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Posted on October 29, 2009

The Origins of SPAM

The Origins of SPAM

Every morning our email inboxes are laden with it (depending on how good of a spam filter you have) and now even our Facebook and Twitter accounts are plagued with these unwanted messages about teeth whitening and increasing the size of your…well, you know.

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Posted on July 28, 2009

Oh Be Careful Little Fingers What You Tweet

Oh Be Careful Little Fingers What You Tweet

Be careful what you Tweet. It could cost you. That’s something Amanda Bonnen is discovering the hard way…

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Posted on May 12, 2009

Sex, Lies and Photoshop

Sex, Lies and Photoshop

I’ve been working in Photoshop since version 3.0. Photoshop (and design in general) has come a long way. With each new version there are features available to help make my job easier and make the finished product look better. But there is one part of my industry that I’m ashamed of…

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Posted on March 17, 2009

Apple’s Revolutionary New Laptop

Apple’s Revolutionary New Laptop

Apple has done it again. They’ve released a product so revolutionary that it will change the way we think about portable computing. This amazing new laptop does away completely with the keyboard in a move that will send other computer manufacturers scrambling trying to catch up…

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Posted on March 5, 2009

My 3 Favorite iPhone Games

My 3 Favorite iPhone Games

I’m a big fan of fun games for the iPhone/iPod Touch. They’re great for passing time when you’re waiting for a doctor’s appointment or sitting in the car waiting for a certain someone in the grocery store. There have been so many great games released for the iPhone/iPod Touch over the last few months making it the hottest new portable gaming platform. Here’s a few of my current favorites…

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Posted on February 23, 2009

The Great Junkyard In The Sky

The Great Junkyard In The Sky

This is a computer-generated artist’s impression released by the European Space Agency (ESA) that depicts an approximation of 12,000 objects in orbit around the Earth. It’s pretty amazing to think that each of those specks represent hundreds of millions of dollars and serve as some important part of a communications or defense infrastructure…

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Posted on February 5, 2009

How Socially Connected Are You Online?

How Socially Connected Are You Online?

Today’s social media landscape is growing at an amazing rate. I just found this mapped breakdown of today’s popular social media arranged by category. Kinda crazy considering many of them didn’t even exist a few years ago. How many of these social media sites on this map are you conversant in?

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Posted on February 2, 2009

Web App Review: Animoto

Web App Review: Animoto

There’s a host of new web applications coming out every day. Most are just hype but a few really stand out as something unique and useful. Animoto is one that is not only useful but also amazingly easy and fun to use.
Animoto is a web application that creates MTV-style videos with the click of a [...]

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Posted on January 26, 2009

News At A Glance: Newsmap

News At A Glance: Newsmap

Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator, which is a fancy way of saying that Newsmap displays all the top stories visually on one page…

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Posted on January 21, 2009

Rebooting The White House

Rebooting The White House

Yesterday marked the inauguration of not only our first African-American president, but also our most tech-savvy. Obama is the first president to release a web video address, he’s glued to his BlackBerry and is a known Mac enthusiast. So it’s no surprise that one of the first and most public signs of his administration at work was the new WhiteHouse.gov web site that launched yesterday at noon…

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