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Christmas in July

Kate Gingold / Monday, July 25, 2011 0 3335 Article rating: No rating

With the heat wave we've been experiencing in the Midwest it may be hard to contemplate Christmas, but now is the perfect time to plan your holiday marketing. Summer vacations often slow things down in the office which frees you up to do some creative thinking.

Regardless of whether you're a retail or a service business, you can put holiday marketing to work for you. Here's how one of our clients does it:

MicroSoft Makes Universal Like Button, but Google Invented "Like" Years Before

Don Gingold / Monday, May 16, 2011 0 3473 Article rating: No rating

Google's search algorithm has always been based on popularity. It's how they themselves have described it and it's how most SEO companies understand it to work. But now Microsoft has a new way to measure popularity and they're putting it in Bing tomorrow.

Don't Call Me Professor Just Yet!

Don Gingold / Monday, April 4, 2011 0 3668 Article rating: No rating

An old friend and mentor about 20 years ago said "There's a teacher inside of you" and would you believe I'm finally getting around to proving him right?

Apple Mac & OSX vs Microsoft & Windows

James Nagy / Wednesday, March 16, 2011 0 3652 Article rating: No rating

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve answered this question, but people often ask me why I chose an Apple Mac over a Microsoft Windows based machine or sometimes I get the why not some other operating system like Linux?

RGB and CMYK and Web pages

Don Gingold / Thursday, February 17, 2011 0 3786 Article rating: No rating

A friend of mine who's a graphic artist and does a lot of print work asked about CMYK vs RGB.

It started when a webpage photo wouldn't show in a client's browser, but she saw it in her's. The first place to look was reference - was the graphic being referenced from her local disk so she saw it but the rest of the world would not? No, the reference was correct and the file was on the server where it should be, so she asked me what was wrong. She wanted to know if it was a DotNetNuke issue, since the site was built using DNN.

Don at Radio Theatre Show this Weekend

Don Gingold / Monday, February 7, 2011 0 3451 Article rating: No rating

TTDY Radio is back, and I'll be playing this Sunday. We have two great shows back to back: Jack Benny's Horatio Hornblower parody, and George and Gracie meet with Sam Spade, private eye.

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