KanuSurf Website is NOW LIVE!

We are pleased to announce that the new KanuSurf Website is LIVE!

http://www.kanusurf.com/

Kanu Surf designs and manufactures swimwear and resort wear for men, women, and children. They have offices and a distribution center in Ocean, NJ and Edison, NJ and a Showroom in New York City.

We’d especially like to thank Mark, Ioana and Tatyana on the BlueSwitch side and David/Sally/Joey on the KanuSurf side for all their dedicated and thorough work on this project.



Pre Pi Day Video

With Pi Day (March 14th or 3/14) fast approaching here's a cool video that shows you what Pi sounds like. I think its safe to say this will be the Pi Day theme song. #justsayin

Angry Birds on Last nights Conan

Video of the Day: Laughing Baby

I dare you not to crack a smile while watching this.

What is a web font?

In a nutshell, web fonts allow web designers to use fonts that are not installed on the viewer's computer.

Here is a complete list of fonts that are viewable on all devices including mobile.

1. Arial
2. Arial Black
3. Helvetica
4. Tahoma
5. Trebuchet MS
6. Verdana
7. Century Gothic
8. Geneva
9. Lucida, Lucida Sans, Lucida Console
10. Courier, Courier New
11. Georgia
12. Times New Roman
13. MS Serif
14. New York
15. Palatino, Palatino Linotype
16. Impact
17. Trebuchet MS

Good typography is key to any good design but when it comes to web sites, Arial will be a web designers new best friend.

Or will it?

Last year, a service called TypeKit was announced allowing design companies to license fonts, creating a way to embed fonts that would work across web browsers.

TypeKit has also partnered with Google Font API creating a loader that will give designers complete control over how fonts are loaded as well as access to Google’s own font library.

There are many hurdles with this process right now such as font foundries being cautious about having their hard work invested being displayed on open web servers but in a few more years designers can look forward to a wider palette of fonts in the future for those who are ready to take that next step.

Angry Birds Joins Rio, the Movie

Rio, a bird-centric animated film coming out this April has teamed with the Angry Birds development team to create a new app out this May. View the trailer and get hooked!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7gIpfrQdAI



And for those of you who would like to see the movie RIO out this Easter starring the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Jamie Foxx, will.i.am, Tracy Morgan, George Lopez, Jane Lynch, Wanda Syke, check out the trailer here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG-fC-O_uQE

My Googled Life

How many people actually realize the extent to which Google has penetrated our lives? I hadn't thought much about how deep it went until recently. And it goes way, way beyond web search. I will illustrate.

First of all, the first fundamental to accept is this: If Google has access to data, there's no reason to assume they aren't accessing, indexing, and profiling YOU using that data, especially since their Terms many times freely admit they are doing this.  And even if you believe that they are not accessing and indexing, if faced with a subpoena, is there a doubt that the data will be handed over to someone who will?  Last, remember that you'll notice a common thread with Google's products and services.  The word *free* will keep popping up.  You need to ask yourself: if Google is giving  away free what others charge for, what do they expect from me in return?