Improve your Google-fu
We all need help finding things from time to time, especially when we’re looking for things on the web. For most of us, Google is our first port of call when searching online. Currently Google answers over 400 million queries per day but sometimes sifting through the answers can be time consuming. In this blog […]
Top Five Apple Related Podcasts
I love Podcasts! I listen to them whilst walking Huxley at 6:00am each morning, whilst driving or travelling to client meetings and they play pretty much non-stop in the studio. Many of my favourite Podcasts are technology related, with most of those being Apple related. So if you’ve got a Mac or an iPhone then […]
Our Top Five Apps
During the course of running a small yet busy graphic design, website design and creative advertising agency, we often seek out and sometimes stumble across, really useful software that soon becomes integral to our company. In this blog post we’ll share our ‘Top Five Apps’ and why we find them so useful in the day-to-day […]
Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
“Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will […]
How Do You Like Them Apples?
If you know me personally, or follow me on Twitter, you’ll know that I like my Apples, not just Royal Gala but the electronic flavour too. I first came into contact with the computer variety back in the early nineties during a high school work placement in a local advertising agency (the now defunct Longcastle, […]
The Longevity of YouTube Links
A recent study by the popular link shortening service Bit.ly has unearthed some interesting trends with regard to different types of links. Their investigation shows that different kinds of links grow, and then shrink, at different speeds, depending which platform they are posted on. Hilary Mason, Chief Scientist at Bit.ly used the concept of ‘Half […]
QR Code Readers
We had a great reaction to our last blog post, which if you haven’t yet read it, was all about QR (Quick Response) codes. In case you too now want to explore these funny, square barcodes we thought we’d tell you how. STEP 1 You need a smartphone or tablet with internet conectivity. Your device […]
Are Quick Response Codes Here to Stay?
We love QR codes. We first stumbled across them around 4 years ago and ever since then, we’ve been hopeful that they would become more widespread. You may have already seen our own use of QR codes on this website, our new business cards and elsewhere amongst our marketing materials. Now it seems, QR codes […]
NEW Quentin James Design Website Launches
After many hours of design and development, including several late nights and quite a few lost weekends, the new Quentin James Design website has finally launched. As you might have noticed we’ve also changed our identity, giving our logo a fresh new look too. To complete the ‘set’ our letterheads, invoices and business cards have […]
Disaster Recovery and the Importance of Data Backup
It is the case for many businesses, large or small, including your business, that the data you hold is valuable. Regardless of whether that data is simply an address book, emails, an entire website or various Word documents and spreadsheets, it all has a value to your business. Some businesses are built almost entirely on […]
