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Complaining About Public Transport has Never Been so Easy!

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

Engagement, Reviews, Tools

This week saw the launch of a website that aims to unite people in their grumbling about problems about public transport, but with the intention of seeing these issues resolved. FixMyTransport is a website, in beta, that aims to flag up issues on our public transport system by way of crowdsourcing.

Users of the site can report problems or issues and upload them to the site. You can proactively gather support by sharing via Facebook, email and Twitter. However, those that spot that you’re highlighting the same problem as they have can ‘support,’ and also follow its progress. (more…)

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Are we Lost in Google Translation?

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

Apps, Reviews

Following on from my previous post in 2010, where I looked at the value of various apps in the market place, I thought now was a good time to reflect back – an eighth month review if you will.

My clear favourite was Google Translate, simply because it had a very tangible benefit for me on my travels – it helped me communicate my nut allergy to waiters of any nationality due to my inability to speak any language other than English and my lack of willing to learn any either. After some hairy situations in Morocco, where everything was cooked in nut oil in 2006, I rather melodramatically ruled out much of the world from my future travel plans. But then I downloaded the Google Translate App and I was pretty excited at the prospect of being able to communicate to waiters; this allowed me to eat, travel and still live, all with minimum fuss. (more…)

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Take Advantage of Google Related

Friday, August 26th, 2011

Google, Reviews, Tools

Google Related, the new toolbar add on for Chrome, appears at the bottom of your screen to make related suggestions. The toolbar, which appears across the web, suggests similar and related information to help you with your search query. As one example, I searched for restaurants in Leeds and visited Blackhouse Restaurant and Bar. Whilst browsing the website, a small bar appeared at the bottom of the page showing me a number of options from a map of the restaurant, four reviews, six related places and five website alternatives. (more…)

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Tool Review: SpyFu

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

PPC, Reviews, Tools

In my opinion, SpyFu is a great little tool for generating new keywords.

Your competitors have no doubt gone to great lengths to think of new keywords that they can use in their search advertising campaigns.  Imagine if you could see their keyword list?  SpyFu does exactly this. (more…)

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Edge – The Latest Design Tool from Adobe

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Reviews, Tools, Web Development

In the latest round of HTML5/CSS3 versus Flash, Adobe has released a preview of their new design tool Edge. It allows users to create animations using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript without knowing how to write the code.

It is currently available for a free 152 day trial, as they are requesting developers feedback, and it is a little buggy at times (I’ve crashed it three times this morning). It comes with basic drawing and text tools and has a timeline editor so you can animate shapes, positions, opacity, etc. (more…)

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