Category Archives: Technology
Facebook Powerball Lotto Prank – Greatest in history?
Who didn’t hear about the Powerball drawing last week? Chances were you had a ticket and were waiting just like I was to find out I just became super rich. I had even started to think about what I’d spend it on and what I’d give away. I think I settled on giving half of [...]
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Online Shopping Apps
We found more great apps to make holiday shopping easier this year! Luckily, the mobile world we live in has changed the game of holiday shopping. Why fight crowds when you can shop from a recliner while eating a turkey sandwich? Check out these apps that help keep your shopping in the palm of [...]
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Holiday Shopping Apps
With a majority of American adults owning a smartphone, it’s no surprise that the biggest new trend in holiday shopping is what retailers have termed “showrooming”. What is it? Showrooming is when people will browse items at a real store and then check on their mobile devices to find cheaper prices online. In fact, [...]
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Facebook Users Most Active at 3:00 p.m.
When are people most active on Facebook? According to Virtue, a social media company, Facebook users are most active at 3:00 p.m. Could this be due to at-work afternoon boredom? Probably not. Most research suggests that 65% of Facebook users access the site when they’re not at work or school, indicating that in order to [...]
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Facebook Launches “Pages Only” News Feed
After feeling the heat from several businesses, marketing firms and even Mark Cuban, Adweek reports that Facebook has launched a “Pages Only” News Feed for brands to reach out to their fans. According to Readwrite, Dallas Mavericks owner and tech billionaire Mark Cuban recently tweeted a screen grab of Facebook wanting to charge $3,000 to [...]
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Five Tips for SEO When Using a CMS
Content Management Systems (CMS), such as Drupal and WordPress, have SEO plugins available for marketing professionals to use in order to optimize a website. According to searchengineland.com, there are certain features that should not be overlooked when choosing a CMS and SEO package. 1. Custom page titles and alt tags. Any popular CMS will provide [...]
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Which CMS is Right For You?
Open source content management systems (CMS) have changed the game when it comes to building a website. The right CMS can enable a business to make changes to their own website easily and quickly without knowing HTML. A CMS can allow you to add images, build a shopping cart, and congratulate your employee who just [...]
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Quickly Get the Hex Code for a color in Mountain Lion
If you ever need to quickly get the hex color code of something, to add it to a CSS file perhaps, here’s a quick way to do it in OSX Mountain Lion. Open DigitalColor Meter, it’s under Utilities in the Applications menu. Change the view to hexadecimal, View > Display Values > as Hexadecimal. Then [...]
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Companies Need More Than Just Clever Ads
Having a strong online presence has never been more important. With the rise of social media and the popularity of mobile internet, consumers are getting their information from a variety of places. Just a few years ago, a company could get away with running a few TV or radio ads to boost sales. These days, [...]
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What is Google Panda?