This year the Spirit Rover on Mars officially finished her 5 year 90 Day mission. In case you are not aware this amazing rover with its sister Opportunity were originally only supposed to operate for 90 days on the surface of mars. However spirit lasted over 5 years performing good science and returning some amazing [...]
Guide to xHTML
Makeuseof.com has made available a manual on xHTML and CSS to view for free on scribd or download as a pdf from their site (link to Article on makeuseof.com) Below is the Scribd article embedded for viewing here. The make use of Scribd Channel is http://www.scribd.com/MakeUseOf_manuals
Beginning Photoshop: A Developer’s Guide
Mobile Tuts+ have a nice 6 series tutorial on using Photoshop as a Design tool for Web Designers and Designers in general. This tutorial series also covers design for mobile devices. It looks like a nice introduction to both Photoshop and mobile design. Overview from the site Among professional graphic and web designers, Photoshop is internationally the [...]
4 Tips On How To Become A Better Web Designer – CSSReflex
CSS Reflex have a nice post with some basic tips for web designers both new and experienced. It’s worth taking a look over there. Introduction to the post by the author: Website design has never been easy. Even today when there are many powerful tools out there, web designers still have to do a lot [...]
APOD: 2011 May 25 – Space Shuttle Rising
This image is amazing and I wish I had seen it and more importantly taken it. This July will be the last time ever a photo can be taken with the launch of the final shuttle mission ever. Explanation: Whats that rising from the clouds? The space shuttle. If you looked out the window of [...]
Is that site not working for you or for everyone?
This is a quick one. Say you are trying to access a site and your browser will not connect to it. Is there a problem with your connection, your browser, your computer or is the site actually down and no one is able to connect to it. There is a web page that will allow [...]
50th Anniversary of Human Spaceflight
Space.com (link) have a nice infographic showing the various manned spacecraft of the last 50 years. This infographic has all of the craft shown to scale allowing you to see the relative sizes of the various craft as well as the size of the crew of the various craft. I find images like this to [...]
Why your Web Design Sucks
1st web Designer (Link) have posted an article called 20 reasons why your web design sucks – part I. This is an interesting article that shows examples of bad design on websites and why these elements look so bad. The big advantage of an article like this is of course that when you see examples [...]
History of Search Engines
seo.com have a nice blog post about the history and development of search engines here. As part of this history they produced the following infograph charting the major developments in search engines. It isn’t a complete history by any stretch of the imagination but a nice introduction all the same. Click on the infograph to [...]
Wikipedia beginnings
A nice little infographic outlining where wikipedia came from and showing some statistics about it. Single Grain