When our clients want blogs we are always very thorough at explaining how maintaining a blog is truthfully a very time consuming task. Sitting in front of a blank wysiwyg editor, at times, makes us bloggers wonder why we do it. Sometimes I convince myself we do it for the readers but other times, such as this time, I’m convinced I do it for myself. It’s actually a great tool for clients to meet you in a one-to-one way, your own little Continue reading »
So I probably should have written this back when @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher) and @cnnbrk(CNN Breaking News) were having their much publicized race to 1 million followers back in April, but I really wanted the hype to die down before blogging about it and looking like I was just jumping on the bandwagon.
Twitter’s been around for a couple of years now and those of us in the industry have been using it (on and off) since then. Now that the cat is out of the bag and the mainstream’s starting to catch on, I feel like I should mention some of the reasons why it’s becoming so popular and why I use it.
Last May Ballmer announced a new rebranding for Microsoft’s search engine. What was once MSN Search and Windows Live, is now Bing. Probably named for the availability for purchase of the non-offensive, semi-sensical, 4 letter domain, Bing is a lot more than just a mere marketing move. Last month I took it upon myself to give this new search initiative a fair chance by using it for a month straight. Here’s my findings.
We usually write about the state of the industry, and the stuff we know, but we’re also very proud of our clients. We like to think that we pick them as much as they pick us. We like working with clients that we would feel safe hiring in some future endeavor. EyeTour has been with us, as a hosting client, since late 2007 when they were still trying to convince people about how great their project is. Since then they’ve secured various sponsors, published many new videos and won very prestigious prizes.
Some of you may ask why we’re always posting pc stuff instead of mac, truthfully we recently started asking ourselves why. It is part of our lifestyle to be around technology but right now Apple only comprises 30% of our life I guess. There are people however, much more into experiencing life with its glossy, rounded corners, these are the team of MacUserBoricua.com.
I recently met some of them in a casual meeting a couple of web designers and developers had this last Saturday. They were all in their MUB t shirts presumably for Continue reading »
I’ve complained before about Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), how it is the bane of the web developer’s existence and the problems I have with it on an almost personal level. It’s many failings nudged me towards alternate browsers such as Firefox and Chrome. In the years since, Mozilla’s growth in the browser market has stirred the sleeping giant into delivering IE8, a great browser with which to get back in the game.
I must have been 13 or 14 years old when my dad gave me my first book on HTML. I started learning tags and code structure, memorizing what went where, lots of trial and error on a notepad file back then. This was of course years before the big companies had given any serious thought to the Internet, when registering a domain cost hundreds and web hosting was an expensive and rare commodity.
The one beacon of hope for enthusiastic teens was Continue reading »
A few months ago I blogged about our old looks towards the future with a nostalgic memory of when I had first seen those videos and impressed by their prescience. Today we look to the future. Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft’s business division gave a presentation last Friday, at the Wharton Business Development Conference, using stunning visual aides reminiscent of those old “The Road Ahead” videos. Here’s a compilation. At the end you’ll see links to 4 more videos covering: Banking, Manufacturing, Health, and Retail, specifically.
This is our kitchen. Yes, our kitchen runs on Ubuntu.
We called a roofer to look at the roof because that’s what roofers do. He told us that although roofing problems where common they could be avoided with close to no maintenance to the roof. He was hired, and now pictures of the kitchen look like the one above. 
Your office/business is where Continue reading »
Ever since I changed the blog’s domain to “Fix The Pixel” I’ve been getting a lot of traffic from the Google search: “How to fix a dead or stuck pixel”. Being that the case, I have created a list of sites that address this problem so you won’t have to do any more searches. Continue reading »
