They disappeared for a while and have returned with a promise of more activity covering start-up news in both the UK and Ireland.
Is this direct competition for an audience with Blognation Ireland?
Pixelapes have just signed up to participate in Blog Action Day with is coming up on the 15th of October.
The idea behind Blog Action Day is to get thousands of bloggers posting about a single topic in their own words and to help raise awareness and hopefully some funds for environmental causes.
The Golden Spider awards are fast approaching. These awards put themselves forward as the Oscars of web design in Ireland, and considering their high-profile amongst Irish web-users we decided to take a closer look at what previous years have delivered.
The results don’t paint a pretty picture, especially if you consider web-design based on standards and accessibility to be an important factor. Web design in Ireland is littered with archaic coding practices and we thought that a web awards system would consider it important to reward the forward-thinking companies that have embraced web standards. Unfortunately this is not the case.
Thanks the extremely high price of laptop repair, Pixelapes needed a new laptop extremely quickly.
After some searching around the web a decision was made, and it turned out to be the absolute correct one. There will be an imminent return to web and graphic design on the go!
When things go wrong be warned that your preferred laptop manufacturer is probably anything but your friend.
Here we give an example involving an out-of-warranty laptop repair quote and demonstrate the high prices charged by the big computer companies for those customisations of your new machines.
There’s been a bit of a frenzy of acquisition announcements over the past few weeks. In fact it seems as though Google are buying a company every week.
However it doesn’t just stop at Google, and plenty of other companies are getting in on the buy-out game.
A lot of end users, mac and pc, tend to pit themselves and their chosen product against the other. We’ve all seen it or heard people talking about why one is better than the other, and sure Apple seem to leverage that through their recent Mac adverts.
However this interview certainly demonstrates that whilst Microsoft and Apple are in competition with each other, they also work together in a lot of spheres.