Belfast has a fairly competitive print media sector considering the regions population. Recently this has taken the form of redesigns at the Irish News and Belfast Telegraph but it looks like the Irish News are launching a new front with an online news channel IN.TV after the Telegraph recently launched a revamped site. Having been […]

The guys over at wired basically summed up IMD year one today:
Overview: The purpose of this six-week course is to provide a practical introduction to the skills needed to create the most useful and popular images for web publishing. Students will need a copy of Photoshop CS2, familiarity with Mac OS X or Windows, and […]

Its cut out and keep day here at the Warthog, download the tea pantone chart.
Get all of your work colleagues to mark their preferred strength and bobs our uncle.
Tea crisis avoided!
Make a perfect cup of tea

Who is this ugly mother flubber?
The wonder beard!

We love brushes, and this is worth a bookmark in anyones browser.
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A Sacramento, Calif., radio station has fired 10 employees after a woman died in a water-drinking contest to win a Nintendo Wii, the Associated Press and other media sources are reporting.
A preliminary autopsy indicated that Jennifer Strange, 28, died from water intoxication after participating in KDND-FM 107.9’s on-air “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contest […]

Being a designer/web geek, I do get brought into meetings randomly and people are always about the office.
My last job I wore a suit for every meeting and smart casual for the office, now I flit between a shirt and trousers and jumper/jeans,
but should we wear suits?
What do you lot wear? 37 Signals have this […]

My primary school had a few, the hours I spent drawing Jesus and the apostles for an R.E project only to be told that “They didn’t wear adidas trainers then”

If this turns out to be true, consider me fecking excited. A few movies have popped up on YouTube surrounding the rumour of a new Ghostbusters game in production for the next-gen consoles. There’s been a few sites saying it’s just a Gears of War mod, but I’ve never played the game, so I dunno. […]

So it turns out that the a-bomb has arrived in Belfast, but fear not Captain Planet and the Planeteers are hear to save us from the terror and hopefully those dodgy accents as well.

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By the way sorry I have to take you to the awful Bebo for this link - if anyone knows […]

What a great idea:
I am working with the arts organisation Independent Photography and a group of young people from the Greenwich Peninsula on a new project. We will be making a Rap video using the CCTV cameras that are strewn across the Peninsula. The young people are creating the rap lyrics as well as the […]

So now we’ve seen how Apple intend to throw mobile phones on their head with the spectacular iPhone maybe we should pay a little visit back to Dave’s post last August when he highlighted some of the really cool multi-touch screen technology which apple have put into the iPhone.
Multi-touch screen technology
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Harking back to the days when men were men, starring the manliest man of all…
Click Hear-YARR!

In the movie Independence Day, alien invaders are successfully repelled when plucky geek Jeff Goldblum uploads a computer virus to the alien mothership, disabling the attacking ships’ protective force fields and allowing the combined military of the entire world to take them all down at once.
Goldblum’s character does this using an Apple Macintosh Powerbook 5300.
The […]

Turn up the volume and be proud of our fightin’ boys and our little doggies too

Nice tutorial, I can see me using this for effects other than just flames.
Photoshop - how to create a realistic Gas Flame
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For those who missed BBC 2’s showing of this Hammer Classic last night.

It’s called the Legend of the 7 Golden Monkeys, and if found in your local petrol station bargin bin, I’d recommend a purchase! I know my license fee is in good hands.

I’ve just discovered an excellent site for fonts, available to download free of charge for non-commercial use (we wouldnt have it any other way here at the ‘hog). Maybe I’m behind the times and you know about it already but just in case check it - dafont.com. I was looking for one font in particular […]

Oh Canada! Oh Caaneeda!!!

The yet-to-be-titled forth Indiana Jones movie is to go into production in June, with a May ‘08 release. Hooray!
From Ain’t It Cool News:
“(We) commented on a report from an interview with Lucas where he said, for the third year running, that Indy 4 will go into production next year (being this year now) with a May ‘08 release. I was […]

I love tea and must confess to being a Nambarrie man through and through. Earlier though I read at BusinessEye that Nambarrie’s great tea rival Punjana had launched a new site with Belfast company StreamOn. I went along to check it out after reading that the site had won the recent Belfast Business Awards, Best […]