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Streamlined Modern or Realistic Traditional? The Difference Between Skeuomorphism and Flat Design
Graphic design has come leaps and bounds in the last decade thanks to exciting developments in technology and software. Relatedly, web design has incorporated these updates as well, offering website designers many more tools to work with when creating new web pages. Some of these trends still have the jury out on their utility and durability in the competitive market of web design.
Don’t Let Technology De-Humanize Your Business
New technologies may increase overall efficiency and reduce operating costs, but taking away the human element from your business may do more harm than good. As businesses begin to replace human employees with technology applications such as credit card readers and tablets because of increasing wage costs, businesses must still remember the importance of great customer service—which begins with a human connection. Think customer service doesn’t matter? One company that has felt the sting because of a lack of great customer service is Sears, which reported a $3.1 billion loss in 2012, according to Ashley Lutz of Business Insider. The business has an 86 percent unsatisfied, one-out-of-five star rating on…
ICU – A New Way of Restoring Desktop Icon Layout
Suppose you have categorized the desktop icons according to your desire and the very next time you start up the Windows, you only find that the icons have been arranged differently. Doesn't it happen all time? Windows keeps on re-arranging the desktop icons every time it is started. This can happen, if you add some new icons to your desktop or install some new software and so on. You might be bored of arranging and re-arranging your desktop icons time and again.
Top Tech Trends of 2011 [Infographic]
The year 2011 brought many changes to the tech industry. Such tech trends as group buying, geolocation apps, or tablets revolutionized the whole industry. Other major tech trends include cloud computing and cloud based productivity apps, online video in enterprise, online Q&A, crowdfunding, and mobile photo sharing apps.
Easy Tech Support – Part 5: Finding Information
In this fifth and final part of the easy tech support series, the folks from Google focus on ways to find information on… you guessed it… Google. It may seem like a lot of self-advertising, but they present us with lots of different useful Google services that show up in specific Google searches.
Easy Tech Support – Part 4: Media
Various Google services are introduced, which can be used for digital media managing and sharing. For example Google Docs can be used to share large media files such as photos and videos to a group of friends or family. YouTube is another alternative for videos and Picasa is for photos.
Easy Tech Support – Part 3: Communication
In this post, most of the videos are centered around Google's email service, Gmail. However, most email services work in a similar way, so the videos would still be helpful for non-gmail users. For example, if you know someone that might be vulnerable to phishing scams, send them the video titled: "How to know if an email is real".
What to do when your WordPress update failed [Tutorial]
Yesterday when I was updating one of my WordPress blogs the automatic update failed and was stuck in maintenance mode. What to do when this happens? First of all, don’t panic! Your blog is not lost for ever, or anything like that. Even if you haven’t backed up your blog’s files and its database (like recommended by WordPress), it is still possible to fix the update fail issue in a few easy steps. Of course if you had backed up your files and database then you could simply restore them and try an automatic update again. In fact some web hosts will regularly backup everything for you. They also have…
Old Funny Bill Gates Quotes
Perhaps the Most Truthful: on Microsoft marketing: "There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go."