Mismatched Headlines and Banners
Sometimes auto-generated headlines and images for Banner Ads are complete mismatches. Here is one I came across this morning from iStock.
“Over 9 million images that are beautiful, affordable and…” filled with fire, destruction and the end of humanity! But…hey they are beautiful! (not to mention they are SAFE to download! What a relief.)
Here [...] Continue Reading…
Dear Amazon,
I’ve been a Kindle reader since September 2010. I love it. The point of reading an analog book (paper book) has been completely overshadowed by the utility I’ve found in being able to digitally highlight phrases, sentences, words and quotes on the Kindle–and then search those things later–on [...] Continue Reading…
If there is one thing that History has taught us…it’s that while totalitarian regimes enslave, murder and starve their citizens they can muster great leaps forward with their technology.
For example Nazi Germany with the V2 rocket program and Russia with the Sputniks. Both of which soundly beat the West with [...] Continue Reading…
Every year Godaddy reminds me that I have a habit–a costly obsession. Some people collect baseball cards. Some collect tea cups. Others collect stamps, or books, or bottles of booze, or sex partners, or…shoes.
I, on the other hand, collect domains. Here is a tiny look into my trove of [...] Continue Reading…
The Best Books I Read in 2011
Your 2011 might have been BIG. Or your 2011 might have been small. Mine was more like a resetting of priorities. With my divorce finalized and my focus on writing returned…I was able to dive into more books this year than ever. If you’re looking for a list of [...] Continue Reading…
This is a letter I wrote to a friend of mine earlier this week. Of late he has been under pressure from some Web Development Companies trying to get him to pay them to build a new website. While his need for a new website is definitely there, his [...] Continue Reading…
So you’ve got a new book in your Archived items on your Kindle. But for some reason every time you try to download that new purchase you get the message “Sorry your book cannot be downloaded at this time. Please try again later.”
Turning the Kindle on and off doesn’t [...] Continue Reading…
With over 71% of iPad owners playing games, it’s no wonder the top articles on my blog have to do with games on the iPad. So for the sake of research, for you, I have yet again taken one for the team. For the past month I’ve been playing games [...] Continue Reading…
Traditionally, designers have used static mockups and flow diagrams to demonstrate how a website will look and work. The problem with this approach is you can’t fully test or communicate an interactive, hypertext experience (a website) with non-interactive tools (comps, paper and back-of-the napkin sketches).
Up until a couple of [...] Continue Reading…
Here is a great little trick for those of you stuck on the road without your beloved second monitor.
This is especially excellent if you travel with a MacBook air.
Now you can connect your ipad to your Mac (wirelessly) and use it as an external monitor. As long as you are within [...] Continue Reading…
