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Category Archives: Neat Ideas

We’re not competing for pie.

May 16, 2011 – 10:27 am

I love competition.  The thrill of victory & agony of someone else making the money. Fact is, while we might find ourselves often competing for customers; there’s enough to go around.  On top of which, we bring our own unique personality and proprietary talents. Each experience is (or should be) unique to the customer.  Unless [...]

By tdolaskie | Also posted in Commentary, Humor, Tips for Businesses, Uncategorized | Comments Off

HTML5 and Google pull off something new

October 23, 2010 – 10:07 pm

It’s rare that I’m really impressed by a new music video, or song. Or at least, that I feel like I’m seeing or hearing something new. The same can be said of the Web. Most websites share a majority of common factors in one way or another. The band Arcade Fire, director Chris Milk, and [...]

By Nathan Lyle | Also posted in Commentary, News | Comments Off

Making Web Searches More Fun

December 8, 2009 – 12:22 pm

The Google Wonder Wheel is an expansion to the Google search that I heard of recently that allows searches to have a different user interface that automatically suggests multiple related searches and displays them in a kind of chart form. You really have to try it out to understand. All you have to do is [...]

By Kenric | Also posted in Software | Comments (2)

Backing Up Your Google Data May Soon Be Easier

November 5, 2009 – 3:58 pm

Hopefully this story will become more common in the near future with online services besides Google. From webmonkey.com comes a story about letting users have free reign over their own data, an approach that would make sense to most people, but not always companies. The article “Pack Up Your Data and Leave Whenever You Want, [...]

By Kenric | Also posted in News | Comments Off

It’s Curtains! (Disguise long image load times with some javascript and CSS that pretends to be Flash.)

September 11, 2009 – 10:34 pm

If there’s no way around a few large images in your design, but you don’t want the page to load piecemeal, here’s a way to cover them up while they’re loading, with a familiar looking “flash” style curtain. Basically, what this does is use Javascript to cover the page with a styled DIV (the curtain) [...]

By Nathan Lyle | Also posted in Code/Design | Comments Off