Archive for the 'Digital' Category

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Bricking up a page

When you create cool stuff, it just has to go viral. With over 4.5 million views and counting, this is a great example of technology garnering our interest and hence reach as we post, share and tweet about cool stuff like this. I think it’s time to get out the old Lego bricks and dig into my tech drawer. Thanks
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Go Deep into the Code

Firefox allows you to go deep into the code visually – specifically into the nesting of tables and divs. How? First right click on an area. You will see the choice to ‘Inspect Element’. In this case it is to look at the profile picture in this Facebook timeline. Now at the bottom of the page to the right you
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Tsk. Tsk. Jerks on Mobiles. [INFOGRAPHIC]

Online College produced an infographic about mobile bad manners. How many of these rules have you violated?

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CSS Scale Your Website for Facebook Page App Call-in

Looking to create a page app that ties directly into your website, but your website is perhaps wider than the he maximum recommended width on a page app of 760 px? To remedy this, create a mirror of your website specifically for your Facebook app to call in. What you want to do is scale down the size of the
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A Bit of Maritime Google Doodle

  Call me proud, but I like it when I see a bit of the Maritimes featured on a national stage. Today, the Hartland Covered Bridge in New Brunswick is having it’s 111th anniversary celebrated with a Google Doodle. The 391m-long covered bridge — the longest in the world — officially opened July 4, 1901, and has spanned the The
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Summer of Learning

A free resource for you coders out there will be available on July 23rd from Aquent and Vitamin Talent. It’s always exciting to learn new things, and summer is the perfect time for working professionals to do so. Things are a bit slower, and with Aquent/Vitamin T’s Summer of Learning, you can hone your skills at your leisure. That’s right.
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Adobe Brackets

Brackets is officially launching today, but I have clearance from Adobe to feel free to start talking about it now. Brackets is an open source code editor for the web from Adobe. It is a web platform technology that is pushing tools for developers and was built using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. So, what makes Brackets different from other web
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Piktochart Gets in on the Infographic Biz

  No doubt you have all seen the latest communication craze of infographics. Taking a complex set of ideas and data and distilling it into a presentation has always been a challenge. One screen at a time was the limit of PowerPoint. With an infographic, you throw that aside and scroll for information, or print it to the wall (a
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Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Threatens Independant Websites

  The following is important enough that I am reposting part of the article Signing the TPP agreement will lock down our Internet and shackle our democracy. What should we do? from OpenMedia.ca. Click through to read the full article and to support individual rights online. Yesterday, the government put Canada’s digital future at risk by signing on to the
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Tablet Users Skew Older and Towards Upper Income Households

Today’s post comes directly from the comScore Data Mine. A free newsletter from metrics big wig comScore. “A demographic analysis of U.S. tablet users found that the heaviest audience concentration was between the ages of 25-44, accounting for 45.8 percent of users. Compared to smartphone owners, tablet users were 28 percent more likely to be in the 65 and older
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