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Mars Attacks!

Paul — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:42:02 +0000

Get your Firefox…

Fred — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:18:34 +0000

…here.

Firefox download day is 17th June. That’s Tuesday, in case you’re wondering.

To date, there’s around 1,2m people in the mix. Get yours.

Firefox attempts to set one-day download record

Fred — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:20:55 +0000

I reckon this is a good cause: Firefox Download Day. If you’re still on Internet Explorer, well, sort yourself out. This is your chance for redemption.

I just hope that they have some pretty robust servers. And a techie or two on standby.

I’m apparently number 531 in South Africa.

iPhone Earth demo

Fred — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:53:34 +0000

Saw this on TechCrunch; it’s a demo of iPhone Earth.

Interesting, especially since the iPhone is now going to be available across all our fellow developing countries*.

* Apple pretty much considers this as any country other than USA.

Win a Canon Digital Rebel XT 8MP Digital SLR

Paul — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:19:49 +0000

So it’s competition time over at Smashing Magazine again and this time round you can win yourself a fancy Canon DSLR.

Unleash the creative within and go out this weekend and take some pictures of all the lovely textures we can find just about anywhere. Your efforts might make you the proud new owner of a Canon Digital Rebel XT, but hurry because entries close 21st May! Everyone has an equal chance to win since the judging will be completely random and not skill based.

We over here at the Heavy Chef absolutely love Smashing Magazine and have already submitted our entries. Good Luck and happy shooting.

Twitter

Fred — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:08:40 +0000

I have finally given in.

After resisting for some time now, The Maven has convinced me to get with the program. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Mike, you’re next…

And you thought there was only MySpace and Facebook?

Fred — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:34:57 +0000

Someone was writing about the fact that Facebook had reached a plateau, and we must look to Twitter for the next big wave of social interaction. Check out this list that Compete.com released. Heard of Fubar? Well, you will. Take a gander at the growth in the last column…

Harsh Lesson to be Learnt by Air France

Mike — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:45:30 +0000

In this time of free worldwide communication over the internet, all businesses need to ensure their customer service is first class. Gone are the days when people accepted poor/mediocre service. Now if someone receives awful service it is posted on the internet and shared to the world.

Last week friends were unfortunate to fly Air France and experienced Air France’s incapability of running an airline first hand. At present a letter is on its way to the Air France Head Office because our matter could not be dealt with over the phone or via email. In the mean time we have started to blog about the experience, and found our friends are not alone. There is a blog called aviodairfrance.blogspot.com (where hopefully they will post our story), and if you type in “Air France blog” into Google the top spot is someones personal blog with 40 comments of other disgruntled passengers.

I have decided if no action is taken by Air France, it will be my personal mission to get these blog posts number 1 in Google for the keyword “Air France”.

So just remember to treat your customers well - because they have power!

Nicola

Web marketing and usability

Mike — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:38:18 +0000

Once again, Smashing Magazine have come up with a winner. This latest article is all about usability, and outlines things to watch out for when creating a website.

Most people relate web marketing as SEO or PPC, but we believe that the site itself has a huge part to play once traffic has been directed to it. What happens when the visitors gets to the site and is confronted with a host of barriers?

At World Wide Creative, we pride ourselves on the usability of the sites we create, and is something we aim to become the best at the world at. This list is a good start. Check the article out here.

- Fred

The death of Gmail

Mike — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:13:06 +0000

I know there are quite a few people who read Joel on Software, a blog written by a programmer who used to work for Microsoft. Joel is a legend, an iconoclastic voice that assails any mainstream dumbass lemming-like thinking. If you’re in IT, web development, or even web marketing, you should add him to your feedreader. Here’s an excerpt from a recent post, predicting the death of Gmail.

But then, while youre sitting on your googlechair in the googleplex sipping googleccinos and feeling smuggy smug smug smug, new versions of the browsers come out that support cached, compiled JavaScript.

And Gmail becomes a legacy. The WordPerfect of Email. And youll tell your children how excited you were to get 2GB to store email, and theyll laugh at you. Their nail polish has more than 2GB.

Read the article here.

- Fred