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August 26, 2014/ What I Do, Writing

Don’t Spook the Cattle!

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All my life, people have told me I’m smart. And like other smart people, I have a problem: I imagine that others want to know as much about stuff as I do. And this threatens to spill out in my business writing, and that of the smart people I’m lucky to work with. Now I […]

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August 25, 2014/ Usability, What I Do

VOX amPlug broken? Try this fix first…

David Cain / fix, help, usability, ux / 68 Comments

If you need to repair your VOX Amplug, you may be able to fix it, quite simply. I bought a brand new VOX AC30 Amplug as a practice amp. Nice little box: sounds cool clean or distorted, good little take-along practice amp. I’ve lately been getting a lot of traffic from Google about the VOX […]

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March 10, 2012/ Photography

Don’t fear the Retina: iPad 3, Resolution and Compression for Designers

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Apple recently announced that the iPad 3 would have a retina display – double the resolution of iPad 2, and that means four times the pixels on the screen. I’ve seen concern from designers that “the 4x increase in pixels will lead to a 4x consumption in bandwidth, download time and storage space”. This isn’t […]

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January 16, 2012/ Content Strategy, Organic SEO, What I Do

Content Strategy, writ small

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I had an interesting experience in rebuilding my personal site, from which I thought owners of small sites might be able to learn. My old site – a miserable 1995-looking hand-coded mess – was full of miscellaneous content, junk, test pages, things I used to think were kind of funny, and a bunch of photos […]

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