inspired by, Julien Smith’s article ‘How To Read a Book a Week in 2010‘. Take a read, maybe you will be too.
In a nutshell, Julien set himself a challenge last year to read a book a week, 52 books a year. He read 54.
Why, you might wonder?
In his words, [...]

Sex, Drugs & Rock & Roll: Google Maps Mashup Style

Sex toys, crime statistics and the Artic Monkeys.
Words I never thought I could unite in one blog post. Take a moment to consider where this could go…
Nothing quite so sensational, I’m afraid, but interesting nonetheless.
Anyone who knows my geeky side will know that I have a penchant for Google Maps Mashups (If you don’t know [...]

Google gives Berlin Wall the (Big) Bird

I love the current series of altered Google logos celebrating 40 years of Sesame Street – especially today’s featuring the Count (one of my personal Jim Henson favourites).

However, I can’t help feel that it might have been slightly more appropriate to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall today.

Of course it [...]

Space for hire

Would you pay a guy $1 (or £0.60p at today’s exchange rate) to wear your branded t-shirt for a day?
Seems an odd question, but hundred’s of companies are apparently doing it.
Jason Sadler of iwearyourshirt.com has made $70,000 this year by selling ad space on the tshirts he wears, according to Mashable. Prices start at $1 [...]

I’m a Socialist – Not really but it won me a t-shirt

Just heard that I’ve won a Microsoft ‘I’m a PC’ t-shirt through a competition I entered on Mel Carson’s blog. For those not in the know, Mel is Microsoft Advertising’s adCenter Community Manager in London.
The competition was to come up with a personal t-shirt slogan that starts with ‘I’m a…’, plus explain why it’s applicable [...]

Google Not so Evil After All

Apparently, Google isn’t causing the end of life as we know it after all  (at least not environmentally).
According to TechCrunch, it seems that the Times might have been a little over zealous in the writing of the article, latching on to Google as the culprit. At the centre of the controversy, is the claim “that [...]

Google causing global warming?

Apparently typing ‘how to save energy’ into Google might not be the best way to do your bit for saving the planet.
According to research by Harvard scientist Alex Wissner-Gross, performing two searches on Google can produce about the same level of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cuppa.
It’s all to do with how [...]

I see Aliens in Google Trends

Now this is going to sound a little weird.
One of the brands I’m working on at the moment is running a pretty big branding campaign, with both online and offline activity. It’s running in 6 week bursts and is about to enter its second phase.
The first burst ran in October and early November and was [...]

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