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The demo is like playing DOOM in a Magic Eye poster ... which approaches maximum 90's.
Visual Lizard worked with WinnipegREALTORS® to completely refresh their online presence. This includes refocusing the content and functionality into two branches: winnipegrealtors.ca covering the board and association, and winnipegrealestatenews.com targeted at consumers buying and selling real estate.
We collaborated closely with WinnipegREALTORS® information technology department, allowing us to build custom solutions to leverage their existing systems. Rather than requiring WinnipegREALTORS® to build or modify APIs to fit an off-the-shelf system, we integrated our Catalyst content management system to run off their databases on their hardware. WinnipegREALTORS® was happy to have a website that conformed to their workflows instead of the other way around.
The new winnipegrealestatenews.com uses Google Places and Google Maps to allow visitors to explore available properties in the Winnipeg Metropolitian Region. It rolls this new functionality with robust search, where you can filter over listing prices, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, floor space and land size, and key features. And when something peaks your interest, those finds can be compared against each other side-by-side, or favourited together to look over with your REALTOR® later.
REALTORs® and realtor broker offices now have their own unique presence on the site, with individual profile pages that feature biographies, languages spoken, specialities, and designations. And visitors can connect directly with a REALTOR® with a quick account registration, allowing the two to work closer together and help find that dream home!
You can read more at WinnipegREALTORS®, in their official announcement.
I kind of hope these people do exist, and someone is just adding the occasional artifact to real pictures. But they are probably really generated by an algorithm of some sort.
Not a product, a thought experiment from someone who needs a lot more ports than most.
Wow! The holiday season is already here and with it the end of 2018 is right around the corner. At this time of year, we like to step away from our keyboards, turn off our monitors, and spend time with the people in our lives.
We want to extend our very best wishes to everyone that we had the pleasure to work with this year. We hope you have a tremendous 2019 and we look forward to building something great together soon.
Visual Lizard will be closed from December 22 through to January 3, 2019. Should you have an emergency, please call the office and follow the auto-attendant for instructions.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
In September 2018, a devastating fire at the museum destroyed an estimated 20 million pieces, from one-of-a-kind artworks to archeological artifacts. Now Google is hosting an online exhibition of the museum’s collection where you can virtually explore the pre-fire museum in a Street View interface.
Remove.bg is a free service to remove the background of any photo. It works 100% automatically: You don't have to manually select the background/foreground layers to separate them - just select your image and instantly download the result image with the background removed!
A few months ago, Microsoft let slip a forthcoming Windows 10 feature that was, at the time, called InPrivate Desktop: a lightweight virtual machine for running untrusted applications in an isolated environment. That feature has now been officially announced with a new name, Windows Sandbox.
The Steam Link app is now available on the Raspberry Pi 3B and 3B+ running Raspbian Stretch. A wired network is strongly recommended.
A new commit on the Chromium source reads: "Entries that are added to the back/forward list without the user's intention are marked to be skipped on subsequent back button invocations."
In March, many Android users were shocked to discover that Facebook had been collecting a record of their call and SMS history, as revealed by the company’s data download tool. Now, internal emails released by the UK Parliament show how the decision was made internally. According to the emails, developers knew the data was sensitive, but they still pushed to collect it as a way of expanding Facebook’s reach.
The focus is on bug fixes and security, so none of them introduce major new features.
With Chrome 71, Chrome will filter experiences on websites that fall under Google’s definition of abusive. These include web experiences that aren’t just limited to ads, such as auto-redirects that happen without any action from a user or trick-to-click experiences like a warning notification that actually leads to an ad or another website’s landing page. Sites that are reported to have abusive experiences will be given a 30-day grace period to clean up their behavior before every ad on the site is blocked.