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19th November 2003

The Iconfactory: xScope 1.0

“Created for designers by ARTIS Software and The Iconfactory, xScope is a powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, aligning and inspecting on-screen graphics and layouts.”

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19th November 2003

The Iconfactory: xScope 1.0

“Created for designers by ARTIS Software and The Iconfactory, xScope is a powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, aligning and inspecting on-screen graphics and layouts.”

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19th November 2003

The Iconfactory: xScope 1.0

“Created for designers by ARTIS Software and The Iconfactory, xScope is a powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, aligning and inspecting on-screen graphics and layouts.”

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19th November 2003

The 3d Tube Map

“The London Underground map is copyright of Transport for London. I’m not making any money from this so don’t sue me. Please. It’s taken me since March (mostly because I’ve not had long periods of not working on it) and this is the third and final version but finally it’s finished. There’s no deep artistic meaning…I just fancied a go at it and its probably not 100% accurate but I had limited information to go on plus my own sparse knowledge of the tube.”

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19th November 2003

www. is deprecated

“By default, all popular Web browsers assume the HTTP protocol. In doing so, the software prepends the ‘http://’ onto the requested URL and automatically connect to the HTTP server on port 80. Why then do many servers require their websites to communicate through the www subdomain? Mail servers do not require you to send emails to recipient@mail.domain.com. Likewise, web servers should allow access to their pages though the main domain unless a particular subdomain is required.”

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19th November 2003

David Carson Speaks Up

“The first question that comes to mind is an easy one (at least for me), It has been quite some time since we’ve heard anything from ‘Camp David,’ where have you been for the past five years? Has it been a conscious decision to stay off the public eye?”

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19th November 2003

The 3d Tube Map

“The London Underground map is copyright of Transport for London. I’m not making any money from this so don’t sue me. Please. It’s taken me since March (mostly because I’ve not had long periods of not working on it) and this is the third and final version but finally it’s finished. There’s no deep artistic meaning…I just fancied a go at it and its probably not 100% accurate but I had limited information to go on plus my own sparse knowledge of the tube.”

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