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Italian IT Engineering student Danny Benedettelli has built a two part solution to automatically solve that 80’s puzzle sensation the RUBIK’S CUBE.

 

Now we’re not saying that WD is going to win a Web 2.0 design award, but our layout is clean and simple, content is orderly and easy to find. WD scales well across different monitor widths, and plays nicely with modern browsers.  All in all, we like to think that WD is a "nice" site to visit.  Then you come across sites out there like these:

 

 

 

This is actually one time that I recommend you view the sites using the INTERNET EXPLORER browser in order to get the full effect of the awfulness. I tried it with Firefox, and then again with Internet Explorer. It’s even MORE of an experience.  Try it for yourself.

 

Horse Rentals Virginia

 

 

 

Japanese Seizure Robots

 

 

 

Even free ugly… is still ugly.

 

This guy should ask for a refund from his X dealer. Clearly a bad batch.

 

 

Do you have examples of TRULY awful website designs. Let us know. Send a link to wdcontent@timdotnet.net or leave a comment.

 

 

Inkjet printers that print on the label-side of CD/DVD’s are the norm these days. As are the special printable discs to use with them. So it’s only natural that creative people will get creative and come up with some clever and artistic ideas to use all that nice white printable space. Beside just printing the boring details of what’s on the disc.. or that DVD cover you downloaded, for that movie you certainly did NOT download. 

 

The most over-hyped, over anticipated, over the hill… I’m over it already, mobile phone in history is due for release into the wild this Friday 29th June in the USA. Never before in tech-gadget history has so much been rumoured, speculated, written and talked about a device that is not even available for sale yet.  Since it’s announcement at MacWorld in January 2007, the Apple Inc share price has risen over 30%, mostly due to the promise of the mystical, magical, mythical iPhone.

 

I‘m not going to add too much to the melting pot here at WD.  As a mobile phone, the iPhone is overpriced and uses the old-hat 2.5G mobile network. The largest mobile phone markets in the world have all long since moved up to 3G technology. (Europe, Asia, Australia).  As a portable consumer device that plays videos and music (iPod) it shows extreme promise of things to come. As a smart-phone portable computing internet device…  we’ll wait and see how the touch screen interface translates across to that realm of user happiness.

 

Whether you like it or not, make no mistake… You WILL be hearing lots about this phone, so you need to be informed and make up your own mind about it’s worthiness.  Click the picture to open the page and play the video.  Or click this link to download the full-screen version (175MB).

 

 

BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP… That should be the thought running through your mind everyday if you own a computer. If your not doing it now, then you will. I’m not going to be too preachy here because I believe that the critical importance of GOOD data back is one of those things in life that has to be learnt, rather than taught. People only implement a solid data backup solution AFTER they have lost critical data at some point in their lives. I know that’s what happened to me many years ago.

 

Loosing mission critical data at some point in your life is not a matter of IF, but WHEN.  If it’s already happened to you, then you know the pain and loss involved. You’ve just lost years worth of irreplaceable digital photographs, or weeks worth of school assignments, or the last four years of your company finicial records and employee data, or ALL of the above if it’s all on the one machine. You already know that when it  happens, you would pay just about anything to have that data back.  Unfortunately this is more than often not possible. And in cases where it is possible, recovery requires the services of specialised data recovery firms, using highly specialist equipment, working in clean-rooms, to recover the data. This level of service will typically cost several thousand dollars just for them to take a look and give you an assessment. Then add many many thousands more to actually recover your data.

 

ENTER DROBO.

 

Drobo is the first consumer device of it’s kind to hit the market and has the potential to bring affordable enterprise level data security to the home user. Despite it’s name, Drobo is not a robot of any kind. It won’t walk around your computer desk searching for errant 1’s and 0’s. It’s just a box. But a very useful and clever box. I won’t explain it all here because the video does a much better job.

 

 

The good folk from Redmond who just finished shipping Windows Vista have today revealed details of a new computing concept to replace the traditional desk bound computers, and even the mobile and convenient laptops. Simply called SURFACE I have to say it looks very awesome and I can see Apple Inc just saying "Damn, I wish WE invented that first"

 

 

 

To best see what it’s all about you need to watch the three videos over on the the SURFACE website.  There are several moments, esp in the second two, that make you go "WOW… that is just extremely cool…  I want it NOW !!!" 

 

And if you feel the burning urge to be just like Tom Cruise in Minoritory Report, you can indeed buy it now for a lazy USD$10,000. Expect to see units appearing in "public spaces" towards the end of 2007. Places like shops, restaurants, bars etc. Very Cool…

 

 

Unless you’ve ever registered an internet domain name it unlikely you’ve ever come across ICANN. They’re the body charged with overseeing the hand out of internet domain names in the TLD’s of .com, .net, .org etc…  Whenever you register a domain name in one of these TLD’s you pay an ICANN fee as part of the domain registration process. No biggie. It’s not much money. As you’re about to find out.

 

So anyway, I was over at my favourite domain register GoDaddy last week registering a couple of domains and I noticed there was a CREDIT on my account for USD$0.09…   nine whole cents. 

 

    

 

Turns out that there was some changes to the ICANN fees and I got back three cents for each effected domain I have registered.  Now I did think about investment strategies for some time.  I called my broker.  I called Donald Trump.  I called George Bush. They all said the same thing.  "Boy… you’ve got to SPEND money to MAKE money…"  So as you can see, I immediately reinvested the USD$0.09 refund on the purchase of a new domain for a new site I’m working on. 

Thanks GoDaddy.  Thanks ICANN.

You’ve made it all possible…

 

With PC’s becoming more powerful and MUCH cheaper day-by-day, we all face the problem of what to do with the old boat-anchor that takes forever to boot up and even longer to get anything done.  You could just chuck it out on the footpath and let urban-nature take it’s course. Or you could get some creative ideas from todays video.

 

 

A new feature at WD is the addition of POLLS.

These will appear in the top right section of the site.

There may be just one poll, there maybe more.

It depends what’s on our minds here at WD.

 

 

 

Voting is simple. Just click your selection and press VOTE. 

Most WD-POLLS will run for one week. 

Come and Join The Fun…  

 

 

You may have noticed the NEW LOOK we’ve added to WIGGUM DAILY.

 

The changes are very fresh, the paint is still drying, and a team of trained monkeys is working around the clock to roam the site and fix anything that "broke" during the change over. For now, many existing articles and posts may look a bit "funny" or NQR.  Where needed these will be mended over time. *UPDATE* All issues now appear to have been resolved.

 

In addition to the new look, we are adding some NEW FEATURES to the site. For the most part these will live over on the right hand site. So keep an eye out when you visit over the coming weeks for new and interesting things to play with.

 

And best of all, shiny NEW CONTENT will continue to flow during the site upgrade 

 

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