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Google Street View glitch or UFO attack on Datalink ?

13 August 2008 - By Sean Fishlock

Like everyone, I've been keen to check out Google Street View, my house and even my work, but you can imagine my suprise when I found the Datalink building at 71 Queens Road under UFO attack ... !



Yes, in case you're wondering we've all been abducted by aliens.  In our own little X File, there even appears to be some sort of ray beam emanating from the flying disc and enveloping the roof of our building. 

As you wonder down the street, the strange craft from outer space appears to weave in and out of the trees.  From another view the entire building is struck by a bizarre lightning bolt.

While our CEO makes light of the situation raising privacy concerns over his private vehicle being snapped while landing on the roof, Datalink employees are bewildered by the brazen behaviour of the martians buzzing or office tower in broad daylight in scenes of panic not seen since Orson Welles War of the Worlds.




See for yourself.


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We can only put it down to solar flares or a weather balloon or perhaps an Easter Egg from Google's developers but one thing is for sure The Truth is Out There ...
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Youth Websites take out the Design Awards

17 July 2008

Yarra Ranges Youth Services and City of Whittlesea's multicultural project "In My Shoes" are the latest Datalink Youth Portal sites to take out design awards.  Both won the Silver Australian Webdesigners category.
Youth Whittlesea has previously won the Gold award and Wyndham Youth has previously won a Platinum award.
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Freestyler CMS, browser add-ons and Skype

10 July 2008 - By Sean Fishlock

Skype  is a great mostly free Internet telephone service and personally I use it from time to time but one thing I've noticed recently is that browser plug-ins like Skypes and Freestyler CMS don't always get along.

Like many of our customers I also use Freestyler and I know of a few of our customers who also use this combination of programs.  For the most part they work well side-by-side.

The problem is not Skype, but the plug-in which Skype adds to Internet Explorer and Firefox by default.  The feature highlights phone numbers so that you can click on them to launch Skype.  While this is convenient, it is not always practical and in my honest opinion, the feature should be optional.

So if you've seen something that looks like this:  on web pages you visit and you also use Freestyler, then there might be a potential problem.

And as I've found, it can have unpredictable effects on Freestyler's Rich Text Editor, particularly in Internet Explorer.  One effect can be after saving, all of the content after the first Skype number does not get saved.  The problem is that the add-on inserts a whole lot of HTML code that Freestyler doesn't yet recognise how to strip out.  This can give the impression of losing content.

With a growing number of Skype users, you can be sure we'll be working on a solution, but in the meantime it is probably safer to disable these add-ons when using Freestyler. 

I found this webpage with specific instructions on how to do just this.  The good news is that once you apply the change, Skype remembers it so that even if you upgrade the problem won't return.

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