"Drop the Presets!" Create Your Own Unique Drop Shadow

A Drop Shadow is a visual effect that gives an object an illusion of depth by placing a shadow beneath an object. It is often used functionally to draw attention to an object, say a button or a text box. Text is also ... [Read More]

mdog.com – A Reliable Mobile Version of the Entire Web?

mdog is a new mobile portal site that allows one to browse the Internet's latest versions of mobile web sites from major companies and publications. It displays sites without images and in text only format using a proprietary ... [Read More]

Chris Winfield in Investor's Business Daily re: 'Google Placement Performance Reports'

Last week, I spoke with Investor's Business Daily regarding Google's latest AdWords enhancement Placement Performance Reports and the article was published yesterday. This enhancement is something that advertiser's have been ... [Read More]

How to create: Line Effect Patterns in Photoshop

Creating line effect patterns in Photoshop is easy and can come in handy for that little bit of texture applied to a background of a page or another way to spice up a photograph. Line patterns can also make a 'heavy' ... [Read More]

IRS + Linkbait: What Are Two Words I Never Thought Would be Together

When I say "IRS" what's the first word that comes to mind? Maybe: Taxes. Audit. Scary. Perhaps: I'd rather not say.... Did anyone think of: Sarcastic. Fun. Linkbaiters? Probably not. Well it looks like that all is ... [Read More]

2008 Presidential Candidate Search Marketing Face-off

The 2008 election promises to be an exciting and hotly contested one. Jake Matthews takes a look at how some of the leading candidates are doing in their search marketing efforts on Google in Part 1 of a four part series - ... [Read More]

Chris Winfield in USA Today: 'Yahoo co-founder Yang becomes CEO'

Yesterday I spoke to Jeff Graham from USA Today regarding Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang taking over for former CEO Terry Semel. My thoughts from the article: "Yahoo had to do something," says Chris Winfield, who runs 10e20, a ... [Read More]

Using Masks in Photoshop: Add New Skies to your Landscape Photography

Sometimes you get an amazing landscape shot, but the sky is so drab and lacks emotion. Out in the field you can not control this aspect of the weather, but with some post production in Photoshop you can create some ... [Read More]

Social Media Test Marketing

Many times before a company launches a product or service, they will roll it out to a test market. You do this to see how viable that product or service will be in the mass market prior to a the full roll-out. This can be a ... [Read More]

Looking Up Sk*rt – Digg for Women

Sk*rt is a new social networking site that that has recently launched. To put it simply, it is like Digg for women. I found out about it through a blog I read regularly. When the announcement was posted I went over to check ... [Read More]