Dayn W Creative

Export your Torq M3U playlist to a plain text list of tracks

admin — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:28:32 PDT

Image via Wikipedia True to my Twitter bio, I still get to DJ every once in a while. My glow stick days are over, but I’m still addicted to the tools of the trade. I’ve been using M-audio Torq to take advantage of my digital crate while retaining the actual vinyl on 1200’s feel that I was [...]

Links for late June

admin — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:45:20 PDT

Facebook Open Graph Search, A Semantic Web Tool That Actually Makes Sense – A real competitor to spider based search indexing? It’s just crazy enough to work. In Online Retail, Usability Is Rated No. 1 – eMarketer – At the very end of this article is an important point. If visitors to your e-commerce site are [...]

Social Media Marketing for Non-Profits links

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:58:27 PDT

Social Media for Non-Profits links Social Media Strategies for Non-Profits – My slides from the presentation at First Independent Bank on June 17, 2010 Conversational Case Study: Myth or Fact – Can Small Nonprofits Win with … Twitter Social Good Campaigns: Moving Up The Ladder of Engagement … Closing the Loop Between Social Media and Offline Action – Beth’s [...]

Author’s quick guide to Social Media Marketing, iPhone data plans explained, BP PR display ads, the useful 33% of Twitter users, jQuery for better columns

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:13:05 PDT

These are my links for May 31st through June 14th: jQuery Masonry · David DeSandro – Intriguing way to tesselate content areas. Better than CSS floats, David Desandro’s method minimizes empty areas caused by content area heights in the same row. One-Third of Twitter Users Talk Brands – eMarketer – There are a finite number of influencers [...]

Save your Gmail search queries

admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:12:27 PDT

Image via CrunchBase I’ve been slowly making the switch from Apple Mail to Google Apps mail. One of the most challenging parts has been changing my personal dogma of filters and folders to labels and search. Thankfully, there is a sherpa out there for your Google Apps and Google Wave adventures. Her name is Gina Tripani, author [...]

Link dump: WordPress security, embedding tweets, Twitter auth API countdown, discount ads still win, HTML5 video in WordPress, rewarding customer engagement, spying on your competition’s PPC, free usability tools, crash cam

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:40:05 PDT

These are my links for May 19th through May 25th: GoPro : Wearable Digital Cameras – 1080p, timelapse, slow mo, waterproof to 180 feet: $200. @storiestold recommends this little crash cam. After losing one to a semi, he’s on his second. That’s all the endorsement I need. Ten free usability testing tools | Econsultancy - SpyFu – Let’s [...]

How to add a full page background image to an old ass Word v.X Mac doc

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:10:22 PDT

1. View > Header and Footer 2. Insert > Picture > From File… Choose the background image to insert. It will look funky, because Word puts it in the Header text area. 3. Select the image, right-click (control-click) it and choose Format Picture… 4. Under Wrapping Style (the little dog icons), select Behind text 5. You will now be able [...]

Usability testing made easy, CSS code generators, site speed & SEO, more on the fold myth

admin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:46:11 PDT

7 Useful CSS3 Code Generators | Coding | PelFusion.com – Here’s few visual tools to help generate CSS rounded corners, RGBA, text shadows, @font-face, multiple columns, gradients, and borders. It’s official: Google incorporates website speed into your ranking | Blog | Econsultancy - 25 Subtle and Light Grunge Textures – Lost and Taken - Web Design News 30/03/10 « [...]

Pogue sells me an iPad, new Facebook Page type, can Twitter influence be bought?, iPhone/iPad UI design tools

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:46:00 PDT

Personal Tech: Apple iPad FAQ’s – @pogue answers all of the important questions I had about iPad. Video out, how’s the typing experience (really), USB, they 12hr battery life claim is not a myth. Facebook’s New Solution For Unofficial Pages: Community Pages – Facebook makes a distinction between brand pages and pages meant to build community [...]

DIY light kit, Dlvr.it public beta, Should I put my URL in my ads?

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:56:58 PDT

These are my links for March 21st through March 24th: Should Facebook Users Be Required To Approve Photo Tags? - Amazon.com: Coleman LED Quad Lantern: Sports & Outdoors – Videographers and shooters, here’s your new DIY light kit. No temperature control (gels maybe?) but $60! Take your RSS Feed and Dlvr.it to Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr | Techcrunch [...]