http://www.qrupa.com We make difficult websites. Easily. Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:24:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We just went back a hundred years and created an old school desktop application! Refreshing trip back to the old school times. Check out more details here. http://www.qrupa.com/blog/qrupa/an-offline-project/ The Reel asked us for a replacement for the DVD they used to send out each month. We created an offline application based on Flash Player featuring PC and Mac installer and fast electronic file delivery using YouSendIt. The result is a very fast and user friendly desktop application allowing to ... http://www.qrupa.com/work/the-reel-offlined/ We decided that it would be nice to get out there and do something interesting. And get extra office space at the same time, and meeting facilities close to Old Street. The Cube is a very interestig place, it's a business centre which manages to avoid the corporate and feels ... http://www.qrupa.com/blog/qrupa/the-cube-london/ We have just launched a new website for video production team Scissorhands. It's our own design implemented on Wordpress platform. Check it out at www.scissorhands.tv. http://www.qrupa.com/blog/qrupa/scissorhands-launched/ Scissorhands is a website presenting work of a London based video production team, designed from scratch and developed by us. Well, the opening video was produced by guys from Scissorhands in our studio. It's a very successful and quite advanced Wordpress implementation, featuring a lot of custom functionality. It's also ... http://www.qrupa.com/work/scissorhands-tv/ First of all, it's impossible to install Internet Explorer 7  on Windows 7 unless you use Win XP compatibility mode. You may also experience problems in Vista or XP if you're already running IE8. However, there is a very simple way which works in most of the cases if you're interested ... http://www.qrupa.com/blog/ie7-view-in-ie8/ FireFound is hands down the best security add-on for Firefox. It is a recently launched add-on which can track the location of your laptop if lost or stolen. It shows you the approximate geolocation along with the WiFi Network it last connected to. Read full article Here's the plugin homepage or just ... http://www.qrupa.com/blog/ontheweb/firefound-plugin/ Love it or hate it, but it's definitely a very original idea: http://acidcow.com/pics/4553-dead-flies-art-15-pics.html/ And we just heard directly from the author - here's his website, check it out, some great photography there! http://www.muhrfoto.se/ http://www.qrupa.com/blog/ontheweb/dead-flies-art/ Well it's not every day we buy software from Microsoft, but unfortunately we need those Windows and we're big boys now so can't just download a crack.... We went for Windows 7 Home Premium, as the difference between Home and Pro is tiny, especially if you're not running one of ... http://www.qrupa.com/blog/qrupa/system-vii-test-drive/ It seems like this is a perfect game for the bored office workers who are not allowed to install any games on their PCs. It's a bit like going back to Pentium III gaming, but hey, it runs within the browser. Apart from being a great game, it's definitely a taster ... http://www.qrupa.com/blog/nothingserious/quake-live/ The On Connection are a digital marketing agency who help us make sure our websites deliver great results for our clients. They use a variety of techniques to reach the right people online including search engine optimisation, Google Adwords, social media marketing and email marketing. They then use a variety ... http://www.qrupa.com/partners/on-connection/ The new Qrupa.com is finally online. Please leave comments about content, design and whatever you like, feedback is really important and will be taken with pride or shame. And we never claim someone else's work, so if you feel any of the credits are incorrect, just let us know. http://www.qrupa.com/blog/qrupa/finally-online/ Not often we see good Flash effects, especially image galleries. However this is a nice one and despite being quite complicated it actually works pretty well! And the description on the flipside of each photograph is quite cool as well. You can get a free version which is pretty good or ... http://www.qrupa.com/blog/ontheweb/tiltviewer/ New launch! A giant library of online video clips, accessible via subscription, showcasing the very best international TV, cinema and viral advertising. The library is tailored as a source of information and inspiration for the advertising industry around the world. Built and implemented to an existing design, for a direct ... http://www.qrupa.com/work/the-reel/ We started this project as Vivitar UK and ended up doing the global website. Beginning with concept and copywriting, we then created dozens of different designs. The website is database-driven and contains tons of custom Javascript and Ajax, so displaying the information doesn't require reloading the page. Since we maintain ... http://www.qrupa.com/work/vivitar/