Category Archives: Advanced

Your Complete Guide to Facebook Timeline

Posted on January 28, 2012 by jmiles

Facebook has been rolling out Timeline slowly since December, after first introducing it at its F8 developer conference in September. The project is one of Facebooks most ambitious and significant redesigns to date, as it seeks to become your digital … Continue reading →

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Reduce Friction, Increase Happiness

Posted on October 18, 2011 by jmiles

Brenden Mulligan, entrepreneur: There has been a reoccurring theme on my mind recently… It revolves around the goal of reducing friction. Reduced friction in a product leads to less user frustration, high conversion, and overall user happiness. I’d like to … Continue reading →

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Faster than light?

Posted on September 27, 2011 by jmiles

A meeting at Cern, the world’s largest physics lab, has addressed results that suggest subatomic particles have gone faster than the speed of light. The team has published its work so other scientists can determine if the approach contains any … Continue reading →

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Verizon iPhone is a 3G device

Posted on January 20, 2011 by jmiles

I’ve run into a couple of people who thought that the new Verizon iPhone would use the new (and highly-promoted!) Verizon 4G LTE network.  But, no.  CDMA for this product, resulting in no voice and data at the same time, … Continue reading →

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Google vs. Bing: The Fallacy Of The Superior Search Engine

Posted on January 18, 2011 by jmiles

Very interesting stuff! [The author] evaluated 20 different searches split evenly between Transactional and Informational queries and the search engines’ ability to deliver quality results, admitting that quality is a very subjective term, but includes things like timeliness, 1 click access to … Continue reading →

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Keyboard Shortcuts: The Ribbon, Microsoft Word and IE

Posted on December 16, 2010 by jmiles

Here are some lesser-known keyboard shortcuts in Office and Internet Explorer to free you from all that mousing and clicking. via Keyboard Shortcuts: The Ribbon, Microsoft Word and IE | CIO.

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Google Encrypted Search News

Posted on July 3, 2010 by jmiles

Google’s Encrypted Search Seems to Stop SEO Poisoning When you make a search on Google or another major search engine, you probably feel pretty confident that the first page or so of results will be relevant, valid and safe.   Not … Continue reading →

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