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 [...]
One of the first things you learn to do in web development is make sure everything works. Do all of your links work correctly? Do all of your images show up? And as your website progresses and grows, is someone linking to one of my pages that doesn’t exist anymore? Or are people looking for [...]
A few weeks ago I learned about a great Gmail feature that allows you to filter your email with personalized email addresses using a plus sign. For example, if you think you’ll be spammed by signing up for something like a forum, you could sign up with the email username+forum@gmail.com and setup a filter to [...]
My grandfather had a great business insight a number of years ago- people love having stuff even if there’s no room to put it. He built some self storage units on some extra land and has been successfully renting them ever since. One of my personal goals over the past year has been to simply [...]
My day has been filled with people misusing technology tools as common as voicemail and email, and as “cutting edge” as Facebook statuses and Twitter. I’m not an expert or guru or ninja at any of them, but I’d like to think I pay enough attention to see how people are using these tools and [...]
