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Simple Image Resizing for the web
Posted by Peter Roome on September 07, 2010
Take me straight to the tutorial!
THE PROBLEM:
As you’d expect, here at Kyan, we work with vast quantities of images on a daily basis. It can therefore be quite easy to take for granted the knowledge we have acquired as a result.
Consider this with the continually falling prices and the ever growing specification lists of digital cameras and we find ourselves with a small/large problem; clients with giant photos, both in terms of dimensions and file size, that they find difficult to upload to the web. It’s not unheard of to download an image straight from a digital camera that exceeds 10mb.
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It's difficult to code without power
Posted by Robin Whittleton on August 10, 2010
I’m currently typing this post on my iPhone as the power on Guildford High Street is dead again. Being a web company has many advantages but coping with power loss isn’t one of them, as the silent (apart from the beeping UPS) testifies. Luckily our servers have enough power to shutdown gracefully and automatically, but desktop computers don’t like the lack of power and laptops and ipads lose connection when the switch goes down too.
Coping strategies so far have been an office wide spring clean, the designers hauling out the HB pencils again, and a general moaning from the developers who don’t have laptops and a current git repository clone.
Anyone got any tips on working around power loss? Ideas for web related work that can be done with a pen and paper and iPad with no net connection?
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Guildford to Barcelona Charity Cycle Ride, 11th August 2010
Posted by Peter Roome on August 04, 2010
Does anyone else get seriously bored when they go on holiday in the summer and just sit on the beach and do nothing for a week? Well this year it stops. Joel and myself (Pete) have taken it upon ourselves to do something a bit different this summer, we have decided to cycle to Barcelona from Guildford and raise some money in the process.
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Free Wifi in Guildford
Posted by Peter Roome on August 03, 2010
I was asked by a friend today if I could recommend any bars/restaurants/cafés in Guildford where she could access free WiFi on her laptop. Besides Giraffe I wasn’t aware of anywhere else in town so I posted the question to Yammer in the office and received a number of helpful responses. It seems that Guildford has a reasonable selection of access points; so it made sense to collect them all on a single map.
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Beware the tabnapper
Posted by Paul Sturgess on May 26, 2010
There’s a new kind of phishing attack around that’s ready to dupe unsuspecting web users into handing over their precious login credentials.