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How To Build An Infographic For $279, Not $5000There are certain technical charts, diagrams and other visual media that probably bring back horrible memories of High School aptitude testing and harsh criticism of performance. Fortunately, the present generation of web designers, graphic artists and creative writers have found …
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StupidScope Kills ProjectsMany people are mystified as to why their projects are lagging. Off the top of my head, the general consensus is like 75% of all projects are more than 50% late. There’s a ton of reasons why this occurs. After …
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Fear the Apple TV (in a good way)
We know Apple is poised to release a TV integrated with some mutation of iOS mid-way thru next year. Judging by the existing “Apple TV” product (which is sort of a stripped down iMac that you connect to your existing …
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CEOs are generally slow, stoopid, and anti-good
Overblown & obnoxious opinion mode: ON. Continue at your own risk and realize it is likely that you will be offended no matter who you are. I read frequently about one-trick companies like Nokia, HP, Rim, Yahoo, and BofA that …
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Enlightening Infographic on Page Loads
Check out this infographic. Page load speed is critical to conversions. Click to get the large version
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Failure Meter at Code Red: Effortless User Experience
If your site / app / software does not have an “effortless” user experience, consider it a failure. If it hasn’t failed yet, it will soon. Now “effortless” is a subjective term and it’s got a lot of aliases out …
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HOWTO: Print an entire website
If you need to print out an entire website, here is a little trick. You’ll need the full version of Acrobat though. I did this using Acrobat X Pro, but I believe this works all the way back to Acrobat …
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Who is Jobs 2.0? Bezos, of course!
Steve Jobs was a really cool and important icon of our ultra-tech times. The press treated him quite favorably and not just because they all own Apple equipment, but because he made their easy job even easier. Tech reporters have …
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Zuckerberg Wisdom
In an interview that was widely covered on TechCrunch (and where I pulled these quotes from), Mark Zuckerberg offered some great insight into his early years in the Valley. Say what you will about the man (I’ve never seen …
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htaccess Generator automates 301′s
If you don’t know what an “.htaccess” file is, then count yourself lucky. However, if you ever have the unenjoyable task of creating one (due to 301 redirects or a domain change), I’ve found a tool that ought to save …
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Netflix is a diabetic eating at MacDonalds & HP has a brain
This week, I have repeated two statements I thought I would never utter. No, I didn’t say “hey, that’s one badass Camry you have there” — but it’s damn close. Statement 1: HP is perceptive & brilliant. Realizing they had …
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Entrepreneur, Thou Art Toolish, part 2
Directly on the coattails of my previous post, I am ready to call out another common failure point for entrepreneurs. Major mistake #2 is approaching your web developer / partners / bank / focus group with baseless (or undetermined) pricing. …
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Entrepreneur, Thou Art Toolish, part 1
I’m starting a new series of blog posts cataloging enormous or classic blunders that I’ve witnessed firsthand. These are the mistakes that entrepreneurs made in their ventures that unequivocally caused a project to fail. But this isn’t me just sitting …
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Apple Boosts Piracy Thru iCloud
Apple pulled their automated online storage solution, iCloud, out of beta today. It allows users to effortlessly gain safe storage for all their files. Like Dropbox, iCloud seamlessly backs up and restores your important pictures, video, documents, email, and music. …
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Google Music? … prep for the RIAA and Amazon takedown
Yesterday at the Google I/O Conference, the big boys announced that they were giving the finger to the RIAA and building a music download service in the cloud. This is pretty enormous because nobody other than a giant like all-seeing …
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