Craig Hamnett
Social Media Layabout
Design
frooly is here
Oct 12th
Well, in it’s pre pre alpha stage! – Frooly
I’ll be going through some of the tech stuff on here soon! :)
New Google Mail Favicon
Mar 4th
The ever changing Google Mail beta have released a noticable and fairly useful update to their little favicon.
I don’t know what it looks like with thousands of unread mail, maybe it just says “lots”… If someone could update me via a comment that would be much appreciated!
Redesign Looming
Apr 14th
In amongst finishing off a few client projects, I am drafting a redesign for this site… there’s a sneak peak here if you want to see how it’s coming along.
Twitter and Flickr will also be integrated into the new design, and maybe if I get serious about vlogging, I might have a bit of Qik or Bambuser integration, but that might be a long way off yet. If all that just went over your head then I’m glad because I did it on purpose (Because I’m mean, and the only way a geek can have fun is to bamboozle people with stupid phrases.)
Twitter is a short blogging platform (140 chars) used to update your status. Very much like your Facebook status, which is why mine are integrated.
Flickr is a photo publishing service, where I keep the majority of my photos organised. What I like about Flickr is that there is a great community of people, and a great platform to get your photos more widely recognised. There are thousands of groups of enthusiastic people, all with one common interest, photography, and some with niche interests such as wildlife or photos of UFO’s.
Qik and Bambuser are essentially the same. They are a live video streaming service which you can do straight from your mobile phone. However, you best make sure you have a WiFi phone otherwise you might get hit with a £250 phone bill (It’s happened once, and never again!)
Look out for the new design in a couple of weeks time!
Threadless Newsletters
Mar 17th
I absolutely hate Threadless Newsletters because I love Threadless! Damn them. They sent out a newsletter saying that they have extended their sale and within 15 minutes I had bought 1 t-shirt for myself and 1 for my girl!
Two t-shirts each $10, and $8 for the shipping. Coming to a grand total of £14! With exchange rates like I love the demise of the American Dollar because it means that I get original t-shirts which very few people in the UK wear. If you are from the UK, don’t check out Threadless because that means that I will be slightly less cool as you will end up buying something from their awesome range!