Archive for December, 2006
Interested in helping us test LouderVoice?
Posted on December 19, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Business, Technology.
Those of you who know me well also know that I’ve spent the past few months working hard on building a new web-site called LouderVoice. We’re coming close to launching the site properly (probably in late January or early February) but before we do we would really like to have some people help us try out the site and tell us what they think.
The plan at the moment is that we’ll be inviting a very small number of people we know into the Beta1 phase in the next few days. This is because we know there are missing features and some holes in the error handling but it is still a highly functional application and we want to get that initial feedback. The focus in that phase is around features not stability. Questions we will be asking include:
- What features do you like?
- What do you not like?
- What’s missing?
- Would you use the following if we implemented it?
We will then move into Beta2 in January with a much bigger group of people and with the functionality that the early group thought was top priority. We will continue to ask questions about functionality but the main focus will be stability and usability.
So who should sign up? Actually a few different groups of people.
- Bloggers - as many of you as possible. If you have one reader or a thousand, we want to hear from you. If you have ever written valuable information that you think others will find useful, then I think you’ll like what we have to offer you.
- Searchers - During Beta the volume of content will be small but we’d love some enthusiastic testers to sign up and make sure you have everything you need to find and use the information on the site
- The Opinionated - If you don’t blog but are willing to create interesting useful information which will always belong to you building your reputation, then we’ll provide the tools you need to get heard.
So go on, we’re sure you are going to love this site and the only thing you need to provide is your e-mail address. We promise never to use it for any purpose other than inviting you to try the Beta. We will never sell your e-mail address to anyone.
Technorati Tags: LouderVoice, Argolon, Beta
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There goes another icon of my yoof
Posted on December 19, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Entertainment.
Joe Barbera has died aged 95. I wonder how many re-runs he saw over the years? That man is responsible for a huge number of my favourite TV memories from childhood (and now with Boomerang, as an immature adult):
- Tom and Jerry
- The Flintstones
- Scooby Doo
- The Huckleberry Hound Show
- The Yogi Bear Show
- Quick Draw McGraw
- Top Cat
- Wacky Races
- Banana Splits
And not forgetting the greatest cartoon ever: Hong Kong Phooey! De de de de de de daaaa.
Technorati Tags: Joseph+Barbera, Hanna+Barbera
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You’ll be getting Internet Explorer 7 pushed to your PC from now on
Posted on December 5, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Technology.
If you have Windows XP and if it hasn’t happened already then Microsoft appear to be pushing out the new release of the Internet Explorer Web Browser. They are making it optional so you have to agree to install before they do (the security centre logo in the bottom right hand corner of the screen that looks like a shield will be yellow with an exclamation mark in it).
For almost all web users who don’t use Firefox as their browser, IE7 is a big improvement over IE6. The most obvious visible difference is that you can now use tabs to browse. This just means that you can have many sites open within one browser window rather than in multiple windows. Middle click using the mouse wheel on a link should open up a new tab with that link.
One unfathomable change is that the menu bar at the top is turned off by default. If that freaks you, as it did me, just right click at the very top of the IE window and there should be an option to turn it on.
There are two utterly broken sites that I use with which you cannot use IE7. The first is Enterprise Ireland whose site is just badly designed and non standards compliant and the second is Ulster Bank Online Business Banking. I’ve ranted enough about how embarrassing the Ulster site is. They have upgraded home users to something designed in the 21st century, we’re still waiting for them to do that on the business side.
Most people should install it and will be happy with it. The more people who do, the more designers of badly written web-sites will be forced to learn a few standards.
Technorati Tags: Internet+Explorer+7, IE7, Enterprise+Ireland, Ulster+Bank, Anytime,
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