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Tim Thumb Vulnerability

February 3, 2012 at 4:14 pm, Category: General Computing, Unix, Web Development, Web Hosting, No Comments

Last year, a vulnerability in a popular php code used in a lot of WordPress themes – Tim Thumb – was discovered. The hack exploited...

Magento – our favourite cart?

February 3, 2012 at 4:04 pm, Category: General Computing, Reviews, Web Hosting, No Comments

We like Magento. We have used Magento for a long time, as Web Designers through our Agency and as Web Hosts, and we’re very familiar...

Javascript Canvas Frameworks

September 26, 2011 at 10:02 am, Category: Featured, General Computing, Web Development, 2 Comments

Times as ever are a changing. Carrying on from my last article on websockets, I’ll be looking at how the user interfaces of future web applications will...

7 Spicy Google Chrome Extensions and why they are hot!

August 2, 2011 at 10:24 am, Category: General Computing, Reviews, Uncategorized, Web Development, 8 Comments

We’re big fans of the excellent Keepass Password manager, and in terms of cataloguing and organising logins, this is still the best solution in my...

My Time At NuBlue

July 18, 2011 at 3:11 pm, Category: General Computing, Web Development, No Comments

Last week NuBlue played host to Liam, joining us on work experience from Our Lady’s Catholic College in Lancaster. Liam was keen to do his work experience with NuBlue because of his interest in Graphics...

Why Google Chrome is now sexy

July 7, 2011 at 10:30 am, Category: General Computing, Web Development, 6 Comments

About 3 weeks ago I came in to work in the morning to find my computer was running like a turtle dipped in honey yet...

Which Tablet Computer?

August 19, 2010 at 9:56 am, Category: General Computing, Reviews, 3 Comments

At the beginning of the year, much hype surrounded the emergence of next generation tablet computers; indeed, many computer industry experts were braced for what...

Threaded Python Websocket Server And Javascript Client

July 23, 2010 at 4:05 pm, Category: Featured, General Computing, Web Development, 16 Comments

All source code required to begin coding a threaded python websocket server can be found here: Example Python Websocket Server The latest draft of the...

How to increase iphone 3G speed with iOS 4

July 6, 2010 at 2:20 pm, Category: Business, Featured, General Computing, Uncategorized, 4 Comments

10! Is it the number of iphones in the NuBlue office? No (well it might be roughly ).. That’s the time in seconds my Iphone...

The end of Flash? …Maybe Not!

June 17, 2010 at 3:21 pm, Category: General Computing, Reviews, Web Development, 1 Comment

Over the past few months the future of the rich internet media development has been debated extensively, with the popularity of Apple’s products at an...

Echo, Synaptics and the Real-time Web

May 18, 2010 at 4:45 pm, Category: General Computing, Reviews, Web Development, 1 Comment

We recently introduced Echo into our blog as part of our ongoing effort to further engage with our customers through our updated website and through...

Copify. Friend or Foe?

April 27, 2010 at 9:50 am, Category: Business, General Computing, Reviews, Uncategorized, 3 Comments

Here at Nublue, we have some new neighbours in the form of copywriting platform Copify. For the uninitiated, Copify operate a website which has been...

Using the internet to help survive the recession

October 31, 2008 at 3:26 pm, Category: Business, General Computing, 2 Comments

Banks are failing, stocks are falling and Governments around the world are finally admitting we are heading for a recession! So with all the doom...

Best Web Browser?

July 8, 2008 at 4:09 pm, Category: Business, General Computing, Reviews, 7 Comments

As a budding ‘surfer’ (back in the days when surfing the web still seemed mysterious and vaguely appropriate), I never took to Internet Explorer. I...