Treat your customers’ dogs well — it’s great branding
Being good to your customers’ dogs isn’t just a nice thing to do — it’s also great branding. My dogs can hear the UPS truck coming way before it arrives. They jump up in unison and run to the door,...
View ArticleI’ll be on the Hot Seat at the Content Marketing Meetup
I’ll be on the Hot Seat at the Austin Content Marketing Meetup on Friday, June 24 (noon, at the Flying Saucer in the Triangle). Several folks have asked what I’ll be talking about. This particular...
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Live Website Analysis at RISE Austin
On Friday, March 30, I’ll be holding another session of live website analysis during RISE Austin. I first held “Room for Improvement” at the last BlogathonATX. It was such a hit, I’ll be doing again at...
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Find your lost phone or get out of a boring meeting
I haven’t had a land line since the early 00s. The only time I miss it is when I lose my mobile phone. I check every room, I check under piles of paper, I check the fridge, but I can’t find it. I no...
View ArticleCommentary on logos from a 5-year-old
She’s pretty damn perceptive! And I have to admit that it never occurred to me to think of the McDonald’s logo as an M “made of french fries.” The post Commentary on logos from a 5-year-old appeared...
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Escape
A little humor for your Monday morning :) The post Escape appeared first on Jules Says.
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How to lose an app sale: use bad typography for a typography app
Type It! is an iPad app that promises to turn your photos into beautiful typography. I don’t believe you, Type It! As a huge iPad fan and type geek, I’d normally buy this app without a second thought....
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Easily measure the pixel size of any part of a web page
How often have you wondered what the pixel measurement of a given image or space was on a web page? How wide is that column? How much room do I have for a banner? Kevin A. Freitas has created a...
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The decline of usability in OS X and iOS
Apple’s UX/UI has been getting worse for a while now. There were changes to iOS 7 that I really didn’t like, but I figured I’d get used to them. I didn’t. iOS 8 had a handful of annoyances I assumed...
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Workaround for the missing Open With… option in Apple Photos
Another UI Fail from Apple. Photos has no Open With… option. I’m sure I’m not the only one who used this in iPhoto all the damn time. What reason could there possibly be for this change? You can export...
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