On the social video sharing website, and second largest search engine, YouTube, there are videos for nearly everything and anything imaginable. One of the latest trends that are turning into an entire genre of viral videos is the idea of specific challenges, where a person tries to complete a challenge on film. Most of these end up in abject failure, which actually makes for some entertaining videos. Here are a few of the most viral [...]

When we think of arcade games, our minds tend to drift nostalgically back to the carefree days of youth. We reminisce about the simple two-button joys of pinball machines or the thrill of dropping a meticulously positioned claw crane onto a teddy bear. What typically doesn’t come to mind, however, is sex, suicide, or economics. via Mykl Roventine Top 10 Weirdest and Most Controversial Arcade Games are : Boong Ga Boong Ga via miltownkid Pretty [...]

Siri, the speech recognition software courtesy of the iPhone 4S, was apparently designed to make life easier, whether you’re trying  to find out whether it’s going to rain in the next 12 hours, or what the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow is. You name it, Siri tries to do it. ‘Tries’ being a key word. Credit to renatomitra Unfortunately, there are a few teething issues. Namely that Siri doesn’t really work that well. Or, [...]

Adobe InDesign is the industry standard design software for preparing text and artwork for print. Not only that, if you have made a mistake, (for example, your images are too small or not in the right format) the programme will notify you so that you can make the necessary adjustments. As a training company, we have seen a substantial increase in demand for InDesign training in the last year, not only for print but for [...]

Animated pictures are a great way of representing yourself online by using them as avatars on forums and in comments. You can also use animated images to create memes, commixes and other funny things that many Internet communities are known for. But if you’ve never created an animated image before, you’re probably wondering how do you actually do it. It used to be pretty hard before, but today, there are plenty of apps and sites [...]

Siri is designed to be one of the world’s first virtual assistants, a life saver for those with hectic business schedules who can’t afford to pay a human one. The commercials for the product naturally attempt to depict her as a functioning AI, when a more realistic expectation would be a slightly more efficient and voice activated smartphone. However, Siri, despite all her flaws, does do wonders for your efficiency, so long as you learn [...]

The life of a college student can be very busy and stressful, so it is important to be as organized as possible. Being organized will allow you to be able to keep track of all of vital information and help make your life easier. If you have a smartphone it is easier than ever before to become extremely organized. While there are several great organization apps available, these are the four best for college students. [...]

Nobody argues the fact that using an iPhone you can practically perform plenty of your tasks, regardless of your qualifications and trade. The thing is that nowadays there are so many applications available within your mobile device that it is impossible not to find some to help you as a web designer, if this is what you do by trade. In this line of work you are required to make use of internet and many [...]

St Patrick’s Day is upon us and what better way to celebrate it in true 21st century style than to download some smartphone apps on the subject. credit: k4dordy There are loads of great ones out there so to help you decide we have narrowed it down to what we think are the ten best.   iPhone Happy Hours In true Irish style let the drinking commence with Happy Hours app for iPhone. It is [...]

Google first appeared in 1998. By that time it was the first search engine that used link metrics for rankings. But the first major update didn’t happen until 2000. From this day forward, it was an avalanche of small changes and big updates. The people from Google are doing all they can to always improve their search algorithm so that we, users, can get the best results and never be offered a spammy website. To [...]