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Support Details technical support management

Charlie Vaughan — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:56:20 +0000

When people report bugs they almost never provide the minimum, simple information that would help you investigate the problem. Support Details simplifies this by automatically identifying a machines system details for export in popular formats. Support Details by Imulus interactive agency is a simple little web app that does one job very well. There’s no preferences [...]

.com 25 years old today

Charlie Vaughan — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:04:44 +0000

On 15th March 1985, 25 years ago today the first .com domain was registered by Symbolics computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 668,000 .com sites are registered every month totaling 250 million. Read more on the .com’s silver anniversary on Facebook and the BBC.

Chatroulette users caught with their pants down

Charlie Vaughan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:34:57 +0000

EVERYBODY is talking about chatroulette.com the new live voice and video cam site where you are randomly connected to strangers and introduced to their stranger behaviour. But what you may not have heard of yet is the first chatroulette spin off I’ve seen: chatroulettemap.com, the site that matches users of chatroulette to a map with a [...]

Did Last.fm pass data to RIAA?

Charlie Vaughan — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:41:09 +0000

There’s something of a spat developing over whether Last.fm’s parent company CBS handed over sensitive user listening data, usernames and IP address to the RIAA. TechCrunch challenges Last.fm to Deny This after Last.fm says “TechCrunch are full of shit”.

Kevin Rose’s new site WeFollow

Charlie Vaughan — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:36:30 +0000

Digg founder Kevin Rose last week launched his new site WeFollow.com, a user-content-driven, Twitter directory. WeFollow categorises and aggregates your Twitter account based on the three keywords you supply and your Twitter following.

Lead designer leaves Google

Charlie Vaughan — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:08:55 +0000

Douglas Bowman, Google’s Visual Design Lead has left the company, posting his reasons on his blog Stop Design. In his goodbye message he sites the over use of testing and data to justify every design decision saying: “that data eventually becomes a crutch for every decision”.

IE8 now available for download

Charlie Vaughan — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:15:04 +0000

Version 8 of Windows Internet Explorer is ready for download. IE8 thankfully promises to be more standards compliant than predecessors and as a result features a “Compatibility View” button to account for sites optimised for legacy versions of the IE render engine. IE8 offers developers the opertunity to force IE8 to use the IE7 render [...]

Gigya Social Widgets

Charlie Vaughan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:04:59 +0000

Gigya.com is a “widget sharing platform” that helps developers and publishers distribute widgets, providing an API and analytics, to help you create and publish to 70 well known social networks, blog platforms and bookmarking sites.

Are My Sites Up?

Charlie Vaughan — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:00:37 +0000

aremysitesup.com offers a web service that notifies you when your website becomes unavailable and then comes back up. The free package will check up to 20 sites 25 times a day, sending notifications by email or SMS. The premium $75 package will check 60 sites every 15 mins or less, with additional notification and advanced [...]

Improved WordPress performance, shared hosting and 500 errors

Charlie Vaughan — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:46:45 +0000

I’d previously mentioned how I’d had problems with WordPress 500 errors when attempting to install plugins. I had put this down incompatibilities between WordPress MU and some plugins, but with a few simple changes to the configuration of the PHP installation on your hosting account, you can quickly improve WordPress performance. After getting a bit bored [...]