Category Archives: Internet

Sevnthsin Looking for Backend Developer

Sevnthsin wants you… if you’re a backend developer, that is. We’re looking to expand our team and want to meet enthusiastic, experienced backend developers looking to work with our fun, flexible team here at Sevnthsin. http://jobs.sevnthsin.com

Mpls.-St. Paul WordPress User Group Meeting Registration Up

The first meeting of the Mpls.-St. Paul WordPress User Group is slated for July 30, 2009. We’ll be talking about a slew of WP topics, including: Organizing Wordcamp Twin Cities 2009 Converting rocking HTML Designs into rocking WordPress Templates WordPress Overview for Beginners WordPress as a CMS Details: Minneapolis St. Paul WordPress User Group Kickoff [...]

PNG Product Images?

A question to the community at large. I’ve been asked to give an opinion on the PNG file format. More specifically, if it would be worth it to include a PNG version of products in the process of creating web photo assets. Note that I’m referring to a large number of product images (in the [...]

Strange looking cylinders

USI Wireless is starting to infiltrate my Minneapolis neighborhood, putting up their strange-looking (and ugly) wireless transmitters under the streetlights on my block. Anyone using their service yet, or planning to? I’m loving the “free” Internet at my local coffee shops and libraries, but this could free me up to starting working anywhere at a [...]

GPS-enabled umbrella with internet capabilities

The Japanese have done it again. They’ve created an umbrella with a built-in camera, internet connectivity, and Flickr integration. [source: randomgoodstuff] I can imagine getting lost in the rain while walking is a scenario we’ve all been in numerous times and this is the gadget we’ve been waiting for. My only question- how usable is [...]

I need some web hosting advice…

So I’m a Flash Guy, but here’s my current dilemma. Currently I have no site of of my own. I used to host JakeFreeberg.com off a machine at home, but that’s just a bad solution. It allowed me to play with WordPress and MovableType installs and learn a few things, I really need to put [...]

A Few Insights

The Walker Art Center and AIGA is pairing up again to have their March graphic design lecture series. Insights usually host no surprises for me these days. You’ll have a mix of academia, hip, highly theoretical, and your dull lecturers. Normally I find my self saying, OK, ya, nice work. But it ends up feeling [...]

Crisis: Another Reason Not to Use Flash for Your Website

“A rapid-response web effort has never been more important to crisis communications. That won’t work when home pages of web sites are designed as Flash-driven promotional tools, not information centers.” – Ben McConnell

Flash Developer’s first impressions of Wii’s “Internet Channel”

http://eightandfive.com/2006/12/22/flash-developers-first-impressions-of-wiis-internet-channel/ ( sorry I decided to post to another blog I contribute to, but seems to sort of fit what we’re covering here as well )

Fun With Error Messaging

A while back I was window shopping online at Ikea when I came across their Error message. Instead of feeling frustrated or angry, I was delighted to see this: