12 Attractive & (Sometimes) Usable Game Website Designs

Game website design is often maligned by designers interested in the usability of their interfaces, and for good reasons. A bunch of Flash menus and explosive animations don’t make a great website–not an easy to use one, not a fast-loading one, and most of the time, not even an attractive one. In this round-up, we’ve dug up 12 game website designs that we think are actually attractive–and in some cases, usable as well....

4 min · 726 words · Julie Mccormick

12 More Australian Startups to Keep Your Eye On

In our previous roundup of14 Australian Web Companies to Keep Your Eye On, we asked other startups from Australia to get in touch with us. Since then we’ve learned about startups we didn’t know existed and seen a lot of new ones appear. Here are 12 more Australian startups you should keep your eye on. 1. Noosbox Noosboxis a web app that uses the data in company email inboxes to help teams work together more effectively, allowing users to lodge issue reports, create leads, tag conversations and share with others from within Google Apps email inboxes....

5 min · 888 words · Michael Sellers

12 Seriously Tasty Apps for Foodies

Every day when using social media you’re likely to come across at least 10 examples of people sharing what they are eating or drinking. To many it sums up the trivial nature of social media and it’s not uncommon to here people saying “why would I care what somebody had for breakfast?”. Well it seems like lots of people do care and we wanted to share some of the best apps, websites and services that can help you engage with other foodies as well as sharing the amazing food you are making or eating....

7 min · 1341 words · James Thompson

12 US states call for Biden to ban combustion cars from 2035

Get a load of this. America is finally coming down hard on combustion engine vehicles. Governors of 12 US states are campaigning for President Biden to take a leaf out of California and Washington’s play book, and ban combustion engined cars by 2035. The states campaigning for the move are: California, New York, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington State, and Rhode Island. AsReuters points out, even though Biden hascommitted $174 billionto incentivize the uptake of electric vehicles in the US, and build supporting infrastructure, his plans do all but ban fossil fuel-powered passenger cars....

2 min · 374 words · Jason Goodman

1234 is the most common iPhone passcode, app developer reveals

New research by independentiOS developer Daniel Amitayhas provided an insight into the patterns of iPhone users when choosing a passcode, unsurprisingly revealing that the code “1234” is the most common amongst Apple smartphone owners. Amitay, creator of the iPhone security applicationBig Brother Camera Security, added a feature that would anonymously capture passcodes to unlock the app itself. Predicting that the passcodes used in the app’s setup screen would match that of the official iPhone passcode lock, the developer collated information from over 204,508 passcodes, revealing some interesting statistics....

2 min · 423 words · Sarah Ward
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