For those of you who are developers, and still use Firefox, you’ll be happy to know that Mozilla announced yesterday that they’ve rolled out a new developer too. Mozilla put together a video for all of us to have a look at it:

Some of the features are:

1. More built in tools for real-time editing.
2. Page Inspector allows you to look into a page’s structure.
3. Style Inspector allows for quick and easy style editing.
4. Scratchpad uses Eclipse Orion to give you syntax highlighting
5. A full-screen API for full screen web experiences.

Those aren’t shabby additions and some of them are definitely going to give Chrome’s developer tools a run for their money.

The tools come bundled with Firefox, so you’ll need to update to get them.

Over to you Chrome, let’s see how you come back!

I think iphoneography is pretty darn cool, I love how people have taken the concept and involved into something that so many people know and appreciated. Another reason Apple products get more and more popular.

Check this out, the iPhone Lens Wallet – Simply put, this wallet allows you to keep your iPhone lenses easily accessible and protected. Telephoto and Magnetic lense holders are provided as well. Look, the words don’t do it justice so let’s look at the photographs:

You can pick this awesome kit up for just $15.00.

I’ve spoken about creating a Google Plus Page for your business before, in fact, I provided you with a step by step guide, so there’s no excuse not to have one. Now I want to tell you about a really great way to get that page rolling with content. Remember, Google’s search is the number one search engine and Google own Google+, so Google is going to rank Google+ information in their search engine and that’s all the rage at the moment for people who want to increase their organic traffic.

The idea is rather straight forward: we want to get new and fresh content onto your page – updating it yourself can take a lot of time, writing articles to share takes a huge amount of time and doesn’t guarantee you that anyone will even add your business page to their circles. Like we’ve seen with blogging and websites before, crowd sourcing content is hugely popular, it results in a ton of fresh content that you don’t even write yourself, someone else does and that’s exactly what we’re going to look at today.

So here’s the idea:

Hold a Q&A session on your Google+ Page. That’s it! Okay, so there’s a little more to it, but that’s the premise. If you’re an expert in your industry, which you should be if you’re running a company, then why not send a message out to your customers/clients, colleagues and followers telling them that between 13h00 and 14h00 you’ll be doing a questions and answers session on your Google+ Page – tell them they’re welcome to come by and ask any questions they might have. If you can get just 10 people across to the page, just imagine how much fresh content through discussions will be created – think about it, it’s an hour of your time which will bring you more content than a few weeks of writing fresh articles.

I’ve tried and tested such a theory with some friends and the results have been great. Remember to tag people in your questions and create discussion amongst others so you aren’t doing all the answering yourself, that’s another way to spike that content without technically being involved.

Take my word, this method will add a great jump start to your venture into dominating yet another place on Google’s Search Result Pages.

This comes as a bit of a scare – The FBI are looking for a team of developers who can build a heavyweight social media monitoring tool for them to they can keep an eye on what people are doing on social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and so forth.

Sure, there’s a lot of “bad” that happens on these sites, I’m sure you’ve all seen things before that you felt shouldn’t be there, but the things most of us see are probably not what the FBI is interested in, I’d imagine they’d want insight into potential terrorist attacks and actions of that magnitude. That said, I find myself asking whether this would be a good thing or a bad thing?

The FBI has announced that the following features should be available:

• Provide an automated search and scrape capability of both social networking sites and open source news sites for breaking events, crisis, and threats that meet the search parameters/keywords defined by FBI SIOC.
• Ability for user to create, define, and select parameters/key word requirements. Automated search of national news, local news, and social media networks. Examples include but are not limited to Fox News. CNN, MSNBC, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
• Ability for user to create, define, and select radius search functions that can be searched independently or in combination with an identified key word search/parameter.
• Provide automated filtering of data that has been searched and collected based on defined search parameters.
• Provide instant notifications of breaking events, incidents, and emerging threats that have been vetted and meet the defined search parameters.
• Ability to display alerts visually by geo-locating alerts onto a geospatial map. Displayed alerts should be prioritized (i.e. color coded) in accordance with FBI defined priorities.
• Ability to clear alert or maintain alert until its final resolution to be determined by the FBI designated user.
• Ability to save and archive the alerts.
• Ability for user to instantly select desired national and local news feeds to monitor breaking events and emerging threats, scrape the vetted news and social media information.
• Ability to immediately access geospatial maps with coding in addition to providing critical infrastructural layers. Preferred maps include but are not limited to Google Maps, Google 3D maps, ESRI, and Yahoo Maps.
• Ability to create templates that will allow user to quickly summarize (i.e. who, what, when, where, and why) threats/incidents identified and alerted by the application with geo-coordinates included. Ability available to immediately ingest the information into the Spot Report for time-sensitive threats/incidents.
• Ability for user to immediately disseminate the summarized threat or incident by either single alert notification or mass notification to the appropriate field office and FBI Executive Management.
• Ability to capture and summarize the investigative efforts conducted by the Field Office for resolution of the incident.
• Provide “Spot Report” folders to save and archive past reports.
• Ability to support Field offices by region by pre-designated or established tabs that will mirror the basic functional capabilities as the main SIOC site.
• Each tab should have the flexibility to make immediate changes to effectively support the mission requirements for a specific division.
• Ability to instantly search and monitor key words and strings in all “publicly available” tweets across the Twitter Site and any other “publicly available” social networking?sites/forums (i.e. Facebook, MySpace, etc.).

That’s quite a hefty list, it’s going to be interesting to see if they can recruit a team of top-notch developers to get involved!

Good thing or bad thing?

I started watching Game of Thrones about two weeks ago, and although I’m not drawn to it like a lot of people are, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it and am interested to see what Season 2 brings. Well, on that note, I’ve come across a teaser for Season 2.

Take a watch:

Are you addicted to Game of Thrones?

A sweet video hit the Internet a few hours ago of a skate park in Brazil that was turned into an amazing 3D lighting display by 3DM (an architectural lighting company).

Don’t hate me for the flash video please folks:

How awesome is that?

On Friday night whilst having drinks, surfing the Internet and looking for brilliant content, the Omo advert came up in discussion and I’ve been laughing ever since. Don’t you think that this is one of the best adverts you’ve ever seen:

I’ve laughed and laughed and laughed. Priceless.

Whilst we’re on the topic of awesome videos, check out Kitty Corliss, Grinding the Crack:

Inspired by Jeb Corliss obviously. Btw, that’s AWOLNATION – Sail, lyrics here.

Last week I sent out a tweet about receiving post cards from Russia, one on the Monday, one of the Tuesday and one on the Wednesday, which went on to say, “Looking forward to meeting you. From Russia, with love” – I was baffled and started guessing what it might be with the gents at work, as you can imagine, it was rather funny.

I arrived at work on Friday to find a bottle of Russian Standard Vodka and an awesome Russian hat, you can see these photographs here.

I gota tell you, the Vodka is surprisingly nice – I’ve had triple distilled, Absolut and a few other brands, but never have I had a Vodka that goes down really smoothly, and that was us drinking it neat!

I went on to look at their website and came across a cool collection of cocktail recipes that include this vodka and that’s exactly what I’m going to be doing this weekend. The recipes include The Berry End, Yellow Fever, The Fountain of Youth, Standardtini, Berryoska Strawberry & Blackberry and Vodka Tonic .. definitely a couple in there that I want to try! Here are the recipes, just click to enlarge:

Oh yes, if anyone’s tried vodka with mustard, please let me know as I’m anxious that this might lead my down a dangerous road!

By now everyone has heard of MXit and hundreds of thousands of people are using it. It has also been bought by Avatar, so new features will naturally start to appear once the servers are running safe and sound under the new control. Of course, the current features will remain (at least I assume so) and new ones will be added, but which of the current features are going to inspire the changes, which features are the most sought after?

I wanted to take this opportunity to ask all of you what is your favourite feature on MXit is? It’s always interesting to hear from the public what reasons lead them to using a piece of software.

Is it the multi-media sending, is it the cost, is it the chat room?

Leave a comment and let me know please :)