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- MPC delivers razor-sharp VFX for X‑Men: Days of Future Past
X‑Men: Days of Future Past has smashed into the box-office, featuring 372 shots from lead VFX studio MPC, including a huge fully-CG mutant slayer, virtual environments and CG aircraft and pyramids.
- Mobile Apps–Why Your Business Probably Doesn’t Need One (Sorry Conduit)
But don’t let the prevalence of apps in general seduce you into thinking you need one. Note that the biggest ways consumers are using apps is for messaging and social media, closely followed by things that help them be more productive, followed by entertainment. If your app doesn’t do these things, chances are good your customers don’t need it.
- The 10 Most Common Mistakes Of Loyalty Program Marketing
Whether you run a loyalty program or are thinking about launching one, you’re facing dozens of decisions about how to boost the lifetime value of your customers. To help you make the right choices, we’ve gathered a list of the most common mistakes seen by marketing executives who have designed, launched, and managed loyalty programs. We also spoke to experts in the field for advice on how to avoid them. Consider this a checklist for making sure your loyalty program is on the right track to achieve maximum ROI.
- On the Seventh Day, We Unplug: How and Why to Take a Tech Sabbath
It also creates a bad case of dependency. When a study was done with college students that asked them to abstain from consuming any media for 24 hours and then write about the experience, many described their attachment to their phones and comp…
- Adobe Will be Revealing the ‘Next Evolution of Creative Cloud’ at June 18th Live Event
Mark your calendars ladies and gentlemen, because “the next evolution of Creative Cloud” will be revealed during a live-streaming keynote on June 18th at 1pm Eastern, and it promises to be a doozy of an announcement.
- Remembering Graphic Designer, Massimo Vignelli, 1931–2014
“I learned how to design at design school. But I learned how to be a designer from Massimo Vignelli.”
- How to Put a Stop to Image Theft
There are few things more frustrating to a photographer than having your work stolen — and yet, in this Internet age, it happens all the time. When the day comes that you click through to an article or blog post and surprisingly see your own images staring back at you, without credit or link or permission, you’ll be outraged like thousands of other photographers have been before you. But what can you do? Is there any way to truly protect your work? And when someone does steal your stuff, what are your options? Do you contact the person? Pursue legal action?
To help answer those questions, here’s a look at strategies and tips for stopping image theft:
- Set a Screen Saver as Your Mac’s Desktop Background
That’s it, your default screen saver should now run on your desktop. To stop it and return to normal, just close the open Terminal window.
- The 25 Worst (Best) Spelling Mistakes on Twitter
Sumtimes people tweet and there spelling isn’t quite what it should bee. Sumtimes it’s meaks things better. Hear are sum of those tweets.
- Facebook New Mobile App “Phone Conversation Listening” Not As “Creepy” As Claimed
But here’s the thing. You must explicitly opt in to turn the feature on. It will not be on by default. And Facebook maintains that the recorded sounds will not be stored.