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  • Site Optimization.

    Due to a number of readers contacting us over extremely slow load times regarding our main URL – RazorianFly.com – we recently set out to fix the issue by fully optimizing the front page.

    Find out how we did .. (more…)

  • Microsoft airs ‘I’m a PC’ Ad – It actually makes sense! – [Briefly]

    Microsoft’s 300M ad campaign to fight back from Apple’s ‘Get a Mac‘ ads finally made sense yesterday, when they aired the third in the series, ‘Im a PC’. Unlike the first two episodes in the series, Microsoft is now pushing the right message – People who use PCs are not, dull, boring, uneducated stereotypical users, they’re human, and some of them successful humans at that.

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  • Ive may have designed the iPod, but he certainly didn’t invent it.

    Among the hype of the Let’s rock event, it seems the world may have been thinking about the future of the iPod, without actually questioning where it came from originally … (more…)

  • WAUs Goes v2.0, Real-time Stats Now Available – [Updated]

    [Update @ 22.15pm]

    We’re currently surveying the impact that public stats have on the load time of the main URL and other pages of RazorianFly. During this time we may pull the stats feature(s) completely to test difference in load speed(s) … (more…)

  • RazorianFly on: Digg – [Updated]

    [Update 20.09.08 @ 22.15pm]

    The Digg Badge now available on bottom right of each post thanks to some clever CSS coding! – Clicking ‘Digg’ will immediately Digg the article on Digg.com, and after an article has been Dugg by you or someone else, the ‘yellow’ part of the plugin will report back how many ‘Diggs’ that post has had. We hope you use it!

    [Update @ 22.03pm]

    Digg Badge now available on bottom of each post. Were currently working on aligning the plugin to sit on the bottom right corner. If you know how to align objects using CSS, or think you can help us out, please contact Chris immediately. Cheers.

    Original Article:

    We thought we’d join in on the fun of one of the biggest social bookmarking site on the web to date … just for laughs … (more…)

  • Music to take note of: Injection by Hans Zimmer

    I was watching Mission Impossible 2 last night on ITV 2, and noticed a piece of music I really, really liked. It’s so haunting, that if you fail to be moved by it, your obviously not human, it’s stunning …

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  • Sarbanes-Oxley: Required Charge for New Feature Additons, yet ‘Genius’ is Free. Eh? – [Briefly]

    Since the introduction of iPod touch and the 1.1.3 January Software Update, it’s apparent Apple will now slap a charge on any software which includes new features. Ok – I get that, the work goes in, something has to come out – you may disagree – I went through a spell of doing just that, but the recent 2.1 update was free for iPod touch users, and it included a pretty huge feature addition.

    Genius … (more…)