Too close for missiles; switching to guns….
If you own or run an online business you probably understand, if only on a basic level, how important it is to communicate with your current and potential customer base. If you don't, you really need to spend some time boning up on your basic eMarketing principals. What a lot of companies seem to forget … Read more
I started playing around with a random grid project the other week when I came across a desktop I really like that is comprised of a grid of randomly placed blocks with an image built into the grid made of lighter blocks. The desktop is over at Vlad Studios, and is still one of my … Read more
Looking for a functional way to get IE 8 and IE 7 to run on my machine today, I found the IE Tester project, and I have to say that for an all in one IE testing app, it works quite well. Up until today the only tool I had at my disposal was Multiple … Read more
The world doesn't need another web browser. As a web designer this move by Google to further tighten their stranglehold on the web is annoying as hell. With the addition of Google Chrome to the wonderful world of the interwebs, this simply means there will be another browser than will need to be develop and … Read more
I recently struck up a conversation with our Ad Agency at work about using QR Codes in our coming campaigns, and it got me all excited about them again. In 1994, Denso-Wave created a two dimensional code called QR codes (QR for Quick Response), which are currently the leading type of 2D code used in … Read more
This is another reason why I think the iPhone is a better mobile device than any other available by the collective knuckleheadery of the industry, it does a ton of cool; albeit useless, things. iHologram works by assuming a constant viewing angle (35-45 degrees), typical for when the device is placed on a tabletop. The … Read more
This next clip from EA Games and Tiger Woods is pure genius! That clips illustrates exactly how companies should market to communities at the social network level – especially if they want get the results of their efforts to go viral. It's so easy to get it wrong, come off looking like you're trolling (because, … Read more
I love what I do; designing and developing RIAs and complete sites is the Cherry on top of my list of jobs that fall into the category of the anti-job. Simply put, my job for the most part is not work for me in the traditional sense. It is at times very difficult, stressful, involving … Read more
Let's face it, Flickr has brought photography to the front lines again with its friendly and accessible interface providing a visual platform for more than 1 million users and some 30 million photographs*. Even with the UI's celebrity for being one of the easiest to use on the web, it's a daunting task to be … Read more
After getting past the initial urge to play on the name; cuil (pronounced cool), it's not that bad of a search engine. The design is top rate, and an image next to the returned results is nice as well, but like many others: your results may vary. I have been playing around with for an … Read more
At long last I have finally finished the design and Flash work for my new portfolio/freelance site – Perubique.com. I started working on it about 2 months ago (june 8th or so actually) now, so it has been a long time coming. So now I sit here, enjoying my IBC Black Cherry soda, basking in … Read more
I have, in the past, written at some length about SEO tactics for Flash development, which now thanks to Adobe, Yahoo and Google has just gotten quite a bit more in-depth and practical. On the first of July Adobe released technology to Google and Yahoo to help them along with their crawlers to be able … Read more
As a web designer, I have done built quite a lot of sites, and designed many more, yet I still find it more time consuming and difficult to design and build my own web site than any other sites I design and/or build. Which begs the question: should web designers design their own web sites? … Read more
It has been reported that there is a code injection vulnerability in the latest version of the Adobe Flash player (9.0.124.0) by researchers at the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center and Symantec. The vulnerability could allow for remote code execution, and so far it seems like the in-the-wild results are redirects to one of three … Read more
It's taken me a few days to decompress and restore to the organized chaos of my life. Okay, that's a sham – it's all chaos. I live for this type of interaction with ideas and people within the industry, even if I do utterly suck at interacting with groups of people where I don't know … Read more