Technology & Web

It will be interesting to see how musicians attempt to re-invent the industry and try to cut out the middle men with the major labels that usually have all the control. $15 will get you the MP3s and $15,000 will get them to visit your home. If anyone has an extra $15k for some great entertainment,…

They’ve hit again! A new stream of mailers posing as invoices recently flooded the mailboxes of some of our clients. The responsible company, DNS Services, goes on a rampage every couple of months, trying to trick people into forking over control of their domain names and DNS. It’s not until you read the fine print…

I’m so pleased when others help to outline the most important tips to access fast, quality searches. Shoemoney.com recently outlined some quick ways to use Google search more effectively. OR word or “|” character  – enables you to search for variants Tilde (~) character – uses synonyms.  So like lets say your looking for a…

Last week, we tried out Google Chrome’s Speech Recognition feature to see how it performed. We thought it was decent, but not capable of lengthy sentences. It also made some funny mistakes! We just received our new Apple Macbook Pro with Retina Display. It comes with Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion, which includes built in…

Crazy days when we can speak to our machines and have them actually understand us… Even more crazy when that dictation functionality is free. I wonder how Nuance/Dragon feels about this. http://ctrlq.org/dictation/ (with Chrome only) Update: Here’s the results from Sonia’s recipe reading… Original magazine recipe: Dictation results (using Chrome app):

When I see a company doing something right, I always want to write about it. Of course, it’s pretty fun to write about those who get it wrong too! But I’ll save that for another post 🙂 My Experience I recently experienced excellent customer service from Brabantia, who makes our cool and beautiful Touch Bin.…

We often hear from company leaders asking how and why their company should use social media in their business. With employee recruitment and turnover costs reaching beyond $3000 on average (according to the Wall Street Journal), recruiting talented employees through social media is a no-brainer. In fact, we’ve been saddened that so many companies have…

Determining a URL to represent you or your company is no small task. Besides selecting a name that is representative of your goods, services, or values, you want something memorable, searchable, and SEO friendly. But what if ignoring some of these rules actually helps you to stand out? The key to breaking from the norm…

It is a beautiful tool most of the time, allowing for notes for all the iOS devices and desktop machines, however when someones internet goes down, this was the last thing I expected. Consider this a warning. I suppose it has something to do with syncing notes and non-syncing notes. In the past I’m almost…

I haven’t done a crazy review of everything, however after some research at this very point in time, it appears that the cream of the crop for quick and helpful note taking are below. Any other suggestions are welcome. We’ll be checking these out immediately however. Notability Penultimate Note Taker HD Dropbox synchronization and friendliness…

An interesting challenge I’ve been dealing with lately has been translating techie products to senior management and company leaders in feature magazine articles. The reason why this is a challenge: The magazine also reaches tech staff, so we don’t the article to be over-simplified. It’s hard to differentiate the product without covering some of the…

I was really excited to find out that a video that I scripted and helped produce is now available on YouTube. It was put together by the St. Louis Family and Community Partnership to help recruit foster parents. We went to several families and interviewed them on why they foster children and what benefits it…

My husband is the geek who is normally glued to the screen every time new software or hardware comes out. But this time, I’m the one who’s excited! Thanks to Terry White, a trainer for Adobe and excellent blogger, we got a sneak peek of the top five new features in all of the new…

In the past few days, there’s been a somewhat heated discussion on Linked In about companies expecting creative firms to give away their design ideas on RFPs—before getting paid or selected, of course! The discussion was expanded to all RFPs and many different people, ranging from consultants to CFOs commented their varying views. I wanted…

I recently connected my personal website and Twitter accounts to my Facebook page, and I’ve noticed a lot more feedback on my posts. This got me thinking… if Facebook continues to grow in popularity and the amount of time spent, will it outrank Google in terms of reaching potential clients and customers? Will it become…

I was excited to see that WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. It’s a great tool! As WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg said in his post, “This is a landmark for us…it marks a shift in the public perception of WordPress, from blog software…

Since I’ve been working with my husband’s web development company for the past two years, I’ve met with many clients as they develop marketing plans and consider website improvements. Interestingly enough, it seems that many companies have it backwards… they put more emphasis on the tangible print or sales presentations and less emphasis on their…

A big part of running a small business is managing accounting. For those of us who are creative types, this can be a bit of a challenge. Most companies, however, buy accounting software like Quickbooks, MYOB, Peachtree, or one of the new online services like Freshbooks. When I started this company, my husband and I…