My thoughts on business, marketing, and web development

Gmail SuperStars: Productivity Tweak for Email Ninjas

Communication, Featured, ToolBox Feb 16, 2010 7 Comments

Our lives have been taken over by email – everything from work tasks to notifications letting you know a friend posted something on Facebook. You undoubtedly use Gmail, like any smart person would, and already enjoy the many benefits it has to offer: world class spam protection, email filters, labels, automatically getting email from other [...]

The Ultimate List of 22+ DIY iPhone Docks & Stands

Apple, Featured, ToolBox, Videos Dec 07, 2009 4 Comments

I became an iPhone user back in September and have naturally been obsessed with everything “iPhone” ever since – in particular, DIY (Do It Yourself) iPhone / Touch docks & stands. I recently set up and configured, what I humbly call, my “ultimate home office” (pics coming soon) and my new iPhone just didn’t seem [...]

Light Up The World

General, Videos Jul 13, 2009 4 Comments

I love this video from STUDIONE26. The symbolism of one’s light spreading to others can be interpreted in various ways, but regardless as to how you see or relate this to any one particular thing, I love the simplistic and quiet representation shown here. My wife and I were talking the other day about how [...]

The Courtesy of “No Thank You”

Business, Communication, General Jun 17, 2009 11 Comments

We try to teach our kids good manners. One thing we teach them to say is “no, thank you”. It’s not a big deal to say “no, thank you” and move on. So, when between childhood and adulthood did people forget how to say “no, thank you”? We’ve all been there before. Somebody offers you [...]

How to Make JQuery & Prototype Play Nice

Web Development Mar 31, 2009 27 Comments

I’m sure you’ve seen some of the sweetness of JQuery and most likely you’ve used Prototype for dynamic web applications like Lightview, Prototip, etc. However, let’s say we want to use the two together, on the same page. Problemo! The Problem JQuery uses a “$” as a shortcut for “jQuery” and Prototype uses “$” as [...]