Well, folks, it was inevitable. Hurricane season is set to finally deliver on its yearly threat to Florida. Though we hope you have filled up your gas tanks, stocked up on bottled water and stored a bit of non-perishables in your cabinet, there is still an element of hurricane prep that many people fail to…
Perhaps you’re a skeptic of the latest Apple commercial, and with as much attention as Apple has received, you’re not alone if you’re second-guessing their motives. The hit commercial has been viewed more than any other video posted on Apple’s YouTube account. In fact, it has more than doubled their second highest video, one that…
Here at WebSolvers, we love creating large graphics and long marketing presentations. Back in the dark ages, we would try to send these types of files through email to each other and to clients. These files would clog up our email applications and cause chaos throughout the office (okay, maybe not that bad). We tried…
Matt and I use Evernote to take, organize and search for previously taken notes. Evernote keeps your notes in the cloud, so they’re available anywhere that you have access to the internet. The Evernote Smart Notebook is a snazzy moleskine designed especially for Evernote, containing special paper to allow for the use of auto-cropping and…
When users started browsing web sites (originally designed for a standard computer monitor) on mobile phones and tablets, some funny things happened. In short, they didn’t work. Sites built using Flash animation became invisible and sites with larger images were hardly useful at all. And while some web sites could be “pinched” and zoomed, that…
If you are a bit bewildered by QR codes, you are not alone. QR (Quick Response) codes are becoming increasingly popular among marketers and can now be seen on billboards, print ads, and even t-shirts. So what are they and how can they help you business?
One of the highest aims for any sales-minded organization is to build a stream of recurring revenue. Over time, traditional businesses like cable companies, self-storage facilities, and garbage haulers have prevailed by selling subscriptions to services. Instead of selling singular products (think about a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman) where the transaction is typically “one and…
By now, most businesses have come to realize that Twitter is here to stay. The tool has quickly become a household name, its user base continues to multiply, and its frequent association with athletes and celebrities has helped to make it a fixture of our culture (whether we like it or not). All the while,…
Many people don’t recognize the word ‘captcha’ (pronounced CAP-chuh), but they recognize one when they see it. A captcha is the series of jumbled characters that users see on jumbled Web forms. The intent of a captcha is to separate human beings from spam-bots that like to infiltrate forms and submit spam. The problem with…
One of the more prominent Internet success stories from the past decade has been 37 Signals, the Web site design firm turned software company. Their Web-based software products like Basecamp, Highrise, and others have been well-received and heavily-adopted. Along the way, the group has earned a great deal of acclaim from the mainstream media and…