Author Archives: Todd Strickland

We celebrate birthdays and anniversaries on the first Wednesday of every month with a dessert selected by the people having birthdays that month. We just bumped it a day forward this month with the holiday and a big client meeting. But before we even g… Continue reading →

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then Instagram lets you say that and so much more even before you begin to type a caption for your photo. The Instagram app lets you take photos, put some cool filters on them, and then share them with your friends an… Continue reading →

Last year all the talk was about how many billions Groupon was worth, and this year, as it prepares to go public, the conversation has changed to its flawed revenue model. There are also lots of discussions comparing sites like Living Social, Groupon, … Continue reading →

Even before the first iPhone, Apple has been lauded for its brilliant design. A functional piece of art is formed by the combination of metal and glass, or sometimes just a single piece of metal. Too bad that most of the form gets covered up in an effo… Continue reading →

As Randy Jackson, John Strawn, or Pavlov would say, “Yo Dawg…” Although today, I don’t think Pavlov would have had to let his experiments with conditioned reflexes go to the dogs. He could simply observe humans and their smartp… Continue reading →

While Jerry was shooting a few quick photos for me to use in a blog, he made a very astute observation. We had a box of 18 iPhones. It was buzzing, dinging, ringing, vibrating, playing music, and lighting up, and Jerry said, “It’s like they… Continue reading →

Ever since I got my iPhone last year, there’s been one thing that really bothered me. It wasn’t anything with the phone itself. It was something I noticed about accessories. Every device that had a built-in docking station required the iPho… Continue reading →

Ever since Geraldine uttered the phrase “What you see is what you get,” back in the 70s, and then the late 80s adoption of the same technological standard WYSIWYG for computing, we as consumers have also adopted that philosophy. Companies t… Continue reading →