Sokudo Web Design

We are now nearing completion of a large Formula One based web project. The project is a Formula One fans social network with the usual networking features.
We are looking to launch the site towards the end of January but before we do we’d like to get a few users registered and to use the sites facilities and services. If you are interested please email your username, Your Twitter username (if you have one), and if you would like your tweets to be publicly displayed on the site. We will then email you back with a password and you are ready to go.
Thanks in advanced for everyone who signs up. Please email beta@globalgp.net

Almost two years ago posts were made in forums all over the web that the long awaited arrival of Google Tasks was “imminant”. Still to this day nothing has arrived from Google. There are plenty of third party plugin’s to enable tasks in both Google Calendar and Gmail but im still waiting (along with a few million others) for Google to add tasks to their calendar.
Does anyone know if there is any progess on this?

Apple Mac has announced that a large percentage of their recent sales have been from frustrated Windows Vista users who are looking for a stable platform.

Since its release, Vista has suffered from security and stability issues making it a backwards step from Windows XP. The recently released service pack 2 has solved some of these issues though.

It makes me wonder why these people have gone straight to Mac from Windows. In half an hour they could have a very stable and productive Linux Ubuntu running on their systems and they don’t have to go out and buy a pricey Mac machine.

Check out my new portfolio which is now part of the site. The page features all of my latest projects and uses the lightbox script for the image effects.

View my portfolio here

Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee wants to see a truth rating hit the net in the near future. This comes off the back of the Large Hadron Collider experiment which was rumoured to be able to create black holes and swallow up the universe, a comment that was invented and spread on the net.

“On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable…A sort of conspiracy theory of sorts and which you can imagine spreading to thousands of people and being deeply damaging.”

Berners-Lee believed a rating was needed and that it should be policed by various people and organisations. His comments came at the launch of his new foundation the World Wide Web Foundation, aimed at putting the web all over the globe.

A new open source web browser hits cyber space today. Web giants Google are embarking on a new adventure in to the web browser market with Google Chrome. Already filled with Internet Explorer and another open source browser Firefox, Google Chrome has a lot of competition.

The browser released today is only in beta and is only available for Windows users. Apparently a Mac and Linux version are to follow soon.

One of the key features of this web browser is the ability to use the address bar as a search box meaning you should never have to type a full web address.

One of the key issues to tackle when finishing a web site is how your site looks in different browsers. Hopefully chrome will be W3C friendly.

Download your copy here

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 might still be only in beta but some people are already refering to it as the new “porn browser”. IE8 has a stelth feature which allows you to browse the net anonomously without collecting your personal data, both on the net and your own machine.

Microsoft, rather innocently, say that the feature could be used to book a suprise trip or buying a gift for a loved one without being found out.

It will take something special to convert the large army of Firefox users around the web. Let us know what browser you use and if you use IE8.

Kompozer is a free open source html editor which can be used on PC, MAC and Linux. It is based on Nvu, a buggy editor with similar features. Kompozer is supposed to be a bug fix release, but as I found the bugs are clear and present.

Coding your page using the source tab and then previewing it is the biggest headache. When you return to the source tab either your latest changes have not been saved or your code has been formatted in a totally different way.

I was given the task of making a simple text only holding page (two minute job) so I thought it would be a good opportunity to give Kompozer a whirl. The changes just were not being regconised, and the code reformatting was just a needless headache.

It really is a massive shame as Kompozer could be an awesome piece of software. There are a dozen or so extensions floating around the net which add all forms of functionability. I will be keeping my eye on the progress of this software tp snap it up when it becomes usable. Do you use Kompozer? Let me know what you think.

Gordon Browns new web site, Number 10 TV, has had a pretty sorry launch. Users were greeted with the dreaded 404 error message.
According to Downing Street this is “what happens when you launch a new site”…Is it really?!

On Septembers edition of Linux Format Magazine the new Opensuse 11 features on the cover disk. Among the new features are KDE 4 - The latest in Linux Desktop Management, and a new faster package management system.
I tried the live mode off the CD which worked quite nicely. Part of the new KDE 4 is the ability to add “Plasmoids” which are basically desktop plugins similar to Google Desktop. Adding more than two of these to my desktop caused multiple errors closing all programs, but this could possibly have been solved by installing directly on to my hard drive.
The installation is supposedly “one click” but I could not get the gist of it (still a newbe). This really stopped me from going any further with Opensuse, but the general feel was that KDE4 needs a bit of work but im sure installing on to a drive would solve most of the problems. Using Opensuse 11? Let me know.