Five reasons why QR codes don’t work
QR codes, aka “Quick Response”, were designed by the motor vehicle industry and somehow filtered their way into the digital world. But instead of making our lives easier, they have failed to take off....
View ArticleHow to write a blog post: for small businesses with very little time
A challenge many small businesses face with social media is a lack of time to devote to it. Blogging is no different – lots of us don’t have a few hours spare each week to think of a topic, let alone...
View ArticleTeux Deux? Don’t Mind If I Deux…
Teux Deux (aka “to-do”) is currently my favourite online tool to help manage my work. Its success lies within its total simplicity and ease of use. Here’s a quick beginner’s top 10 guide to all the...
View ArticleHow to track outbound links with Google Analytics
When setting up goals in Google Analytics, many people fall astray when it comes to tracking links that take the user to an external website. A common wrong assumption is to act as if the link is...
View ArticleWhy I’m not jumping from iTunes to Spotify just yet…
I’m perhaps a little late to jump onto this bandwagon, but this week I’ve been trying to decide where to place my money in the music stakes. Do I invest N$40 / year into iTunes Match, and access all my...
View ArticleLorde, she’s good
Just can’t enough of Lorde this month. As proven by the recent series of New Zealand’s Got Talent, New Zealand rarely has any talent, so when someone does pop up we must all jump upon them and...
View ArticleFloxy Lady
Tonight I went to Design Assembly down at Ironbank on K Road. They run the occasional evening where creatives come to talk about their worlds. On this occasion there was one particular speaker that...
View ArticleDictated Dinners: My Food Bag
Escaped work this evening and headed down to SMCAKL, where amongst other slightly geeky things we learnt about the latest in food delivery, My Food Bag. This new service takes weekly meal planning to...
View Article“Caffe Sospeso”… Coffee as the new charity
Suspended coffee is a new concept arriving in cafes all over the world, and something I discovered last week whilst on holiday in Melbourne. Originating in Italy, the idea is that you can anonymously...
View ArticleNerdy Flight-Tracking Goodness
This week I have been captivated by an app my mum introduced me to. That’s right, my mum… not often I can say that. It’s called Flight Radar 24, and it shows commercial flights in realtime all over the...
View ArticleLessons on web design from GOV.UK
Good morning New Zealand. Who else is trying to claim their tax refund and enjoys how the IRD website asks you to login 10 times? I love that screen. (May be a small lie.) Last week, the UK Government...
View ArticlePreserving your Instragram Photos
We no longer print photographs and collate them lovingly in albums like our parents did. Now we upload them to Facebook, where they often end up in an album languidly named “iOS Uploads”. It was with...
View ArticleThe TedxAuckland 2013 Experience
Yesterday the Aotea Centre hosted TedxAuckland, a day for people to step on stage and inspire us with their ideas and experiences. I was a last minute booker, torn between the chance of saving $90 and...
View ArticleAn Enviromental Downside To Buying Online
I buy a lot of cosmetics and other products online, which is probably the same for most women in New Zealand (have you seen our shops?). This morning I received two orders from two well-known online...
View ArticleHello New Blog Design!
Kia Ora, As of today I’ve said goodbye to my old blog design and welcomed the responsive age. About time too. I’m currently fixing some bugs, but everything should be fully up and running in the next...
View ArticleWhat are the top BYOs in Auckland?
Finding a decent BYO restaurant in Auckland seems to be a challenge for Google. As Concrete Playground’s handy article is nearing 2 years old, I made my own list and thought I’d share it for all those...
View ArticleTwitter Changes Its Profile Design (Again)
This evening I jumped onto Twitter on my laptop and got this: If you are reading this in the future, this is what the old Twitter version looked like. It’s almost responsive, in that the “Who To...
View Article5 Basic Photoshop Skills You Need as a Digital Marketer
If you work in digital marketing, especially for a small business, sometimes you don’t want to waste time and money passing small jobs to a designer that you essentially could do yourself. The...
View ArticleHaving a ‘mare updating my iCloud credit card
Am I just going mad, or is this a total fail on Apple’s part? This morning I received this friendly email reminder that my iCloud credit card had expired: Thanks Apple. That looks easy enough? No. Upon...
View ArticleA Digital Day-off, Please?
I wish there was one day a week where society would have an agreed “time out” from social media. A day where I can go to brunch with my friends and not have to pause mid conversation whilst we all...
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