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Spin for a Child Launches for the Northwest Arkansas CASA organization. Raise money for local children.

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Spin for a Child launched two weeks ago for the Northwest Arkansas CASA organization. The site is a social networking site which allows users to create a custom profile and upload a photo which can be shared with friends over twitter and facebook. The site uses many different technologies including facebook, MySpace, and twitter integration. The site shows who has donated to each member and how much all members have raised.

CASA of Northwest Arkansas’ Spin for a Child 2009 is an indoor cycling fundraising event to benefit abused and neglected children. We ask that each Spin for a Child rider to commit to raising $500.00. The Spin for a Child committee will provide you with the tools and information you need to spread the word about CASA and the critical need of this organization. All you need is 20 friends/family members to donate $25 and you are on your way to making a difference in a child’s life.

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Lynergy Launches Micro-site for Amerishine

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

AmerishinePolish.com is a micro-site built for Amerishine licensed contractors

Architects looking to use the Amerishine Spec are looking to give their buildings the absolute best, top of the line floors. They cab view the Amerishine Spec to see that it's the highest quality flooring specification available.

Architects can also get a quote from one of many licensed contractors all around the country.

The Amerishine Spec has been used to polish schools, grocery stores, and offices. It has also been used to polish the new concrete floors at the Indianapolis Colts Stadium.

The site uses jQuery and a Lightbox gallery to display flooring samples. It also uses a simple Flash banner at the top to show the fancy shine on the floor.

It was great to work with Amerishine, and we can't wait to see where they utilize their skills next.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

I just want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. This year has been great for us at Lynergy.com and next year is going to be even better!

Thanksgiving is our favorite time of year because there is no Christmas chaos, and you still see family and eat great food. We have pretty large families, so we generally have at least two Thanksgiving dinners. Yes, that's two feasts full of turkey (prefferably a fried turkey), dressing, biscuits, cranberry sauce, gravy, corn casserole, more gravy, green bean casserole, pies, ham, and sweet potatoe pie. Ummm.. Hmmm!

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Tracking Craigslist campaigns with CraigsCounter.com

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Over the past couple years Craigslist has become the easiest way to post a classified ad online. But Craiglist doesn't provide a lot of flexibility. They only recently launched a login system and Captcha to prevent spam.

Frequenters of the site have been clamoring for an analytics solution. Craigslist believes that the integrity of their sytem relies on ads being local and home grown. They want to avoid competing with eBay. But users would still like to see how many views their ad attacts and where visits come from. So my brother came up with a solution, CraigsCounter.com.

CraigsCounter.com allows users to track Craigslist ad campaigns, view competition within the category, and customize the counter that is placed on your ad. The service is free, but an ad is displayed within the counter.

There is also a new premium service that gives you more counter templates, an invisible counter option without ads, multiple campaign tracking, and private analytical data. A premium ad is only $1.

The site is constantly being updated. You can checkout the HudsonCS blog at HudsonCS.com Be sure to visit the CraigsCounter.com site and try an ad campaign.

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Thoughts on iPad

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Every Apple enthusiast that I know was waiting for Steve Jobs to make the announcement. Blogs had speculated for months about this fantastical tablet.

But would the tablet make a huge splash? Would we all line up to buy one? Will it change the face of computing? In the long run, yes. In the short run, no. At around $800 the iPad is competitvely priced with laptops, but doesn't have all of the functionality of a laptop. It is a bit bigger than an average eBook reader and will download from several major publishers. It runs the same operating system as the iPhone and it downloads apps from the iTunes App Store.

Honestly, the iPad hard to define. Most people talk about it as if it is a giant iPhone without the phone or a glorified eBook reader with a net book price tag.

Steve Jobs slammed net books saying that they really have no use at all, but the price sustains the market. He categorized the iPad as a competitor for net books.

Most speculate that the iPad will compete in gaming and eBook markets. Although Steve Jobs deemed Apple a mobile company (which I thought was most interesting), this would make Apple a major publishing company. It would make Apple a major player in music, books, and games.

The last several products that Apple has released have changed the face of our world, and although iPad will certainly subsidize Apple and make a formidable force in publishing, most people do not want to pay $800 for an eBook reader or for a giant iPhone without the phone.

So will iPad find a huge market and change the way we all look at laptops? Eventually, yes. No-one thought net books would take off, but they did. We try to predict how a new type of product will fit into our lives, but usually those products change the way we live our lives; and that is much harder to predict.

The iPad is different, it's useful, and it could find it's way into our hands, but it will take a while, and I believe it will take some time and some tweaks in the operating system so that developers can build applications that turn the iPad into something more than an eBook reader, gaming machine, or Internet tablet.

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Google Apps is phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 and other older Browsers

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

I'm excited that major services like Facebook and Google Apps are encouraging users to upgrade from Internet Explorer 6. Most users have very little incentive to upgrade, even though the improvements in IE7 and IE8 are well worth the download. In fact, IE8 doesn't take long to download and install at all. Thank you Google for making the small business' life easier. I received this in my email today.

"Dear Google Apps admin,?

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.

Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.

Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.

In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.

Thank you for your continued support!

Sincerely,

The Google Apps team"

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Rock the Runway for Education Launches.

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Yesterday we launched RockTheRunwayForEducation.com

A fashion show fundraiser benefiting the Single Parent Scholarship fund of NWA. The event is on May 1st, 2010 at the AMP in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It's going to be a blast.

VIP tables are available, and Lynergy will host a VIP lounge pre-party and post-party. Bring your tickets to the VIP lounge for a free cocktail and mingle with other VIPs and Lynergy executives.

This year's fashion show features clothing lines from Lola Boutique, Leslie Pennel, Maude Boutique, and others. There will be a cash bar and hor d'ouvres served throughout the evening. Last year was a huge success, but we expect this year to be even better!

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Lynergy launches new retail site NeedsOnTime.com

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Today we launched NeedsOnTime.com, a new type of retail web site that allows users to order products and have them delivered automatically when they need them.

NeedsOnTime.com is a convenient way of ordering all of your basic shopping needs in one place. Their slogan is, "Never buy Toilet Paper Again!"

Login to the site, and add products to your shopping list. Select the number of items you would like, how often you'd like to receive them, and the date you'd like to receive them on. NeedsOnTime.com will send them to you at that time however often you'd like.

You can also send gift items via the concierge panel. This allows concierge members to automatically send gifts on special occasions: Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, Mother's Day, and more! Never forget a special occasion again!

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3D AfterEffects DVD with Lynergy Logo and Particle System

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

At Lynergy Web Development we have been experimenting with DVD and video work for the past few months. We just released our first full production DVD and this is our first 3D test with our logo and a particle system surrounding a list of services we offer.

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How to make a UIImage draggable with the iPhone SDK

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

First create a new Objective C class, and call it DraggableImage. This will create two fies, DraggableImage.h and DraggableImage.m.

In the header interface (.h) use this code:

@interface DraggableImage : UIImageView {

CGPoint startLocation; // other posts were missing this

}

In the implementation file (.m) use this code:

@implementation DraggableImage

- (void) touchesBegan:(NSSet*)touches withEvent:(UIEvent*)event {

// Retrieve the touch point

CGPoint pt = [[touches anyObject] locationInView:self];

startLocation = pt;

[[self superview] bringSubviewToFront:self];

}

- (void) touchesMoved:(NSSet*)touches withEvent:(UIEvent*)event {

// Move relative to the original touch point

CGPoint pt = [[touches anyObject] locationInView:self];

CGRect frame = [self frame];

frame.origin.x += pt.x - startLocation.x;

frame.origin.y += pt.y - startLocation.y;

[self setFrame:frame];

}

@end

Lastly open the view controller where you want the draggable image and add the draggable image programmatically to your view. Make sure you change the @"block.png" to your image and the x, y, width and height coordinates inside of CGRectMake to your image location:

- (void)viewDidLoad {

[super viewDidLoad];

DraggableImage *dragger;

CGRect dragRect = CGRectMake(10, 250, 100, 10);

dragger = [[DraggableImage alloc] initWithFrame:dragRect];

[dragger setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"block.png"]];

[dragger setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];

[self.view addSubview:dragger];

}

You do not need to change anything in Interface Builder.

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Our first iPhone Game Submitted to the iPhone App Store

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Two days ago we submitted our first iPhone game to the iPhone App Store. We're very excited about our future in mobile gaming and productivity software. We'll be launching our new forms software to the iPhone next year, and we'll also launch it to the new Windows Phone.

Our company is a progressive company that is always moving forward with technology. Mobile platforms are our future. Android, Windows, and iOS are all platforms that will continue to permeate our culture in the US and abroad. WebOS and the new Symbian phones will also have some impact. Although, the Nokia Symbian system will be more impactful abroad.

We look forward to hearing your mobile ideas, wants, and needs so that we can continue to put out great software.

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