Tim Kress-Spatz

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Suite Arrival

Suite Arrival provides a travel solution for smart, savvy travelers. We deliver the most popular personal care products right where you need them—in your hotel room.

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Ambush.TV

Ambush.TV creates original video content based on the passions of fresh faces from across the internet. we transform great ideas into high value, high definition productions of broadcast television quality.

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Live Streaming Michael Jackson’s Memorial Service

The memorial service for Michael Jackson is a huge event, not to be missed.  In addition to the monumental influence he has had on the world, there’s a second reason this even is so potentially significant.  This may be the event which draws the largest ever crowd of people watching a single event through streaming [...]

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Fun Lessons with my DSLR Camera

This weekend, I took my 4th full day off since February and went out to my family’s lake-house to celebrate the Fourth of July.
Aside from a much-needed break from creating shows, I got some play with my DSLR camera that I got for christmas, the Canon Rebel XS.
There were three types of photos that I [...]

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Riding With Nimish

Riding the train with Nimish.
Update: We sat next to a woman returning from a diving trip to Panama. She said there were over 50 species of shrimp there.

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Here a Tweet, There a Tweet

Everyone’s twittering about Twitter.
As @ev explained on @oprah today, the term twitter comes from the sound birds make when they’re communicating.  It symbolizes chatter; quick or light conversation.
So now that the rest of the world is catching on to Twitter, how do we “veterans” get them to understand what it’s really about?

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SaleFail – Salesforce.com Automated Sales Letter Fails

I just received an email from my sales rep at SalesForce.com.  Typically, these are just annoying, but I understand that everyone’s trying to sell something and I’m bound to be on some lists.
But this one actaully irritated me because it pretended to be personal, even off-the-cuff, but ended up looking like careless spam.
Take a look:

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Time Warner’s EarthLink Internet Loses the Race

I currently subscribe to the EarthLink High Speed Internet service from Time Warner Cable of New York and New Jersey.
I’d like to point out the irony of that service’s name: High Speed
For starters, let me tell you how I ended up with this particular service.

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Coding Forms in Good Form

If you’re looking to create an HTML form, I’d highly recommend skimming Fancy Form Design Using CSS by SitePoint.
This is a very straightforward article which highlights a lot of best practes for styling HTML form elements with CSS. The end result is a clean form, both visually and syntactically.

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Upload Components for PHP and Flash

Have you ever had to add an upload feature to your site? I haven’t had to do this in many years, so I was pleasantly surprised when I looked around and found that there’s some fantastic components which make this really easy.

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