Archive for March, 2008
Ever considered the carbon footprint of a website? Heap Media Australia - the people behind Blackle.com, clearly have and are now encouraging more of us to do the same…
They are providing an alternate search homepage, powered by Google Custom Search, which displays its results using a black background rather than Google’s traditional white. As some monitors require less energy to display black pixels than they do for white ones, Blackle hopes to help lower the carbon footprint of our everyday Google use. The folks at Blackle calculate that the site has saved over half a million Watt hours already, since its launch in January 2007, and also done much to raise the profile of green computing.
Despite some controversy regarding the…
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Blogging is one of the most significant sectors of user created content on the web today. Starting a blog is as easy as opening a Hotmail account, and most web users have access to at least one blogging outlet - be it through a social networking profile, a blogging forum, or perhaps even a personal blog page. What is significant is the rate at which the volume of this content is increasing - far more quickly than people are uploading videos to Youtube, or indeed any other form of user published content. The numbers sum up the situation pretty clearly: 175,000 new blogs launched every day, 1.6 million total blog posts daily (equating to 18 updates per second), and over…
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EtonDigital is delighted to announce the launch of SprintBio.com, a handy new service designed to help you reduce your energy bills and make the switch to renewable energy as swiftly and easily as possible. The company offers an extensive range of environmentally friendly energy appliances, as well as consultation and information on its product line; why not check it out - you could do both your wallet and the planet a world of good…
The site utilises WordPress as its Content Management System, allowing the company’s staff and its directors, Jane Rampin and Scott Quinton, to update the page’s content with ease. The pair reacted to the site’s launch, saying they were ‘delighted with the design’, which is structured around effective…
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So, despite having twice been banned by the BBFC, Manhunt 2 is finally due for a UK release. Firstly let me just say that I have not played the game, and that I have no basis on which to comment if it should or should not be released/banned/censored or whatever. What concerns me here are the inherent flaws in the UK’s video game rating and censorsing procedures that this whole process has exposed, and which surely must be addressed in view of the fact that the gaming industry is only due to get bigger, (current global net worth is £20bn a year) making similar situations in the future pretty likely.
The history of Manhunt 2 is that, having been banned by…
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The equation is pretty simple: as the quality of modern broadband provision increases, so too does the range of content that can be accessed illegally. A decade ago an evening’s Napster haul could rarely extend to beyond a few single mp3s, mostly chosen from a fairly narrow selection of what was currently popular. Now a few hours’ downloading can easily yield a hundred chart albums, maybe even a few Hollywood films, computer games or other software. It’s no wonder that the people responsible for publishing this content are keen to reclaim a market they used to rule, and in which now they are increasingly seen as out-dated ogres, selfishly refusing to share, like a child hoarding toys. Their latest lifeline…
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