The iPhone, and to a lesser extent the iPod Touch, has revolutionised Internet access on the go. 80% of iPhone users have taken the device online. Unheard of in smartphone statistics.
What does this mean? The mobile-device (non-laptop) revolution is coming. If your website cannot be easily viewed on a mobile device then now is the [...]

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I have had so much downtime from moving hosts that it is untrue. I’m sorry about the site failures that have been happening since Friday.
This is going to turn into a review / rant about Hostican, the hosting provider I moved to. This is my personal experience of them:
Pretty much as soon as I moved [...]

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What is a blog? What should a blog be? What’s your blog’s point?
Well one of the original bloggers, Jorn Barger, gives his views in this Wired article. Some of his points I agree with, some don’t make sense and take the power and bite out of the collective production and sway of the blog.
At [...]

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I have no intention of taking over the world.
Really.
That said I think it is time I tried to expand on the CreationRobot blog. I’ve made a couple of attempts at this before, but the sites had little concrete focus, and by little I mean about as focused as fog.
So recently I’ve been putting thought [...]

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I certainly welcome international readers whose first language is not English. To that end I’ve added a translation tool on the right hand side of CreationRobot. This prompts me to ask two questions:
- Is it worth having a translation tool on your blog, and which is the best?
- Has online translation reached a point where [...]

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Considering Creationrobot (CR) is aimed at a large age range I post about a lot of different topics. That said, I’d rate CR as TEEN.
This way I think those reading CR will be able to judge themselves if an article is too old for them. When you are a teen you really should be responsible [...]

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This coming weekend I’m moving CR to the Cutline theme. It is nice and clean and has good cross browser support.
Hopefully the transition will be smooth but expect some issues. Post them as you find them and I’ll have them fixed.
Edit: So I did the move right away. Made things easier, will do upgrades on [...]

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It seems I can no longer delete posts once created. Grr.

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