American teen, Jennie Lamere, has put an end to all that in her new award-winning plugin, “Twivo”, that blocks plot spoilers by using pre-programmed keywords to hide the content.

Women in coding, watch out! She came up with the idea the night before the competition and it only took her 10 hours and 150 lines of code to complete. Since her victory at the TVnext Hack event, she’s become something of a poster girl, in an attempt to get more women interested in code. Read more here:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22464364

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The campaign is a set of 3 videos, commissioned by Dorset NHS, Dorset HealthWatch and Bournemouth University, intending to encourage people to be more open about mental health. The other two videos are here: http://bit.ly/12PlSMS and here:http://bit.ly/10mmWai

We had loads of fun meeting the people who took part in the filming earlier this year – their stories gave us an incredibly strong and compelling message to work with.

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“It’s estimated that by the end of 2013 most people will be accessing websites and web services from mobile devices rather than desktop pcs or laptops.”

– Google 2013

So this begs the question, are you ready for mobile?

In today’s ever expanding mobile marketplace, decreased living space and remote working, people are ditching their heavy laptops and cumbersome desktop computers in favour of cloud storage and tiny mobiles and tablets. It’s not surprising though, when we look at the figures below:

• 81% use their mobile device to browse the internet
• 50% of mobile product searches lead to a purchase
• More than 95% of smart phone users have searched for local information
• 61% of mobile users call the businesses they find online
• 59% will visit the location of the business
• 90% of these people will act within 24 hours

Customers are wanting to access the information they’re after immediately. They want it in seconds, not minutes. If your website is not mobile ready, customers simply press the ‘back’ button and visit your competitors instead.

Your website may be viewable on mobile devices but this doesn’t necessarily mean that it is mobile ready. Mobile sites are specially designed to work with all types of mobile devices. As a business owner, you should offer a dedicated or fully optimised experience, to ensure you facilitate the best environment to maximise your sales.

If you want to do a quick test, ask yourself the following questions about your businesses website:

• Is your website compatible and viewable on all types of mobile devices?
• Is your navigation simple & easy to use (and what about for touch screens)?
• Does your website load in less than 8 seconds on a mobile device?
• Are your contact details easily viewable on every page?
• Is your website built on a responsive html5 framework?
• Can the mobile user quickly find your number to contact you by phone?

If you answered no to any of those questions, you should seriously consider updating your website for mobile. It is no longer enough just to have a website, it must be mobile-ready. As a smart business owner you must go where the people are – and the people are going mobile.

If you would like a free mobile website review, contact us today on 0800 6128 918 or email hello@dorsetcreative.co.uk

Here are some more interesting facts! (my favourite is 39% use their smartphone in the bathroom):

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Read more here: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/news/a477323/ios-7-design-will-be-very-flat-and-resemble-windows-phone-says-report.html

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Come and hear us talk digital on 10th June 2013! We’re confirmed speakers at Bournemouth University’s Festival of Learning.

If you’d like to find out what’s new in the digital arena, get your tickets here (before they run out!): http://etourisminnovations.eventbrite.co.uk/

The event will be chaired by Professor Dimitrios Buhalis and we’ll be speaking alongside fantastic peers in the industry, as well as some leading researchers. Well worth a visit (- bring plenty of business cards!)

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It was like Christmas morning when I received my invitation to participate in the Alpha Program. I quickly installed the software on a couple of machines and it’s as quick as that – files flying through the router.

It’s extremely secure too, according to BitTorrent who say,

“BitTorrent Sync synchronizes your files using a peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol. The devices you setup to sync are connected directly using UDP, NAT traversal, UPnP port mapping, and a relay server. If your devices are on the same local network, BitTorrent Sync will use your LAN for faster synchronization. For better security, all the traffic between devices is encrypted with AES cypher and a 256-bit key created on the base of a Secret – a random string (32 characters or more) that is unique for every folder.”

Its simple software that just works! If I were you, I’d check out the Alpha program before they start charging fees for this service.

And even after I thought all of my dreams had come true, there’s more… You can also use this on your Mac, Linux and even your *drumroll*… NAS device. One word: SWEEEEEEET!

In our video production service, we are creating very large files. This software has been specifically designed for large files like ours. It enables the seamless transfer of these files between our video editors on our film projects. What a huge bonus to be able to share and collaborate across our teams by using automatically-updating files on all of our machines.

Excellent release, thank you BitTorrent.

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Google Street View Hyperlapse from Teehan+Lax Labs on Vimeo.

You can create your own Hyperlapse here:http://hyperlapse.tllabs.io/

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Check it out: http://mashable.com/2013/04/20/kickstarter-films/

Perhaps Kickstarter is your one-way ticket to success?

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