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Google Street View glitch or UFO attack on Datalink ?
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
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
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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- How to create pages without links to them in Freestyler CMS - Sean Fishlock - 08 July 2008
- LG 3.0 - Collaborative ICT Delivery - 25 June 2008
- City of Monash to develop Youth Directory - 06 June 2008
- Email Marketing using Freestyler CMS - How it stacks up - Sean Fishlock - 07 May 2008
- Information architecture for Websites - Sean Fishlock - 01 May 2008
- Datalink celebrates 10 years - Scott Davey - 30 April 2008
- Security and Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) - Sean Fishlock - 21 April 2008
- Is there a stigma around the YouTube brand ? - Sean Fishlock - 17 April 2008
- Brimbank City Council to build Youth Website - 15 April 2008
- Athletics Australia wins Australian Sports Award for their Datalink website - Sean Fishlock - 26 March 2008
- Datalink supports Earth Hour Melbourne 2008 - 26 March 2008
- Web based Emergency Coordination Centre launched with Alpine Shire - 25 March 2008
- Boroondara Community Forums Launched - 21 March 2008
- Marketing to the Social Web - Review - Sean Fishlock - 11 March 2008
- Sink or SWM: The fine balance of Social Web Marketing - Sean Fishlock - 06 March 2008
- How do you feel about having your web designer or developer's link on your site ? - Sean Fishlock - 05 March 2008
- Local Governments tune into RSS - Sean Fishlock - 03 March 2008
- Sitemap in Footer - A new approach to enhancing your website's performance - Sean Fishlock - 27 February 2008
- Tweaking Webpage CMS Templates for Better User Experience - Sean Fishlock - 20 February 2008
- AFL overhauls its website .... again - Sean Fishlock - 19 February 2008
- Sydney web design & development - Sean Fishlock - 15 February 2008
- Interactive Online Membership Rates Calculator Improves PDL's member services - Sean Fishlock - 07 February 2008
- Datalink celebrates 10 years in 2008! - Scott Davey - 06 February 2008
- Social Networking and Web 2.0 at Work - Facebook Behind the Firewall - Sean Fishlock - 04 February 2008
- Website Content Loading, Entry, Inventory and Migration - Why it can make or break your web project - Sean Fishlock - 31 January 2008
- Accessible Website Design - What's in it for me ? - Sean Fishlock - 29 January 2008
- Link Integrity - What is it and why is it so important ? - Sean Fishlock - 17 January 2008
- Optometrists Association Australia launches into YouTube campaign - Sean Fishlock - 16 January 2008
- Yarra Ranges Youth Website Gets Animated for Bushfire Awareness Campaign - Sean Fishlock - 11 January 2008
- Information Architecture - Blueprints for the Web Review - Sean Fishlock - 08 January 2008
- Christmas office hours and support - 20 December 2007
- Confusing e-Commerce : why the AFL through Ticketmaster and Telstra are frustrating their customers - Sean Fishlock - 19 December 2007
- Datalink support gets an upgrade - Scott Davey - 14 December 2007
- Nillumbik Shire Council to establish family portal - 11 December 2007
- Wyndham City Council launches "What's On Wyndham" interactive calendar - 10 December 2007
- Why your business should promote, not discourage user-generated content (UGC) - Sean Fishlock - 07 December 2007
- Herald Sun gets a new look - Sean Fishlock - 05 December 2007
- Exciting new Sport and Environment initiative launches website - Sean Fishlock - 03 December 2007
- Community Consultation Web 2.0 style - Sean Fishlock - 29 November 2007
- To Pop-up or Not ? The right and the wrong times to open new windows - Sean Fishlock - 28 November 2007
- Information Architecture for Intranets - Scott Davey - 26 November 2007
- The Internet's role in the 2007 Federal Election - Sean Fishlock - 25 November 2007
- Planning your Christmas e-Marketing campaign - Sean Fishlock - 22 November 2007
- Which software development methodology is the best for web development ? - Sean Fishlock - 15 November 2007
- Web2.0 CMS - what makes a good one ? - Sean Fishlock - 14 November 2007
- Freestyler CMS is more Microsoft/IIS and Google friendly than ever - 13 November 2007
- Australia China project management presentation - 12 November 2007
- Meet TinyMCE, the new Text Editor for Freestyler - 07 November 2007
- Microsoft and Facebook, a marriage made in heaven ? - Sean Fishlock - 01 November 2007
- World first scientific application for Optometry portal - Sean Fishlock - 01 November 2007
- Tips for achieving Viral Growth - 31 October 2007
- Commonwealth Bank website tries to keep up with the Joneses - Sean Fishlock - 31 October 2007
- e-Newsletter gets the message across for Knowles - Sean Fishlock - 26 October 2007
- Improving Website Image and Map Accessibility - 24 October 2007
- How Australian youtube.com.au can boost your business - Sean Fishlock - 23 October 2007
- The Elements of User Experience - User-Centred Design for the Web Review - Sean Fishlock - 23 October 2007
- PHP4 End of Life - 22 October 2007
- What is a "unique visitor" ? And how to count them - Sean Fishlock - 18 October 2007
- Social Media Optimisation (SMO) in Practice - Web 2.0 for growing your business - Sean Fishlock - 16 October 2007
- Governments vote for online election - Sean Fishlock - 14 October 2007
- New Corporate Blogging Software - 11 October 2007
- RSS feeds and syndication - an evergrowing world - Sean Fishlock - 09 October 2007
- Sydney Morning Herald and The Age feature former Datalink team member turned e-entrepeneur - 09 October 2007
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO) campaign success stories - Sean Fishlock - 08 October 2007
- Web 2.0, the Fate of Dot Com companies, e-Entrepreneurs and Internet Startups - Sean Fishlock - 05 October 2007
- Spell checking in Freestyler - 04 October 2007
- The New Rules of Marketing & PR Review - Sean Fishlock - 03 October 2007
- Confusing e-commerce: why Nokia and NAB get it wrong - Scott Davey - 28 September 2007
- The Right and Wrong Approaches to Website Re-Design - Sean Fishlock - 26 September 2007
- Getting the most out of Search Log Analysis and Google Analytics - Sean Fishlock - 24 September 2007
- City of Whittlesea launch new Youth Website - 20 September 2007
- Talking e-Democracy with Government of China - 18 September 2007
- TADVIC to redevelop website - 17 September 2007
- Web Application Frameworks - make the hard work easier - Sean Fishlock - 06 September 2007
- 2007 Datalink Footy Tipping champion - 06 September 2007
- Should you take Blackle, the Black Google's environmental claims seriously ? - Sean Fishlock - 04 September 2007
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web 3rd Edition Review - Sean Fishlock - 03 September 2007
- Social Network and Facebook Integration - The Next Big Thing - Sean Fishlock - 29 August 2007
- 10 Proven Methods to attract and measure return website visitors - Sean Fishlock - 27 August 2007
- Web 2.0 and Psychology 101 - Sean Fishlock - 26 August 2007
- A trip down memory lane - The Internet in 1993 - Sean Fishlock - 23 August 2007
- Favourites Icons (favicon) - Small, very important but often overlooked - Sean Fishlock - 21 August 2007
- ABC Website goes Web 2.0 - Scott Davey - 17 August 2007
- 5 big reasons why your web addresses should be Friendly URLs - Sean Fishlock - 14 August 2007
- Youth Central gets a makeover - Sean Fishlock - 13 August 2007
- Federal Government's Strategy for Internet and Child Safety - Sean Fishlock - 12 August 2007
- The Age / Sydney Morning Herald websites - new look - Sean Fishlock - 11 August 2007
- RMIT website revamped - Sean Fishlock - 10 August 2007
- ICT "It's a Change Agent" - first day wrap - Sean Fishlock - 09 August 2007
- Local Government Technology Solutions Conference - 08 August 2007
- Best Looking Websites? How to choose? - Sean Fishlock - 02 August 2007
- Technology in government & the public sector - 30 July 2007
- How to Make Money with Adsense and Context Advertising - Sean Fishlock - 26 July 2007
- How to use YouTube to grow your business - Sean Fishlock - 24 July 2007
- Shire of Yarra Ranges to redesign youth website - 16 July 2007
- Adding interactive online maps to your website - Sean Fishlock - 12 July 2007
- Bots, crawlers, spiders? What do they all mean? - 09 July 2007
- Planning, Managing and Maintaining large web projects - 06 July 2007
- Why you should recruit a new website - Sean Fishlock - 06 July 2007
- The Do's and Don'ts of Wikis - Sean Fishlock - 29 June 2007
- Benchmarking AJAX powered websites - Sean Fishlock - 18 June 2007
- Learning from the Telstra AFL website problems - Sean Fishlock - 15 June 2007
- Capture your target market with a "magnet" website - Sean Fishlock - 12 June 2007
- Sourcing and optimising images for websites - Sean Fishlock - 07 June 2007
- Are unique looking websites necessarily the best way to go ? - Sean Fishlock - 04 June 2007
- Datalink launches Central Portal - Sean Fishlock - 30 May 2007
- The Paperless Office - Login to stop logging - Sean Fishlock - 25 May 2007
- Freestyler 5.1 Released - 25 May 2007
- Fight the Signs of Website Ageing - Sean Fishlock - 18 May 2007
- Does Email Marketing still cut it ? - Sean Fishlock - 11 May 2007
- Nintendo Wii Party - 07 May 2007
- Customers are all ears for website audio Podcasting - Sean Fishlock - 04 May 2007
- Take Revenge on Spam bots - Sean Fishlock - 30 April 2007
- The Importance of Browser Compatibility - Sean Fishlock - 26 April 2007
- Introducing Datalink's new account manager - Scott Davey - 16 April 2007
- Welcome to our new website - Scott Davey - 09 April 2007
- Rec Footy team finishes on a high - 26 January 2007
- What is Web 2.0 and what does it mean for me ? - Scott Davey - 25 August 2006
- Non profit communications, e-business and Internet strategy - Scott Davey - 30 June 2006
- Extreme Extranets - more than just a login - Sean Fishlock - 12 April 2006
- Government e-Citizenship presentation for LGPRA - Scott Davey - 06 April 2006
- Datalink becomes an Endorsed Government Supplier - Scott Davey - 05 April 2006
- e-Government Strategy 2006 - Scott Davey - 03 April 2006
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