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YouTube

You can no longer turn off “Related Videos” when embedding a video from YouTube

According to their official statement, YouTube feels “Titles, channel information, and related videos are an important part of YouTube’s core user experience, and these changes help to make the YouTube viewing experience consistent across different platforms”.

So, YouTube considers related videos an important part of their core experience and that enabling related videos on embedded clips maintains “consistency”.

Tom Furmanski23rd July 2019
Emoji

Apple Reveals New Emojis for World Emoji Day 2019 ⭐🎉

Apple has shown its new emoji collection for 2019 for the first time, in celebration of World Emoji Day. Approved earlier this year by the Unicode Consortium, the 2019 updates include a number of popular additions such as a flamingo, waffle, and sari.

Chris Grant17th July 2019
Events

A fun and successful day at the Southwest Business Expo

At the last minute, well, a week before the event, we decided to exhibit at the Southwest Business Expo at the Steam Museum, Swindon. The event was a great success, we spoke with a whole host of different people representing a diverse range of businesses in Wiltshire and further afield.

Chris Grant8th July 2019
Bad Design

What are Dark Patterns and what do they have to do with websites?

Dark Patterns are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn’t mean to, like buying or signing up for something. This article covers some of the basics and explains why using Dark Patterns on your website is a guaranteed way to lose visitors and destroy trust in your brand.

Chris Grant8th July 2019
Microsoft 365

The new Outlook on the web is coming, with a modern design, and new features

Microsoft may have been one of the first movers when they acquired Hotmail back in the 1990s, eventually renaming it to Outlook.com after a brief diversion to Windows Live. It’s been updated yet again, with Outlook.com switching to a new look this week after a period of testing and Office 365 Outlook on the web users being given the new look from July 22nd. 

Tom Furmanski6th July 2019
Events

We’ll be at stand 105 at the Southwest Business Expo on 4th July, see you there?

We like last minute decisions and so with less than a week to go before the event we’ve decided that we’ll be exhibiting at Southwest Business Expo, Swindon – stand 105, just before you reach the entrance  – and would love to meet you there on the 4th July (this coming Thursday) between 10am and 3pm at Steam Museum

Chris Grant29th June 2019