The jury is out on the Rudd government's plan to censor the internet of offensive material using a custom-built filter and a set of legislation.   The Australian government, led by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, wants to censor materials that are not available via traditional mediums, like television and movies. For example, child pornography, extreme violence, etc.   The internet community, as expected when they hear the word 'censorship', has gone crazy. &nb

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When websites began, they contained very little movement, if any at all. Now, with a program called ActionScript, programmers and web designers are able to add an unprecedented amount of movement via animation.

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Welcome to the new decade in web design!   In the last decade we witnessed new emergences in the world wide web. This new emergence not only marked newer and more innovative applications of the internet and its contents, it also opened up a whole new galaxy of trendy, stylish and useful designs.   And as the decade turns, I see the web design community predicting newer trends in the beginning of 'the teens'.   I have assessed other opinions and am happy to present my predict

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I can still remember when I was 6 years old, the hottest gaming console was the family computer; I could can hear my then-little friend screaming at me for taking the "spread" ammunition in Contra. Aside from the hundreds of hours spent in front of our then-black and white coloured TV, we formulated many strategies on how to beat the different stages as well as learned from some of our friends the "thirty lives" cheat on Contra.

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With this blog, I endeavour to introduce any beginners to two free tools - Google Analytics and Yahoo ! Web Analytics - that can be used to analyse the statistics of your website.   Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness.   Google Analytics can track visitors from all referrers, including search engines, display advertising, pay-per-click networks, email marketing and digital

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Attention programmers; a new open source programming language called Go has been launched by none other than those innovators at Google. Why?   Because no significant language has come to the fore in the last decade, while many changes have occurred on the web during that time. Google are known to prefer Python and Javascript, therefore Go is expected to resemble a combination of both, as well as its own flavour.   The video below is a one-hour long Google introduction on Go Progra

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Every owner wants to be at the top of every relevant search to their website. This is simply because nearly 80% of users, who search using Google, open the websites they see on first page of the results, and rarely venture into succeeding pages. So being on page 1 means that your website is on its way to attracting audience numbers.   This blog is a guide to help assist you to rise in Google rankings. Google is the search engine we will feature as it owns more than 90% of the Australian s

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The COMSCORE Australia social networking usage study (August 2009) shows an overwhelming graph of statistics.   A more than 1000% growth of Twitter over Facebook causes different reactions; some are happy to know that over 800,000 Aussies are now active on Twitter, while other consider this a typical figure for the later-released Twitter, which is still way behind the 6,000,000 Australian users of Facebook. While the first finding's reasons can be argued, the next finding cannot. That

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It has long been said that it takes two to tango. Web development is exactly like that. Web design cannot do it alone without backend support. But to a majority of users, website design has a big space in their consciousness; for them it is dependent on whether a certain site will be a success or a failure.   There is a sudden surge in demand for a beautifully made websites. Users don't want poor presentations anymore; they all like something else, something new to their eyes because they

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Developer tools are now rising allowing programmers to now choose software they are comfortable with to assist them during the development and testing process. I highlight some for you below.   Recently, I used a tool called PhoneGap, which combines a focus on pure JavaScript and HTML for phones.

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