So it’s finally official. Printing at home is becoming more expensive, which seems odd to me since print related companies should be spending more time adding value to print products rather than sponging every last cent they can for profits. Everyone knows that inkjet cartridges are ridiculously overpriced, but now we know that HP has [...]
Yesterday, my wife, Melissa, visited Barnes & Noble to pick up some training books as she prepares herself to run a marathon in Disney World. Like many families, we often struggle with eating healthy consistently and diet will obviously play an essential role in Melissa’s training. While sifting through books, she came across an information-packed [...]
A children’s book about the election process is about to become physical reality thanks to Kickstarter, the wildly successful fundraising website. The author, Nick Dazé studied English at USC. He began writing about Roger Nix when he was still in college. The idea came to him in the summer, while watching coverage of the 2004 [...]
I’ve been waiting a long time for The Dark Knight Rises trailer to finally arrive. Obviously, this is going to be an amazing summer for blockbuster movies, but Christopher Nolan’s epic conclusion is the one I’ve been most anticipating. The Avengers is a close second though. The trailer focuses on Baine’s destruction of Gotham City [...]
This is the best list of tips for photographers I’ve ever seen. This list of tips, advice, rules and just things to know about photography are from Eric Kim, a street photographer who also holds photography workshop classes. 1. Just because someone has an expensive camera doesn’t mean that they’re a good photographer. 2. Always [...]
So, one of my biggest difficulties as a web designer is typography and dealing with fonts. In the beginning, our website’s CSS was clean, but as time progresses new features and functionality is added by different developers. Eventually, our website was reeked with thirteen different font sizes and six font types. 13 and 6. A [...]
Facebook is unquestionably the most successful social network on the planet and is expected to IPO at a $100 billion valuation on May 17th. I hadn’t even considered buying FB stock until Zuckerberg’s recent purchase of Instagram, which was-but-maybe-not-anymore my favorite social application. I had intended on buying Instagram stock once it went public, but [...]
Eventually, I was going to have to address Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram, my once-now-not-so-sure favorite social networking platform. We’ve written many supportive Instagram-related articles so it just seemed impossible to side-step the buyout news. As we all know by now, Mark Zuckerberg purchased Instagram for a whopping 1 billion dollars. This is an amazingly huge [...]
At the moment I hate our e-commerce website. Sure, I customized almost every aspect of it, but there is always room for improvement. If I could get my programmer/partner to be as willing to adopt and implement change as I am, I’d be happier. Anyways, here are some tips we follow to keep our e-commerce [...]
Long-time rapper Snoop Dogg is entering the book publishing market with a book that you can not only read, but smoke. Time reported that “Rolling Words: A Smokable Songbook” will be released from Snoop as a marketing campaign for his new Kingsize Slim Rolling Papers. In the below video for the book, Snoop Dogg says [...]
Our little print company has yet to develop an iPhone app for numerous reasons, but we still provide a nice “app” looking icon to people who wish to save our mobile website on their iPhone/iPod/iPad home screen. They can do this by selecting “Add to Homescreen.” Basically, when someone saves a website onto their home [...]
In the past I’ve discussed how to move your business online and 9 Things to Know Before Starting a Business, which are two articles that represent the primary reason I started this blog in the first place. We’ve successfully converted a small print shop into a more profitable online business, and I think my personal [...]
I pretty much dropped the ball this year by not doing anything on our small business’s website for April Fool’s day. With two sick kids at home, I honestly didn’t have the time and if I put any more work on my staff, a riot of epic proportion could occur since they’re all pretty overworked [...]
In the age of digital where terms like “green” and “paperless” is cooler than an ice bucket in Antarctica, people across the globe are consuming more paper than ever, and the U.S consumer is the second largest tree killer in the world (Belgium wins the gold medal). According to The Economist, global paper consumption has [...]
With advancements in functionality and design, LG hopes this plastic, and bendable, EPD will revolutionize the E-Book market. The world’s first plastic EPD from LG Display offers users a paper-like reading experience with a plastic substrate that is as slim as cell phone protection film, and a flexible design that allows bending at a range [...]
One of our most popular articles is reviewing the Apple TV, but that’s fairly old news now and I was getting tired of constantly updating the page. Rather than reviewing the new Apple TV (1080p) and giving it the thumbs up, I decided it would be more beneficial to outline the key features in detail. [...]
Many online print companies undervalue the effect of showing off print samples through photos and video. Research has proved that images and videos improve sales conversions, but I’m always surprised to see the many companies not using the endless platforms to demonstrate what a final product will look like. Sure, if you suck at taking [...]
In any job, any situation really, there are steps you can take to avoid the inevitable. From knowing what you are supposed to do, to being a fortune-teller by preparing for common issues, there are certainly ways to limit problems and increase your comfort level in your job and life.
