For some people, Metro is a familiar thing. It started in Windows Phone 7 (and Zune if I remember right), and then came to Xbox 360. With it, you can see up to date information from your apps on Live Tiles instead of shortcuts, and the apps themselves are full screen. The full screen Metro apps are most useful on Tablets or TV’s but can be used in a desktop setting if you want a more minimalistic interface.
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Archives for July 2012
Amazing Light Trail Photographs
These amazing light trail photographs are by London based Photographer Joel James Devlin.
Mode – A Mobile App by the Creative Collective
The Creative Collective has released the first video resource app for creative leaders.
Available for both the Android and iOS, if you’re a creative leader, you’ll want to download this free app, now!
Here are the details:
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When A Facebook Campaign Backfires
We all want to see our ministry or business Facebook pages see success and many times that means that we have to do some special strategic giveaways or promotions to get an increase in Likes or interaction with our fans.
Walmart took this approach recently to giveaway something amazing in return for likes. They had just recently released all of their local Walmart Facebook pages and were wanting to get some quick likes to roll out their local Walmart deals through Facebook.
The giveaway to encourage people to like it?
The ROI of Facebook and Twitter Advertising [Infographic]
Social media ROI (Return On Investment) is something to consider when you’re trying to reach the masses.
ROI is a term usually used with email marketing, advertising and other avenues of business.
The importance of ROI for the Church, non-profits and publishers many not be dollars and cents, but reach.
Here’s a look at the ROI of Facebook and Twitter advertising:
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Code Tip (C#): Storing Data in Collections
Making calls to data in a database can be expensive. There may also be times where you don’t have a database system to access. The good news is Microsoft.NET C# provides objects you may query like data.
In this Code Tip I’ll demonstrate how to use a couple of these objects called Collections. You will also learn why they are extremely useful when you need to access objects as if they were records contained in a data table.
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