Tools and Technology

Are Bookmarks Dead?

By |2017-07-15T13:16:55-04:00October 3rd, 2011|Tools and Technology|

I’ve more or less converted to a Mac fanboy these days, but I still have a PC in my home office that I use for those programs that will only run on Windows (full disclosure: games, for the most part), and just the other night, with some time to kill, I sat down at my [...]

On Archiving

By |2017-07-15T13:16:56-04:00September 5th, 2011|Tools and Technology|

I was in a college library recently, and pulled out a tome that clearly hadn’t seen much action in recent years. It turned out not to be relevant to what I was searching for, and I was about to blithely replace it on its shelf, when I spotted a newish piece of paper sticking partially [...]

Search and Email Still Above Social Media

By |2017-07-15T13:16:57-04:00August 15th, 2011|Research, Tools and Technology|

In August 2011, the Pew Internet Project released findings from their May 2011 Internet Survey that found 92% of online adults use two online features: email (61% on an average day) and search engines to find information on the web (59% on an average day). Given the growth of the smartphone market and mobile access, increased [...]

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Alan Haberman: From Bar Codes to QR Codes

By |2017-07-15T13:16:58-04:00June 20th, 2011|Tools and Technology|

Image via Wikipedia This post is a bit of a departure from anything I’ve written previously. On Sunday, Alan Haberman, the man who was responsible for introducing the bar code, or universal product code — U.P.C., to the United States in 1973, passed away at the age of 81 in Massachusetts. You might [...]

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Geek blog post topics: Help me choose

By |2017-07-15T13:16:58-04:00May 30th, 2011|Tools and Technology|

I'm not a writer, I'm a web developer, so blog posts don't come easily to me every time. Usually, my blog post topics here have been about things of a geeky nature, which is something I can get a little excited about since I like what I do for a living. The first few came [...]

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Anti-Piracy: Does Anybody Win?

By |2017-07-15T13:17:00-04:00May 16th, 2011|Tools and Technology|

Adobe recently announced that its upcoming release of the popular (and industry standard) Creative Suite will have a new purchasing option. You will be able to subscribe on a monthly basis, and they will rent you a license to the software. This is, of course, good for designers without a lot of cash on-hand — [...]

Who is Rich Snippet and should you get to know him?

By |2017-07-15T13:17:01-04:00May 2nd, 2011|Tools and Technology, Website Design and Development|

Image by Smithsonian Institution via Flickr Rich Snippet is a form of structured data that Google can use on its search results pages. It allows for a consistent, attractive display of information. The concept has been around since 2009, but has been slow to evolve perhaps because of foot-dragging on Google's part, and [...]

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