Galileo became totally blind just before his death.

The U.S. of A shreds 7,000 tons of used currency each year.

Only 3 have ever won medals on both the Winter Summer Olympics: Eddie Eagan USA, Jacob Thames Norway, and Christa Luding-Rothenburger Germany.

Shakespeare spelled his own name in several different ways.

More redheads are born each year in Scotland than in any other place in the world.

 

 

In February of 2008 Adobe Systems announced Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). Adobe Air’s runtime environment is designed to bring a websites interactive content to your desktop without an Internet browser. Using Flash and HTML developers can access the API (application programming interface) and bring dynamic content from a website to a local application. The local application serves the user just as any other software would. Whether online or offline, users can access the content of websites like eBay.

 

 

Adobe Air provides users with the ability to drag and drop information to interact more easily with websites. Users can store certain sets of data such as transaction history, photos, and the like for access when offline. 

 

EffectiveUI, of Denver, Colorado, created eBay Desktop using Adobe Air. EffectiveUI revamped the entire user experience by creating the desktop application. eBay Desktop users now have the ability to drag and drop photos and text directly into the new application. Additionally, they can view some data while not connected to the Internet, users are able to display information from bids in real time through the use of ‘AJAX’ and, users can customize search and bidding pages as a result of the desktop application.

 

More information about Adobe AIR can be found on Adobe’s Website.

Directly from the Official Gmail Blog. Gmail takes precautionary measures to prevent sending those “nasty drunk emails” late at night.   By adding a new feature called Mail Goggles, Gmail can help determine if you are in the right state to be sending emails.   You can configure the new feature for certain days of the week and times within those days. By default it’s active on the weekends during the wee hours of the night – when most are likely to send inappropriate messages.   Although this is hardly relevant for the purposes of Axis’ blog, it demonstrates with unequivocal honesty, creativity and corporate culture that is not only condoned but promoted within Google. Google, along with innovation superstar, 3M, allows each employee to spend a certain percentage of their work week on individual projects. Both 3M and Google, take this approach to innovation because they realize each person in their own right can potentially develop a stunning new product or service that will be valuable – maybe not to everyone but possibly to a small niche.

 

  Again, this information came directly from the Official Gmail Blog: Read the full article.

The first Great Lakes lighthouses in the U.S. are in Buffalo, NY Erie, PA, in 1818.

One person out of 2 billion has a chance to live up to 116 years.

    I stumbled upon a website, www.colorsontheweb.com, that is dedicated to — you guessed it, color. In particular, the website focusses on colors related to the web. Not only does the site educate you on color theory, color physics, combining colors (how and why), but it has an extremely easy to use feature that lets you “spin” the color wheel to select three colors that go well together.   What is color? Simply put, color is the way our eyes and brain interpret electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths between 350 and 750 nanometers. The image below of the color spectrum shows the range of 350 to 750 nanometers. To the extreme left, or less than 350 nanometers, is Ultra-Violet. Likewise, to the extreme right, or greater than 750 nanometer, is Infra-Red.      Is a color just a color? No colors can evoke emotion, actions, thoughts, and more. Based on the colors you paint your office or the colors you select for your website we can determine the preconceived emotions and thoughts of visits. 

“Red is the color that provokes the most physiological responses. It has been shown that red causes the human heart beat and blood pressure to rise and to aid the interconnection of brain neurons. It has also been shown that people working in a red environment work faster, but they also make more mistakes. It increases restlessness and nervous tension. Also, red is commonly regarded to increase appetite.

 

Combining Colors

Combining colors can be difficult. Which colors go best together, which colors are best for a background and for contrasting text, which colors should be used to evoke a predetermined emotion? For the most part selecting colors that go well with each other is a personal preference. There are some guidelines that you can use when selecting colors but always select what looks good to you and don’t be afraid to ask for opinions. 

 

For more information on how to select colors for combined use please read this page: Combining Colors

 

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for your next design project!