Jeremy Smith recently posted about avoiding bait and switch blog titles. I agree. So, let me be clear. This is not a bait and switch title. When I say this is the most awesome coffee maker in the world. I mean it. Just look at this thing!!! ... Read More
Archives for April 2012
A Super Mario Summary
A Super Mario Summary was created by Johan Peitz for the 23rd Ludum Dare 48 hour game development challenge. Peitz tried to recreate every level of the original 8-bit Super Mario Bros. game, but with one catch: Every level had to be on one screen. Here were the results: ... Read More
How the Heavy Hitters Manage Social Media
Ever wonder how your social media management tools compare to what the largest corporations in America are using? Check out Sprinklr. This New-York based company has quietly put together a premier social media management program, winning over such clients as Samsung, Microsoft, Dell, Cisco, SAP, Target, Nike, and Virgin America. But don't go trolling around their website looking for a big list of clientele. In fact, they intentionally keep quiet about their success. A simple click on ... Read More
Don’t Be a Twitter Narcissists or How to Tweet During Conferences
For those unfamiliar with the United Methodist Church (UMC), we hold a global conference once every four years - General Conference (GC). For 10 days, 1,000 elected delegates, along with Bishops, representatives from General Boards and Agencies, and countless others with interests in the process converge from all over the world to discuss the doctrine, polity, and policies of the UMC. As General Conference has begun this year in Tampa, many of those present have taken to Twitter to share in the ... Read More
MIT Tetris Building Hack [Video]
I am always up for a good prank and it is even better when you take something that was totally not intended to be how it is being used now. The MIT people always come out with great things, but this time they may have at least out-geeked themselves. Over a single weekend, they hacked the lighting system of a building and turned it into a Tetris game. It's the perfect building face to make this game with it's tall and skinny, symmetrical grid design. ... Read More
Google’s 3 Principles of Link Love
Google's processes and methods for assessing the likely usefulness of websites - the things that underpin its inclination to love a website or not - can be separated into three groups: ... Read More
How-To Add Your WordPress Featured Image to Your RSS Feed
If you've built your WordPress theme to use the Featured Image functionality, your RSS feed subscribers are missing part of your post. When you use a small thumbnail, you may not think much about it. However, there may be instances where you want to include your post thumbnail. Of course, there are those WordPress theme designs that include a large wide Featured Image that can add a lot to the feeling of a post. Sure, you could simply insert the image at the top of the post, but there are ... Read More
Pinterest Traffic Reached Over 1,000 Unique Views
This last week, for the first time ever, seventy8 Productions reached 1,000 unique visitors to our site. It was amazing seeing the number shoot up so fast and compared to the routine of traffic, it is something that we were not expecting. In fact, you can look at the graph above and notice how much that day stands out from the rest. I simply have to thank Pinterest for the "StumbleUpon"-like spike in traffic. ... Read More
8-Bit iPad & iPhone Cases
There's nothing quite as tasty as an 8-bit ... well ... anything! The same goes for these 8-bit styled iPhone and iPad cases. I'm sure you'll enjoy these pixels: ... Read More
24 Logical Fallacies
Your Logic Fallacy has created, and provided for downloaded, an incredible poster that covers 24 logic fallacies. The goal for them is have their poster "be printed out at various sizes for hanging in your favourite place that has walls. Make yourself, your class, your friends or your kids smarter by hanging it somewhere your face is near." Here's a sampling: ... Read More