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A few days ago I had the pleasure of attending a local “digital creative” meetup B&Wmeet. It’s held at the Slug and Lettuce, a national pub chain in the UK. A number of us wanted food before the event, and I noticed an offer on their website of 25% off food if you sign up [...]

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Screenshots of different Apple devices displaying the Hicksdesign website

The web can be flexible and adaptive but more often than not sites are rigid and static. Responsive web design is a group of techniques that bring us closer to writing once and deploying everywhere.

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Motorola Xoom

Google announced that it is set to acquire Motorola Mobility for a staggering $12.5 billion, it seems the model of controlling the hardware as well as the software has finally come out as dominant.

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ie-crash

Web developers in general, do not like IE6. Even it’s maker, Microsoft, aren’t too fond of it anymore, and who can blame them? Shockingly Big IE6 Warning is a Wordpress plugin that allows you to either warn users of IE6, or just crash the browser.

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Android Market

After about a day’s worth of testing, I’ve come to the conclusion that Market 3.0.26 is akin to a very pretty woman. A very pretty woman that will sometimes lie to you, speak to you in a language you don’t know, and even outright break down in front of you.

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GoogleSearch

Hello there internet user. The majority of people reading this will be doing so via this “internet” thing. Now that’s out the way… Most of us internet people use Google, probably several times a day, correct? Pretty sure there are a few MORE features of the Google search box that you don’t know.

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