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[23 May 2010 | View Comments | ]
Website Design Tutorial – Part 3 – Easy as Placing Stickers on your Monitor

Again, let’s Photoshop some images. I decided since this is a photography site to have a colorful background (our original) and an alternate gray-scale-ish image…

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[4 Jul 2010 | View Comments | ]
Adding Text/Content Slider using Stiqr

You can play around with this by going to http://demo.stiqr.com. The login is “demo”. Give it a try or sign up for free

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[23 May 2010 | View Comments | ]
Website Design Tutorial – Part 2 – Easy as Placing Stickers on your Monitor

Ok, so when I created my slideshow border that we uploaded I had already figured out the size I wanted for my slideshow images. I wanted a wide-screen format but just a tad small than usual so I have more room to add content around it…

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[21 May 2010 | View Comments | ]
Website Design Tutorial – Part 1 – Easy as Placing Stickers on your Monitor

What we are going to create from scratch is this custom designed photo portfolio with a single home page jquery slideshow and an about page for the personal details.  Here are some screenshots…

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[3 May 2010 | View Comments | ]
Distracted Driving: Technology to the Rescue?

This is a subject I’m surprised I haven’t yet written about and my inspiration came from a telecom email listserv that I subscribe to. The party that started the thread will remain anonymous due to a privacy request in their email footer, however, I can share with you the general scope of the rant, some of which I myself believe in…

News »

[16 Sep 2009 | View Comments | ]
Embedded Wireless Power! More than just your toothbrush.

Found this interesting and compiled a few videos…makes one wonder if you could power a complete home off something as simple as embedded magnetic coils…

Call Center and Voicemail, Carrier Management, FreedomIQ, FreedomVoice, Hosted PBX, News, Other Telephony Products, Phone Systems »

[28 Jul 2009 | View Comments | ]
FreedomVOICE Responds with Military Suspension Plan

On June 24th, 2009, FreedomVOICE came across a post on TMCnet discussing an unfortunate situation which some of America’s finest are being faced with…

IPK, NEC, Phone Systems, Tutorials »

[11 May 2009 | View Comments | ]
PC Admin for older NEC Elitemail Systems

I was recently asked through a support forum how to administer an older model NEC Elitemail system via computer. The new IT person was taking over an Electra Elite IPK telephone system with an Elitemail “in-skin” voicemail system and the company he worked for wanted to offer employee directory look up through option 1 of their main auto attendant greeting.

DSX, NEC, Phone Systems »

[11 May 2009 | View Comments | ]
NEC DSX Caller-ID

For those of you that do not know, the NEC DSX platform is a pretty inexpensive system that packs a heck of a lot of value. I’ve only put a few of these puppies out in the field but the installation and use is pretty painless. However, I did come accross an issue with the Caller-ID…

Inter-Tel, Phone Systems »

[24 Mar 2009 | View Comments | ]
Inter-tel Alarms

There are many alarms that will be generated on an Administrator’s phone from time to time and I thought this might be a good venue to explain what they mean…