Hyundai has done a couple brilliant Top Gear spoofs – “Top Deer”. The detail in the videos are great. Very funny!!! GENIUS!
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Brilliant Top Gear spoofs
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Twitter followers overload!!
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Yesterday when I woke up I found out that I had about 20 new followers in about an hour. Normally it would take me at least a week to get that many new followers (or even longer). In the end during the whole of 25th March I had about 120 new followers.
It turns out that was mentioned in an article on Freelance Switch. It was an article aimed at anyone new to Twitter and some people to follower – “50 Freelance Followers on Twitter“. I was listed under the Designed & Developers and since my twitter username starts with “a” it was right near the top 
Thanks Freelance Switch!!
If you want to follow me go to my Twitter page and click follow – @andrewyee.
iPhone OS 3.0
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Apple presented the next major update to the operating system running in the iPhone. Even though I dont have an iPhone (want one though!) this is still pretty big tech news. Although, the iPhone is a fantastic device its certainly not perfect! One of the main things lots of people wants was Copy and Paste. This is now in it! Personally I think the iPhone (and iPod Touch – which I have) could also do with supporting Flash – still not happening 
Anyway, the new version of the iPhone software (3.0) isnt out yet (out in the summer) but in a presentation they gave details of all the new features etc. It looks pretty good!! You can read more about it on the Apple site including watching the actual presentation (as I type this it is not online yet). Some key features:
- Search your iPhone
- Cut, copy, and paste
- Send photos, contacts, audio files, and location via MMS (only in iPhone 3G)
- Read and compose email and text messages in landscape
There is a more details summary list of the new features on thenextweb.com.
Bring down IE6: a .net magazine campaign
Friday, March 13th, 2009IE6 really shouldnt be around. Its getting old and just isnt standards complient!! We also now pretty much have IE8. The problem is that IE7/8 is not supported on Windows 2000 so that means most users of IE6 are business users.
The problem with IE6 still hanging around is that clients pressure web designers/developers to get sites working in IE6 and having to use various hacks and tweaks. It wastes time and money!! Microsoft need to sort it and get IE7 working on Windows 2000 – and get IE6 to automatically update to IE7 (or 
or even better suggest Firefox!!
Clients pressure designers to ‘force’ sites to work in IE6, and designers, not wanting to lose business, comply, using hacks and workarounds. This wastes time and money. Microsoft needs to fix this, designers need to unite, and we all need to move on.
Heres a quote from Jeff Zeldman, standards guru:
“IE6 is the new Netscape 4. The hacks needed to support IE6 are increasingly viewed as excess freight. Like Netscape 4 in 2000, IE6 is perceived to be holding back the web.”
Twestival
Friday, February 13th, 2009I went to the Twestival charity event in Manchester tonight AKA MancTwester. The event was held in The Living Room. All proceeds went to the charity Charity:Water. The charity auction includes items such as a Wii, ipod touch, champagne meal and “money cant buy items” such as a “journalist for the day” with the Manchester Evening News.
Shockingly, in the year 2009, 1.1 billion people on the planet don’t have access to safe, clean drinking water. That’s one in six of us. At the last count Manchester Twestival raised £3,500!!
If you dont Twestival is organized 100% by volunteers in cities around the world and 100% of the money raised from these events will go directly to support charity: water projects. Some of the cities holding Twestival events include Hong Kong, Sydney, Dublin and New York. It all started back in September 2008 when a group of Twitterers based in London decided to organise an event where the local Twitter community could socialise offline, meet the people behind the avatars, have a few drinks and raise money for a homeless charity. Most of the event was organised in under 2 weeks via Twitter and the combined talent and financial support of the local “Twittersphere”. The Manchester Twestival event was organised by Katie Moffat (@katierocket)
I took a few photos which are on Flickr. You can read more about it on the MEN blog and also a video with Katie.
