Mackrill Media http://mackrillmedia.com Creative Solutions. Custom Design. Wed, 20 Mar 2013 03:10:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The Future Is Coming (eh, maybe it’s already here) http://mackrillmedia.com/the-future-is-coming-eh-maybe-its-already-here/ http://mackrillmedia.com/the-future-is-coming-eh-maybe-its-already-here/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 02:43:16 +0000 Kim Mackrill http://mackrillmedia.com/?p=1980 When 2013 wraps up, people will be outnumbered on the Earth by mobile devices (Cisco). “With connected devices on the rise, mobile data usage is skyrocketing too — mobile traffic worldwide grew 70% in 2012, nearly double what it was the year before. It’s now 12 times what the global Internet was in 2000” (Mashable). ...

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]]> http://mackrillmedia.com/pc-spring-clean-up/feed/ 0 Consolidate Your Gmail and Google Apps Accounts, Make Your Life Easier. http://mackrillmedia.com/consolidate-your-gmail-and-google-apps-accounts-make-your-life-easier/ http://mackrillmedia.com/consolidate-your-gmail-and-google-apps-accounts-make-your-life-easier/#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:46:17 +0000 Jud Mackrill http://mackrillmedia.com/?p=1872 We are huge fans of Google Apps. In fact, we love it so much we are moving as many of our customers as we can to Google Apps. [Its free for businesses who have fewer than 10 email addresses.] One of the issues with Google Apps is that it creates a bit of a closed ...

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]]> http://mackrillmedia.com/consolidate-your-gmail-and-google-apps-accounts-make-your-life-easier/feed/ 0 Bringing Your Website To Life: The Power of Web Forms http://mackrillmedia.com/bringing-your-website-to-life-the-power-of-web-forms/ http://mackrillmedia.com/bringing-your-website-to-life-the-power-of-web-forms/#comments Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:23:36 +0000 Jud Mackrill http://mackrillmedia.com/?p=1792 This post is the first in a series that will walk through powerful integrations that help your website make more of an impact for the streamlining of your online presence.  Many websites are simply a version of an online brochure. The page structures are usually very similar and expected (About, Services, Contact, an so forth…). While there is ...

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