Quark Labs – not the dog type

In case you missed it, Quark has launched a new microsite: Quark Labs.

Interesting that the homepage is mostly made up of a huge set of legal terms and conditions. I suppose they have to cover themselves but, hey, there’s no need to ram it down our throats.

You can also download a free version of Shadowcaster, previously owned by A Lowly Apprentice (ALAP), recently bought out by Quark.

They seem to be after some free market research and QA testing but that is all to the general good. There is a forum for you to comment on their latest new bells and whistles. And I shall certainly be downloading all the freebies and see what they do.

It also mentions “you can also gain access to limited editions of earlier software releases”, which would be mega-useful, I just can’t find where…

Cut URLs down to size

There are some helpful sites that I am at a lost to see how they ‘monetise’ their work. TinyURL.com being one of them. Or rather, I’m amazed that people are sensible enough not to be too greedy.
This is such a useful site that I use all the time, and have seen being used by countless others, I’m amazed it hasn’t been bought by Google. That said, I suppose they get a pretty penny from the Adsense ads. I really wonder who gives money by those donation buttons. I have once, so with billion’s of hits I suppose a tiny fraction giving a tiny amount makes it a good business.

I’m intrigued how it ‘never expires’ either. Gosh, people are clever.

Got milk?

A beautiful bit of marketing-led-design-programming-triumph: gettheglass.com

Thanks to creativepro for the link.

(We don’t have the marketing term ‘got milk?’ in the UK but it’s such a great tag line that my Husband and I use it all the time. See wikipedia for the history of the Got Milk campaign.)