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Crunch time for Apple at WWDC – Is Innovation Still Alive?
3 min read Apple has a lot riding on WWDC. Shares are down 17%, but can Apple afford to become driven by obsessing over its share price?
James Barnes
June 10, 2013
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Ditch The Shackles – The WYSIWYG Editor!
2 min read Sometimes the easiest solution isn’t the best, but many developers start their career thinking otherwise. StatusCake’s James tells us why.
James Barnes
May 17, 2013
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Facebook Likes Don’t Save Lives
2 min read On this page we cover how UNICEF hits out with an advertising campaign slamming how internet users interact with its social media messaging.
James Barnes
May 9, 2013
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Pay to Message Your Favourite Celebrity on Facebook
2 min read UK Facebook users have access to the same US feature that allows them to pay to send messages to users they can’t otherwise connect with!
James Barnes
April 8, 2013
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StatusCake’s Top 10 Technology Blogs – How Do You Start Your Day?
3 min read How do you find the best information on technology news and reviews? We’ve asked our team – here are the top 10!
James Barnes
March 25, 2013
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#Love Hastags? FaceBook Thinks the Same
2 min read Although the “#” is synonymous with Twitter, it’s also used by Instagram and Google+ and Facebook. Read about Facebook’s use of hashtags.
James Barnes
March 15, 2013
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Why Only Having 140 Characters is a Good Thing
3 min read See why Twitter’s former 140 character limit was a positive thing, and how being concise conveys your message most effectively.
James Barnes
March 12, 2013
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Google Glass – The All-Seeing, Every-Recording Eye
3 min read So surely the ability to simply record content can’t be the issue for privacy advocates? Nor surely does it stack up to say that when someone records on the smart phone it’s more “obvious” – you can spot who is filming you. I’m not sure that anyone wearing Google Glass is going to blend into the background – in the short term at least.
James Barnes
March 11, 2013
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Web Font For Design Mockups
< 1 min read The font is inspired by work created over at BlockFont but makes improvements to the block width meaning the fake-text is a much better representation of actual text (without being actually text!). Along with the standard Redacted block text form the font set also includes a script style and a bold script style.
James Barnes
March 2, 2013
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Protect Your Website from Malware and Viruses with SafeAlert from StatusCake.com
2 min read Launched today, SafeAlert from StatusCake.com is a new feature which protects your website against malware and viruses. This new feature is free for anyone with a paid StatusCake website monitoring account.
James Barnes
September 24, 2012
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StatusCake Launches New Website Monitoring Features
2 min read How status cake has improved its monitoring features to help you keep website downtime to an absolute minimum.
James Barnes
September 24, 2012
100% Uptime! Are Service Level Agreements Really worth the Paper They’re Written on?
2 min read At first glance 100% uptime may seem like an amazing promise. After all as we’ve seen in some of our blog posts, the cost of your website going down can be catastrophic to your revenues as well as your reputation. This week one of North America’s hosting companies announced that it was launching a service
James Barnes
September 23, 2012