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Death By Acute PowerPoint Poisoning

While working on a new presentation this week, I’m reminded of a comment a former boss of mine made while I was creating PowerPoint slides for her presentation. As we were discussing the project she asked me to help her avoid “death by acute PowerPoint poisoning.” After we both briefly chuckled, she explained to me [...]

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The Shack?

Long the place to conveniently purchase (though rather expensive-ish) audio and video cables, your local Radioshack will soon be changing names. Rather, it’ll be shortened by two syllables  as “The Shack” in a rebranding strategy that surely aims to hip-up the 87-year-old brand.
According to wikipedia (currently the only original source):
This will be kicked off by [...]

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Internet Explorer 8, web standards and how its going to cost you less

Contrary to popular belief the internet is not the Wild West. It does in fact have a governing body and rules of conduct.
According to this current tally 43.3% of all desktop web users use some version of Internet Explorer to browse the web. Another 46.6% use the Firefox web browser.
Governance for these browsers is provided [...]

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Tropicana: How NOT to Rebrand

You may have noticed a redesigned Tropicana Premium Orange juice carton at the grocery store. The classic carton with a straw stuck in an orange was recently replaced with what was proclaimed to be a more streamlined, clean design.
The total image redesign was orchestrated by Pepsi-Co, who owns Tropicana, with hopes of revitalizing sales for [...]

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Does Flash make your website flashy?

When it comes to using Flash on a website, I almost always advocate against it if there are other ways to obtain the same result. Why? Flash hasn’t kept up with the constant pace of innovation on the internet. It is frequently slow to load and most “smart phones” have little or no flash support [...]

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