Album Artwork – Surviving Digitalis.

I don’t know if it’s the designer or the music lover in me, but I’ve always had a thing for album art. With music downloads (legal or otherwise) being all the rage nowadays, I still find myself very much drawn to the tacticity of opening a real, ‘live’ cd box. And it’s not only the artwork, but the packaging too. What’s really impressed me, is as we move into the ‘digital age’, many bands are moving along with it and adapting their album releases and packing ...

Free Course on Tagging your Photos

Meta-data. Keywords. Tags. In today’s world of data overload, the value of our data and our ability to find it again, seems to be resting in the capable hands of every one of us and how good we are at labelling or tagging it. Delicious, Flickr, YouTube and WordPress all use tags to categorise content with some of the content relying heaviest on tags being visual media, especially the stockphoto market. The problem is that the quality of tag data lies directly in the hands of ...

Web Gangstaz Unite!

So, we all know the big Rivalry that is West-Side vs East-Side – 2Pac and Biggie both paid the price for being Gangstaz. What you may not know, is that what every great Gangsta Rivalry needs; what sets one G-boy out from the next, is the quality of their hand sign! East-side has their half-ring-finger ‘E’. West-side, their ring-over-index finger ‘W’. Everyone knows this. Everyone respects it. And what every Gangsta is looking for, is the big R-E-S-P-E-C-T! And this is why any HTMLGangsta wanna-be owes ...

For my first trick…

So, this is my first post here on BitRebels. I really just wanted to give a ‘Howdy’ to everyone, and just to say keep your eyes peeled – BR’s going places!! I haven’t quite figured what I’ll be posting about yet, but suffice it to say, it’ll be random geekery goodness, and my hope is that you will enjoy at least some of the words I lay down here. I’ve kept this one short and sweet, as I really just wanted to say hi, but to ...