If you have a gmail account, you may have noticed recently a bright red link in the upper right hand corner labeled “Priority Inbox Beta.” This is Googles latest attempt to de-clutter your inbox so that you don’t experience the information overload you get every time you login. The priority mail setting splits up your messages into three groups:

Important and unread: Messages from people with whom you regularly interact and that were sent directly to you instead of an entire group.

Starred: E-mail you yourself have marked as important.

Everything else: Things that you don’t need to bog down your mind with at the moment. read more

Apple’s iCloud is expected to “leapfrog” the competition.

iTunes currently has approximately 225 million customers who listen to music, watch videos, stream podcasts and engage in practically all of the entertainment media has to offer. Users can listen & watch on their iPhone, Mac and even their iPAD. It’s just been hassle to download all of your songs from one platform to the next – until now. read more

Once upon a time, long long ago humans used to purchase items by exchanging personal belongings, everything from livestock and weapons to silk and human skulls. A typical transaction could have gone something like, You give me 7 cows and a gun and I’ll give you 10 chickens, a handful of tea and spices and a human skull. (Okay, well maybe not exactly like that.) Our form of currency has evolved rapidly since 6000 B.C. from shells to metal, leather, paper and gold etc.

Google plans to replace your wallet with a phone, but we have a feeling girls will still be holding on to these beauties.
Now, search engine giant Google, has set forth to reinvent the wheel once again with their newly unveiled Google Wallet. This comes with no surprise with the popularity of online electronic payments and mobile apps such as square; it was only a matter of time before Google would replace the handy leather material we all carry in our purses and back pockets. Here is how it works: read more

If you’re an avid blogger or blog reader like many of our Orange County Web Design team members, you probably discover new, exciting information about topics you love everyday. I personally love reading about the tech and design industry as well as delicious baked good recipes. You might like to read fashion, travel, restaurant or even fictional sports news blogs. There are also personal blogs that write just about everything including current events and politics- essentially anyone can have a blog. read more

With recent backlash for the site’s complete redesign, Digg has taken action to secure the sites future by hiring former Amazon General Manager of Payments, Matt Williams. His resume includes over a decade of experience at Amazon from GM Webstore to Director Tech Alliances, Director Commujnity & Cross-Merchandising to Director Auctions and Marketplace. Additionally, he has also served as the CEO of LiveBid. read more

At the beginning of this year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer highlighted the market-share gains for the Bing search engine as the company’s come back from “an economically devastating year.” Since then, Bing, rebranded as the “decision engine” has partnered with Yahoo! to increase its U.S. market-share that has grown from 8.4% to 11.8% in May 2010 right before it’s 1 year anniversary. They have claimed success with Bing Shopping, Travel and Maps, however, our Orange County Web Design firm still wonders: is it enough to overshadow the $6 Billion loss they’ve accrued over the last eight years? Here is a review of Microsoft’s numbers in the past 8 fiscal years: read more

Net Neutrality (n.)– a concept that advocates unrestricted data access from Internet Service Providers and governments on content, sites or platforms and equal treatment of all sources of content. read more