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The GIF Format

The Graphics Interchange Format (”gif”) was originally developed by CompuServe in 1987 . The GIF format is one of the most popular formats on the Internet and it supports 256 colors (8-bit color). Unlike the JPEG, the GIF is loss-less, meaning it does not get blurry or messy when saving. This format is excellent at compressing areas of images with large areas of the same color. (more…)

Google Apps is a web service provided by Google to business owners. It provides G-mail, GoogleCalendar, docs & spreadsheets, & GoogleTalk in a centralized location via customized “Start Page” that resembles iGoogle but is branded with your personal logo and domain name. You can designate an admin of the domain and they will have access to globally change user account/passwords across all these services as well as see how much of the email quota each user is taking up. (more…)

Over the next few weeks I will be testing out a few new styles on this website.  I am using the Glued Ideas theme built for WordPress.  I really like the default style of this theme but there appears to be a good number of things that I can change to make my site feel more unique and customized.  I plan to play around with every part of this “styling” feature as I can figure out.  I really have to hand it to the folks over at Glued Ideas for building such a customizable layout for their already custom theme for WordPress.

If you are curious about any other modifications I have made to this website so far, you can check out my Updates section where I have been logging all my progress building this website.

Food For Thought…

How much work do you think would be involved if a company was to set forth the goal of labeling every single image on the Internet? I can guess that you would say this is a very high goal with an unbelievable amount of work involved, and I would have to agree with you 100%. Now, with a task this massive, how could any company possibly pull it off? You would not only need a company that consisted of thousands of employees, but the entire company would have to devote their lives to this new project in order to expect any reasonable amount of results within a good time-frame. That’s where Google comes in, as usual, with a simplistic, yet extremely powerful solution… Let the general public participate and have a little fun while they are at it… (more…)

A little while back Crossroads Realty sat down with Realtor.com to discuss renewing our contract and also new features of the Realtor.com website. The following article is a brief outline on the key points brought up during that meeting… (more…)