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Grocery Gripe

Added by KaiLee Viehland on January 9th, 2012, filed under Technology

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I’m sure I’m one of the millions who hate grocery shopping. I dread going and there always seems to be something else I’d rather do. I wait until I am completely out of everything to go. Apparently, even people continents away share my mutual hatred of grocery shopping. In South Korea, an advertising agency’s client [...]

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WTF Mobile Web

Added by Brooke Tuttle on January 5th, 2012, filed under Technology

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Does it bother you when you go to a website on your phone and there is no mobile friendly version? Since mobile browsing is only increasing having a site that adapts to the small screen is becoming imperative. I found a website dedicated to calling people out on their terrible (or great, but less often [...]

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Siri, can you tell your fanboys the iPhone’s camera will not replace a DSLR?

Added by Brad Luttrell on December 30th, 2011, filed under Technology

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In a little over a decade the camera has made a century’s worth of headway – we went from film, to digital, to mobile, and for the most part photography has benefitted. During the London subway bombings in 2005, cell phone cameras brought in a new era of community journalism, allowing civilians to quickly capture [...]

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How ‘Retina Display’ affects CSS pixels

Added by Brooke Tuttle on December 28th, 2011, filed under Technology

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‘Retina display’s pixel density is so high, your eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels.’ – Apple Inc. With the advent of high pixel density displays, i.e. the iPhone 4 ‘Retina Display’ and many more sure to follow the pixel itself is now a relative unit. I always thought of a pixel as on dot [...]

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The Death of Flash … again?

Added by Anthony Bouvier on December 13th, 2011, filed under Technology

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Oh no! Not the death bell for Flash … again. Adobe announced that it is going to stop pursuing and enhancing the Flash Player for mobile browsers. They’ll concentrate on HTML5 authoring tools for mobile browsers (Webkit, Opera, etc). This has of course fired up the anti-Flash bandwagon ranting all over the web. Of course, [...]

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We’re an app making machine

Added by Anthony Bouvier on December 5th, 2011, filed under Technology

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We’re an app making machine! In the past 8 weeks the Geek Suite, and of course CurrentMarketing as a whole, has produced 2 mobile sites, 2 iPhone / Android apps, and 1 iPad app for a single client.  Start to finish, concept to execution, in 8 weeks.  How’s that for productivity? They’ve been a joy [...]

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Adobe 100% FAIL

Added by Donovan Sears on December 2nd, 2011, filed under Technology

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I recently had the displeasure of dealing with Adobe wile trying to UPGRADE my existing CS5 suite. Below is the exact transcript showing how ridiculous the process was. Particularly maddening considering how expensive (read: OVER PRICED) the software is. Read on….

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Go Crazy, Good Sir: A Response to A. Bouvier

Added by Jason McFarland on November 29th, 2011, filed under Technology

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In a recent blog post on this site, one A. Bouvier posed the question that has been lurking in the backs (and fronts) of minds everywhere: “Is it OK to go HTML5 crazy?”  Those winged words left our browser screens and echoed across the Commonwealth and north across the Ohio River, seeming simply to dissipate [...]

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The Perils of Application Frameworks and Functionality-Biased Programmers

Added by Jason McFarland on November 23rd, 2011, filed under Technology

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So I completed work on a mobile app not too long ago—it’s always an enjoyable and gratifying experience to deliver projects to our clients.  This time, however, there was a catch. For this particular app we had initially decided to try out a framework that uses HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript to replicate the look and [...]

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Making chips…feelin’ the flow

Added by KaiLee Viehland on November 17th, 2011, filed under Branding, Creative, Technology

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What would it take to get you to choose one brand of potato chips over another? When standing in your grocer’s aisle, contemplating the perfect brand and flavor for an afternoon snack, you may ask yourself, “How do I know which one is for me?” “How can I be sure if the ingredients are real [...]

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