Big Trousers, Web, Design, Photography and new media.

When am I going to see another episode? I love this show.

Get over to HMC and check out the work of a mate of mine, Helen from Limelight. As part of the Art in Public Places run by Hobson’s Bay City Council, Helen has created more of her retro pin-ups to be exhibited. They’re going to be displayed during the Williamstown festival at the Iceberg bar, [...]

Interesting, we just got a call from a company offering to host content management sites for $250 a month. In the last month or so we have been experimenting with an Open Source content management application, WordPress. We have found it to be extremely powerful and flexible. A large number of paid for content management [...]

Trish has had her portrait done in the studio at Big Trousers in a bit of a rush to cope with media inquiries regarding her new role as President of The Greater Western Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Trish and her partner Paul run “The Tint Shop” in West Melbourne and was elected president recently [...]

This is just to say hi to all those that ask me to wave on the webcam. any chance of a wave on the webcam. i am from the UK. kim

Telstra boss, Greg Winn, let Apple know he did not think much of their iPhone. He reckons they should stick to their knitting. In other words he says the phone manufacturers of today will easily compete with whatever technolgy Apple puts into the iPhone. Tell that to Microsoft or a dozen other mp3 player manufacturers. [...]

Acording to Appleinsider an Apple sub-notebook may be coming soon. A tiny sub-notebook on its way from Apple Inc. is expected to re-establish the Mac maker as a leader in the field of compact computing while drawing parallels to the legendary PowerBook 2400 along the way. This is interesting news as is fills the gap [...]

So the final is complete of the 3D view of the Big Trousers office in Footscray. We hope to get this file uploaded to Google Earth but it may be a little too intricate. In the meantime to see the 3D image make sure you have the latest version of Google Earth and download our [...]

We have just completed a rather strange site for us. Ajayswebcams is a site built entirely on a WordPress application. This means the site is fully content managed and has a lot of dynamic content. Our aim was to make it a search friendly as possible. Funding comes from placed advertisments by Google, so do [...]

Well this is the first image in location with some detail. The next step is to work on optimized png images for the surface detail. This file can be downloaded and viewed in 3D now by downloading the image file and locater for Google Earth by clicking here. UPDATE: If you downloaded the first file, [...]

Coming soon, the new MJFF site for 2007. This site will now be complete with a WordPress content management blog type application that will allow members of the committee to add pertinent details as they become available. Also this simple banner advertisement that links to the site is hosted as an image on the MJFF [...]

After much time in the planning Crosby Architects site is now live. Many thanks to Dave and Mark at eFront who helped with the blog style sheet for the Blogger application and some of the implementation. It is a testament to Geoff Crosby’s design sense that the page has emerged in a clean disciplined style. [...]

This comment from Apple is the best explanation of the current state of affairs within the music download industry I have read. The last paragraph puts it right back up the nose of European ( an especially the French ) government agencies who are now making iTunes illegal in those countries. “Much of the concern [...]

According to Apple, iTunes users should delay an upgrade to Vista if they want to maintain their iTunes functionality. Apple says that there were “compatibility issues” which would create some problems like a failure to play music and video purchased from the iTunes store; poor animation performance; and a failure to automatically synchronise media, contacts [...]

Work has been progressing on a few of our own 3D uploads for the recently released version of Google Earth that allows users to upload there own files for all users online to see. A free version of SketchUp allows one to “build” your own place then upload the file to Googles’ server. In the [...]