June 2010 Wallpaper
We’re jump starting your weekend by bringing you our very first wallpaper! The June 2010 wallpaper is available for free so get it now. The wallpaper can be downloaded with the calendar and one without so have at it (click on the desired size and save the image to your computer/device): Wallpaper With Calendar: 320×480…
Social media backlash
Friends, followers, connections, likes, fans, tweets, RTs, diggs, shares, comments, posts, updates, walls, events, groups, clubs, views, impressions…WOW, I got tired just by typing this, how would you feel about worrying regarding this on daily bases? OVERLOAD? Imagine this, “Is it enough just to be on LinkedIn and Facebook? I just got an invite from…
Twitter Verified Account
This is new. To prevent identity confusion, Twitter is experimenting (beta testing) with a ‘Verified Account’ feature. They are working to establish authenticity with people who deal with impersonation or identity confusion on a regular basis. Accounts with a are the real thing! Twitter is currently testing verification with some businesses and working hard at…
White House and Social Media
I was doing research on current social media usage trends. Many will say that every business should use social networking (after all its a free tool). The questions is, can any business adopt social networking practices that will return on their investment? In my humble opinion, the answer is simple – it depends on the…
Facebook now serves Starbucks coffee
For all of you who must feed their Starbucks addiction and use your gold card to do it, Starbucks added a very cool new feature to their Starbucks Gold Card program. Now you can manage your Gold Card account with a Facebook app. You no longer need to go to the Starbucks website to check…
Microsoft Office 2010 is out
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…
Who doesn’t love freebies?!
We spend a lot of time in front of our computers making pretty things over here at DIF and wanted to share the design love. Each month we’ll post a new calendar wallpaper to keep your computer screens stylish and organized. We’ll begin next month with June, so stay tuned to make sure you get…
Facebook Survey
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…
Happy Birthday to LinkedIn!
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…
Faceplace: DIF Design’s Facebook Page
We lost our memo to join Facebook, but no worries we found it and the DIF Design Facebook Page is up and running! I know we should be ashamed of ourselves for not joining sooner and we’re sorry, but with the tweets, posts, new work being designed, looking for a new office and prepping for the…
TransFluenci’s new website
TransFluenci, formerly Global Link Translations, has been a client of ours for many years. During their third website redesign (second with us) they’ve received a federal contract. This is when the new idea of a completely different website look came to fruition. Fresh, clean and simple website, still offering the same complex functionality of being…
Clean. Simple. Bold. Apple.
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…