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Only YOU Can Prevent Frankensite

Sarah shares some tips for when your Web site resembles that famously patched-together nightmare, Frankenstein.

VLC Media Player

VLC Media Player by Videolan is a fantastic cross-platform, open-source multimedia framework, player and server and, well, a mouthful. To me, it’s a cool program that plays just about any video or audio file I throw at it – no more having to search for a program to play weird video files. It also does [...]

Five Ways to Improve Your E-Newsletter

Sending regular newsletters to your clients and friends is an effective way of updating them on your company’s recent news, but it can be difficult maintaining a fresh and interesting perspective. Account Manager Sarah Buser shares a few tips for sprucing up your e-newsletter.

Yelp

Need to find a reasonably-priced restaurant? Dependable dry cleaner? Yelp has you covered. Yelp has thousands of reviews written by real people about the businesses in their communities. You can join in writing the reviews or just type in your zip code and heart’s desire to find the best of the best in your [...]

picnik

picnik is a free, online photo editor that not only features the standard crop/resize/rotate, but also lets you apply styles, text and effects. Since Snipshot started charging, I’ve switched to picnik because it’s easy to use and doesn’t require a registration. It also has some cool-looking paid upgrades, but I’m all about free stuff so [...]

Roundtable Discussion: The Best of SXSW

In this month’s roundtable, Account Manager Sarah Buser asks the team about their favorite SXSW experiences. Here are the highlights of our “Geek Spring Break.”

Mint.com

Mint.com is a free budget and expense tracking site that pulls in your financial info from your bank account. It’s anonymous, so Mint doesn’t have your name, address, SSN or any way to transfer money. It’ll help you see where you spend, set a budget, and track your spending so you can see if you’re [...]

Roundtable Discussion: Our New Year’s Tech Resolutions

The TradeMark Media team fills you in on our tech-related new year’s resolutions. Maybe we can inspire you, too!

What We Did on Our Summer Vacations

What do we do when we’re not geeking out building Web sites? Sarah Buser collected stories to share from our summer vacations.

John Renesch

“If we are on a path of getting nowhere fast, technology is allowing us to get nowhere faster and faster.”

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