Celebrating Sir Isaac Newton’s Birthday!

(This was posted 8 months, 4 days, 10 hours, 9 minutes's ago.)

The Google Doodle celebrates Sir Isaac Newton’s Birthday!

Today Google is celebrating Sir Isaac Newton’s birthday with a Doodle of a falling apple.

At Thinking Virtually we are really big fans of the Google Doodles but this one didn’t really work for us. Recently Google celebrated ‘Sesame Street’ with a torrent of Doodles that we great and the annual Doodle 4 Google competition winner was fab!

For us the doodle doesn’t seem integrated, it feels like a ‘bolt on’.

This being said celebrating the birth of Sir Isaac Newton on 25th December 1642 is a worthy thing to do indeed. Isaac Newton was a mathematician, physicist and one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time.

He was born in Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire and passed away at the age of 84. Considering the average life expectancy in the 1700’s was 45 to 50 years Sir Isaac Newton clearly lead a full life!

Either way – Happy Birthday Sir Isaac Newton and well done to Google for bringing it to all our attention.

Photoshop On the Move!

(This was posted 8 months, 1 week, 3 days, 16 minutes's ago.)

We like a gadget and this one is a winner in our book.

I had a problem the other day that I thought my iPhone would laugh at… I had taken a picture in the wrong aspect, I’d used it to take a picture that I wanted to put on Facebook but didn’t realise that I couldn’t edit (rotate) the photo once I had taken it.

I looked at the apps and found something that I just had to have – Photoshop Mobile. Adobe have embraced and lead new media tools but this is an absolute must have – and best of all it’s FREE!

Photoshop Mobile will let you crop, rotate or change colours at the touch of a finger. You can even open a Photoshop.com account and upload your images for future use so they don’t take up room on your phone – Great!

Photoshop Mobile is available for the iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile devices.

I have an iPhone and really like this little app – thanks Adobe.

We Love Planet Leasing

(This was posted 8 months, 1 week, 4 days, 8 hours, 52 minutes's ago.)

Planet Leasing are vehicle brokers, based in Southend, Essex. Basically if you are looking for car leasing, van leasing or 4x4 leasing they are the people to talk to.

Planet Leasing are our longest standing customer. This was the first site we built back in January 2007. It was rebuilt mid 2008 using ExpressionEngine so that they could update the leasing offers but otherwise is pretty much the same design as it has always been.

In addition to vehicle leasing and contract hire Planet leasing can offer great insurance deals and gap insurance. Their insurance deals work in much the same way as the lease, that is to say that providing you don’t change your circumstances the quote you get on day 1 can last for the full period of the contract hire or lease – think of that, fixed prices for the life of your car, van or 4x4 lease!

Darren and Gary setup the business and are now complicated by a number of team members, if you are looking to change your vehicle in the next few months, are looking for one now or are coming to the end of your contract hire/lease agreement give them a call to find out how they can help you.

Click here to see BMW Lease offers, Audi Lease offer or offers by price range (Lease Offers Under £150, Lease office £150 to £200, Lease Offers £200 to £250, Lease Offers £250 to £300, Lease Offers £300 to £350, Lease Offers £350 to £400 and Lease Offers over £400).

Liberty Washroom Services

(This was posted 8 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 8 hours, 26 minutes's ago.)

I wanted to pop an old site in the blog as I really like it and it works well for the client.

Liberty Washroom Services provide washroom services to companies both large and small. Based in Southend, Essex they cover all of Essex, London and Kent.

The site was designed by Baseline Creative and has been changed a little since originally going live.

The site performs extremely well in the search engines on a large number of keywords and phrases and we wish Liberty Washroom Services the best of luck in the future.

Can you feel the days getting longer?

(This was posted 8 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 10 hours, 51 minutes's ago.)

Yesterday (December 21st 2009) was the shortest day (Winter Solstice).

That means that we are officially on our way back to long summer evenings...

We are now rapidly approaching June 21st (Summer Solstice) which is the longest day!

For those that are particularly interested (I think that is geeks like me) each day will be up to 7 or 8 mins longer now but apparently it is not a uniform increase...

Other fun dates for your diary for the UK in 2010;

Feb. 14th, St. Valentine’s Day – It’s a Sunday so that weekend will be busy so you better get booked now for your favourite restaurant!

Mar. 28th, British Summertime commences – Yeah!
Oct. 23rd, British Summertime ends – thought let’s face it, we are not likely to regard it as summer at the end of October!

Dec. 25th, CHRISTMAS DAY (Saturday) 
Dec. 26th, BOXING DAY (Sunday) 
Dec. 27th, BANK HOLIDAY (Monday) 
Dec. 28th, BANK HOLIDAY (Tuesday)

And before you know it we will be looking squarely at 2011!