Alex McFarlane - Web Developer

Concept for a take-away website in a full-screen widget, embeddable anywhere you can include embed code.This will not function in MySpace or Facebook, but it can detect if Fullscreen is available and respond with an alternate link. This could be combined with other technologies, so a directory of widget locations could ...

Babylon A.D. New HD Trailer from prisontv on Vimeo. Vimeo has a far superior design to that of YouTube, can not wait to try out some API's... http://www.vimeo.com/

A couple of days ago we posted screen shots of a new search interface being bucket tested by Google that lets users vote up or down on search results. The resulting interface was very Digg-like, and included a total vote count, etc. Today Adrian Pike, the CTO of startup Tatango, noticed ...

Facebook and MySpace, the two largest social networks, eagerly launched new iPhone applications last Friday. Both quickly shot up the top apps list. Apple has since turned off the download count feature, but Facebook is no. 7 on the free list, MySpace is no. 11. But while both applications are ...

Pandora’s internet radio has always been one of those sites that was really cool in concept, but too inconvenient to ever go mainstream. The service was long tied to computers only, and while it eventually expanded to special internet radios and some mobile phones, it still has ...

It appears that the beta for Facebook’s new user profiles is now live. To check out what your re-designed profile will look like, just head to www.new.facebook.com once logged into your account. This will not change your actual profile yet, but it will show you what your profile ...

Starting today Google has integrated results from Code Search as snippets in the main search results page. Code Search was launched by Google in October of 2005 as a seperate vertical search property. As the name suggests, Code Search indexes and parses source code on the web and provides users ...

Updated (Bottom) Like Last.fm? Want it on your iPhone or iPod touch? Pay a visit to Apple’s App Store [iTunes], and you can. Announced today, Last.fm’s mobile application for the iPhone and iPod touch is now officially available for download, either through the iTunes storefront for directly from the mobile ...

I’ve had my first iPhone for less than 24 hours now and I’m already addicted. I’ve downloaded and experimented with a bunch of apps and am pretty happy with them. But, I have to admit that there are still some apps I’d love to see. I’ve put together a list ...

Social media can be an incredible tool for your business, providing you with more customer insight, direct communication channels and the ability to measure the effectiveness of these conversations very closely. But as the proliferation of social media platforms grow, participating can turn into little more than a giant ...

Gmail has introduced a new privacy feature that will let users see how many computers their account is open on, and also allows them to sign-out remotely. Basic information is displayed as part of the page’s standard footer, and users looking for more detailed information can view a log ...

In this post, guest author Ryan Carson goes through some of the lessons learned from building a Web app in four days. Carson is the co-founder of Carsonified, a web shop in Bath, UK. They’ve built four web apps, created ThinkVitamin.com and run events like Future of Web Apps. ...

A nice desktop application for viewing Google Analytics, it would be better if you could view your whole account without having to create different profiles. http://www.aboutnico.be/index.php/google-analytics-air-beta-sign-up/

A useful tool for making long urls in to short urls. This would be useful for sending out log google maps links. http://tinyurl.com/

This is a nice plugin for displaying full screen video. It requires no install and is cross platform. It is featured on 007.com to view the full screen version of the Quantum Of Solice trailer. They seem to be doing allot of work with Blu-ray and sony. There is a ...

Well, not all of them. But the one you’ll very frequently encounter went something along these lines: a search engine likes text. Therefore, if you’re building a Flash website, its position on search engines will, by definition, suck. Not any longer. Google, Yahoo and Adobe have worked together on a technology ...