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Image file sizes

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A web developer from Bloomington, Illinois. Get in touch. I recently resized a background image for a client from 1500px wide to 2500px wide, and the new, bigger, image ended up being about 10 KB. In size. How did I do it, and why is this important? I used a free program called Squeezer. 2011-03-04 Filed under Uncategorized. Using the F8 Lite Theme. Or subscribe to comments. All content 2016 by Michael Gorman.

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Activity – March 2011

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A web developer from Bloomington, Illinois. Get in touch. Activity – March 2011. After getting a Fitbit. For Christmas, I’ve been tracking my steps, Caloric intake and burn, and other relevant health-related data. As a means to hold myself accountable, I intend to publish much of this data on my blog each month. (Here’s February’s data. My best stats this month: 13,624 steps on March 1; 3,541 Calories burned on March 28; 12.95 kilometers on March 1; and 138 very active minutes on March 28.

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Activity – February 2011

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A web developer from Bloomington, Illinois. Get in touch. Activity – February 2011. After getting a Fitbit. For Christmas, I’ve been tracking my steps, Caloric intake and burn, and other relevant health-related data. As a means to hold myself accountable, I intend to publish much of this data on my blog each month. (Here’s January’s data. 2011-03-02 Filed under Uncategorized. Activity – February 2011. Pingback: Michael Gorman » Activity – March 2011. Using the F8 Lite Theme. Or subscribe to comments.

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Storytelling

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A web developer from Bloomington, Illinois. Get in touch. Saturday, June 5, 2010. I’m buying sunglasses from Julie Kubsch at Specs Around Town. I mention that I heard about her store from listening to GLT. The local NPR member station). She gets that look in her eye, like, “oh, boy, have I got something to tell you.” She asks if I’m a fan of Ira Glass, host of This American Life. Must have been my voice. I guess I do have a pretty weird voice. For the next several months, I hear the Ira Glass show promot...

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Hulu Ad Tailor

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A web developer from Bloomington, Illinois. Get in touch. Hulu has this nifty feature called “ Ad Tailor. The problem is, it doesn’t seem to work. I don’t drink. The only alcohol I’ve ever consumed is communion wine. I don’t plan to drink. I won’t get into my reasons here, but suffice it to say, advertising alcoholic products to me is a waste of money. So I click on the “not relevant” button when these products are advertised to me. So, why do they keep advertising to me? Using the F8 Lite Theme.

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Why I didn’t get a new iPhone

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A web developer from Bloomington, Illinois. Get in touch. Why I didn’t get a new iPhone. If they want to charge a 30% recurrence fee to any app with subscription-based payments processed through their system, fine. But if they decide to require that any app running on hardware they built charge all recurring payments through their system. Outright forbid anyone from having cheaper plans available outside of the iOS ecosystem, I say, go bleep yourself, Apple. 2011-02-23 Filed under Uncategorized.

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2-Step Verification

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A web developer from Bloomington, Illinois. Get in touch. The idea for this blog post came from a reader just like you. All he did was send me an email asking for my thoughts on two-step verification. If you have any questions you’d like me to answer, or other blog posts you’d like to see, please email me: michael@michaelcgorman.net. Google recently enabled support for 2-step verification. Probably about one person out of every thousand. Why? How does 2-step verification solve this problem?

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Working for IWU

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A web developer from Bloomington, Illinois. Get in touch. After graduating from Illinois Wesleyan. In 2010, I started working as a freelance web developer with a primary focus on small businesses and nonprofits in the Bloomington/Normal community. Since then, I’ve worked with the Hispanic Families Work Group. Milestones Early Learning Center. The Community Health Care Clinic. And Life is a Blank Canvas. To name a few. I’ve also been honored as one of McLean County’s 25 Under 25. Using the F8 Lite Theme.

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Two months with the CR-48

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A web developer from Bloomington, Illinois. Get in touch. Two months with the CR-48. I’ve had my CR-48 for about two months now, and I’ve got to say, I’m really finding less and less that I can’t do on it. The one real problem it has is video playback; especially on videos with a lot of movement, it skips a lot of frames. 2011-02-28 Filed under Uncategorized. Using the F8 Lite Theme. Or subscribe to comments. All content 2016 by Michael Gorman.