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I Am Everyone

Last month, Orange in the UK started an advertising campaign titled ‘I Am Everyone’ with a number of outdoor print ads and a television ad.

Interestingly, Orange didn’t publish a website url with their campaign, instead Orange issued the call to action, ’search for i am online’ with both their print and television advertisements.  (more…)

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  • Demand Five

    Demand Five

    Je ne suis pas impressionné…

    Every since Neighbors started airing on FIve I’ve started watching more and more of the channel.  I find that watching House in the early afternoon really chills me out and in the evenings there is often a good documentary or film showing.  However as I often forget about the channel, I have found myself missing shows and wishing for a Video On Demand service, one not dissimilar to BBC iPlayer or the offerings from Channel 4 and ITV. (more…)

    Four On Demand Service not for Mac

    The BBC has been getting a hard time recently due to no iPlayer downloads for mac. But at least they have SOMETHING. The good people over at ITV and C4 (pictured) have nothing, not even streaming content for us Mac users.

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  • Sam Brown opens RSS feeds

    Sam Brown's Website

    Sam Brown is a web designer and developer from Edinburgh. Not only does he live in the same town as myself and shares the surname ‘Brown’ with me, he is also cool (like me).

    I can’t quite remember how I found his personal blog but I have and its really neat in terms of content and layout. As Sam as recently updated his site, I thought I’d spend a few moments explaining why I like this site so much.

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  • Gifts for Engineers

    Gifts for Engineers

    Do you know an engineer? Does that engineer need a gift? If you answered ‘yes’ to both these questions (or even just the first one), GiftsForEngineers.com is for you!

    Just before Christmas, I was continuing my quest to buy my friends the most amazing gifts ever. One of my friends is studying Civil Engineering at Glasgow and I was truly stumped as what to get her. In my moment of desperation, I turned to Google and entered the most inspired search string, ‘gifts+for+engineers’ and, as if by divine intervention, I discovered the above site.

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