An Ann Arbor information technology consulting firm is reworking its business model to directly confront the pressing budgetary constraints of a wide swath of local businesses.Dynamic Edge, which offers customized IT consulting to small to mid-size companies, is offering a pay-upfront solution to customers worried about getting stuck with huge IT fees…
It’s official! We’re in the news again!
A little over a week ago, Nathan Boomey from Ann Arbor Business Review came in to meet with Bruce about Fixed IT, a new service we released to customers on January 1, 2009. The photographer will be in today, doing his photographer thing, and the article will be published this Thursday… so look for it online and in your local coffeeshop’s magazine rack!
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Raise your hand if you’ve ever sent a text to 466453. If you’ve done it, you already know that Google SMS is one the most helpful inventions of all time. At least in my humble, understated opinion.
4-6-6-4-5-3 = G-O-O-G-L-E on most cell phones. Text Google if you need anything (within reason) and you’ll get it. Here are some examples:
- Text “Pizza 48104” and you’ll get a list complete with address and phone number for Pizza House, Cottage Inn Pizza (3 locations), Papa John’s, Domino’s and “reply: more for more listings.”
- Text “USA 97” and get “23 Jan 2009 US 97 DTW Depart: 6:20 AM Departed LAS Arrive: 8:01 AM Landed Gate: T1/A12” and then some… WOW!
- Text “CBOU” and get “Stock: CBOU (Caribou Coffee Company, Inc.) 1.61(+0.00.0.17%) Jan 23 11:44am ET Real-time price data for NASDAQ.”
Wow! The last 6 months have been insane over here with Custom Programming projects galore! I’d be remiss if I didn’t say that our programmers at Dynamic Edge are beyond awesome. (In the same breath, we’re looking for one right now, so if you’re a power programmer who likes video games and Mountain Dew, drop us a line!)
One of our biggest projects in the pipeline just got some major press from our Nashville office. The gang has been running on all six cylinders since January, 2008 with a group called DisastersNet, Inc., a Nashville-based company that implements fully automated, web-based emergency management systems for hospital environments.
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Today’s posting brought to you by Jason the Programmer — who needs a little more to do with his time!
In search of an answer to this age old question, I’ve consulted numerous sources and scoured the Web. Hopefully, you’ll find this tidbit of information as useful as I have. The difference between the forward slash and the backslash is as follows:
/ = the forward slash leans forward
\= the backslash leans back
That’s it. Wow. That was complicated!
For Average Joes and Janes like myself, that’s all you really need to know — because we really only use slashes when typing in website URL’s. And, yes, I did casually say “slashes” because most of us regular users only know where one slash is, anyway. It shares a key with the question mark.
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Ok Folks, it’s time to dig deep and give big! There are only 14 short hours remaining to cast your vote for Dyanamic Edge’s Best Beard of 2008!
Statistics show that one in every eight adults lacks the literacy skills needed to be successful in society. If you are reading this post right now, you can make a difference in the life of one of these individuals. With every $1 vote, you make a donation to support literacy in our community!
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