Often times I see needlessly big PowerPoint presentations. The culprit is often pictures that have been inserted at a higher resolution that needed. The Fix… Read More »Your Powerpoint Presentation is So Big that…
Freakonomics, the blog, has decided to hate PowerPointers not PowerPoint. The article accuses PowerPoint, which turned 20 recently, of reducing presentations to bullet point boredom… Read More »Hating the PowerPointers
We started a new blog at work yesterday to discuss happenings on the SMU website. It’s called WebMonkeys. Fair warning, it may not be interesting… Read More »Web Monkeys
Google maps has added street level photographs of some streets, in some cities to maps.google.com. The new feature allows you to virtually walk down streets… Read More »Walk the streets with Google Maps
The Associated Press is reporting that Robert Alan Soloway, described as one of the World’s most prolific spammers, has been arrested. Soloway was arrested Wednesday… Read More »Spam doesn’t pay
Woot.com, the site that sells one deeply discounted item per day, is having a Woot-Off today. A Woot-Off is when they sell one item until… Read More »Woot Off
I just added ScribeFire (formally Performancing) as a Firefox extension. It’s supposed to make it easier to blog more often. We’ll see if it works.… Read More »ScribeFire makes it easier to blog?
Time magazine has named YouTube as the invention of the year. While AdHurl points out that YouTube was launched in 2005, I think the hype… Read More »YouTube best invention of the year?
There are three key components of search engine optimization that should be considered in every search optimization effort: content, coding and external links. This post… Read More »Search Engine Optimization Basics: Content
If you’ve never heard of searchmash.com, that’s okay with Google. Searchmash was created by Google to test new search features apart from the Google brand.… Read More »Google’s secret search lab