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Microsoft Office 2010 is out

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Peter Ellis in IT, News

Microsoft Office 2010 Beta version is available for download now. Come to think of it, I started using the Office programs back in 2000. It has been 10 years and I am still using the software today. I could not let go of the Microsoft Office software, even though I am a Mac user.

It sure does look and function better then it did back in 2000. You can view the top 10 benefits of the Microsoft Office 2010 here.

Mashable wrote a good article describing top 5 most intriguing features of Microsoft Office 2010.

Facebook Survey

Posted on May 09, 2010 by Peter Ellis in News, Social Media

Hi Everyone,

This week we want to conduct a survey to see how much time on average people spend on Facebook daily. Please take a second to answer this one question.

Leave your answer as a comment on our Facebook Page, comment on this post or use the Polls feature on the right sidebar of our blog!

We will post the results as soon as we get enough replies.

Thank you.

Happy Birthday to LinkedIn!

Posted on May 05, 2010 by Peter Ellis in News, Social Media

Seven years ago today, LinkedIn social networking website was launched. This makes it older than Facebook (2004), Twitter (2006) and even MySpace (2003).

The company was started in December of 2002, but the website did not launch until May 5, 2003.

While LinkedIn is much smaller than Facebook and other social media sites (Facebook has 400+ million users, LinkedIn has 65+ million users), it has cornered the professional social network market.

If you don’t have a LinkedIn account – you should sign up for one today, then you can add DIF Design as a connection.

Clean. Simple. Bold. Apple.

Posted on Apr 30, 2010 by Peter Ellis in Advertising, Web Design

The image above is from Apple’s home page. Clean, simple and bold message – “iPad is here.” This is a perfect example of why most people that mimic or copy websites, try to make it look just like www.apple.com. To this day, its one of the top 5 websites in my book.

Dennis should be writing a quick post about the iPad itself and comparing it with similar devices, so stay tuned.

White House website is open for all

Posted on Apr 30, 2010 by Peter Ellis in IT, News, Web Design

I am not sure how much of this is going to be exciting for consumers out there, but this is pretty awesome for web developers. The White House official website (www.whitehouse.gov) is built on an open source platform called Drupal.

Drupal, amoung other open source (another words, “free” code base platforms) such as WordPress and Joomla, is often used for a large-content websites to offer an administrator of that website a user-friendly way to edit/update/create content without any web programing knowledge.

These Content Management Systems (CMS) have years and years of development, along with thousands of developers world wide adding to them to make them better. Like with anything in life there are pros and cons about using an open source CMS, but this is not the time to open up that can of warms.

Anyway, representatives of White House official website made an announcement to release modules of Drupal code they have developed and customized as open source, i.e. are giving them away free.

Imagine your best website developer, the most expansive budget then multiply it times 10 (at least). This is how much time and money the White House has invested into their website, after all the do have to represent the nation on the internet. Now they are making all those custom changes available to other, this is amazing!