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Archive for October, 2009

What To Do With Your Full Time Capsule

What do you get when you cross a Mac­book Pro with a 500 GB hard drive with a 500 GB Time Cap­sule? A slim mar­gin for back ups. I knew this day was going to come when I upgraded from my old Mac­book that just had a 60 GB hard drive. Now, I have the […]

5 Job Posting Tips To Keep Designers And Developers At Bay

UPDATE: If you don’t feel like read­ing this, just watch this video instead. It’s the same mes­sage. Before I start, I’m sorry to any expe­ri­enced design­ers and devel­op­ers who have read these dozens and dozens of times before. Sadly, the lay­men still con­tin­u­ally make these mis­takes so every cou­ple months begin­ner blog­gers like me have […]

How to Include Your Latest DailyBooth.com Photo on Your Blog or Website

As you might expect, when you are an investor in a new com­pany you are privy to fea­tures unbe­knownst to the pub­lic. AJ Vayn­er­chuk, part­ner at Vayn­er­me­dia, tweeted some­thing the other day that got me dig­ging into his site’s source code. What I found was a sim­ple way to dis­play your lat­est photo from DailyBooth.com!

Ditching My Daily Snapshot Script for DailyBooth.com

Every night at 9pm my Mac­book fires up Photo Booth to take a snap­shot and import it into iPhoto. I’ve been doing this since Decem­ber 19th, 2007 and have accu­mu­lated 275 pho­tos (some days my com­puter was off and other days no one was around to be cap­tured so I didn’t keep the photo). I […]

The Importance of a Unique Avatar

An avatar or pro­file pic­ture is one of the first things peo­ple rec­og­nize and allows them to imme­di­ately estab­lish some sort of con­nec­tion with you. It acts like your per­sonal logo to brand who you are. Whether it’s your AIM buddy icon, Face­book pro­file pic­ture, or Twit­ter avatar, it should be the most unique thing […]