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16toads launches PAL

PAL LogoThis past week, after six months of after-hours design and development, 16toads finally launched a personal project we conceived last year, The Professional Artists League. The idea behind PAL is simple. We wanted to create a real online community for artists

Posted by 16toads on 06/18 at 11:53 AM in Company News • (0) CommentsPermalink

The “Cost” or “Quality” Conundrum

At 16toads, we often receive referrals from other small business owners who have a colleague in dire need of a web site or a “fix” [read: repair]. Often times, the individual who was referred has already gone the through the web design process with another company.

Posted by 16toads on 06/05 at 08:11 AM in Blatherings • (10) CommentsPermalink

The Orphan Works Act of 2008

Creative professionals ... Two tendentious pieces of legislation are now being sponsored by our “friends” in Congress that will give corporations another big advantage in the arena of “creative rights”.

Bill # H.R.5889 & Bill # S.2913 - These bills effectively release creative work, whose authors or originators cannot be found, to be used by anyone, including major corporations. This will allow large corporations to take advantage of the limited understanding of

Posted by 16toads on 05/14 at 06:44 AM in Industry News • (1) CommentsPermalink

16toads Donates to Camp Cocoon

We were invited to play in the The 2008 Neil L. Pruitt Sr. [Charity] Golf Tournament held in conjunction with the UHS-Pruitt Spring Conference. The proceeds of the tournament benefit The United Hospice Foundation and Camp Cocoon.  Camp Cocoon is a weekend camp for

Posted by 16toads on 05/13 at 07:32 AM in Company News • (2) CommentsPermalink

16toads attends 08 UHS Vendor Fair

Our longest-standing client, UHS-Pruitt Corporation, invited us to participate in their annual vendor fair held in conjunction with the UHS-Pruitt Spring Conference and Neil L. Pruitt Sr. [Charity] Golf Tournament. 

We would sincerely like to thank all of the

Posted by 16toads on 05/13 at 07:18 AM in Company News • (0) CommentsPermalink

Absolut Ignorance

A current Absolut ad running in Mexico has managed to elicit cheers from Mexicans and (who would have guessed) condemnation from people in el Norte.

The billboard and press campaign, created by advertising agency Teran\TBWA, is a colorful map depicting what

Posted by 16toads on 04/09 at 09:13 AM in Industry NewsBlatherings • (0) CommentsPermalink

DRM-Free Music with AmazonMP3

I recently ran headlong into the wall that is Apple iTunes DRM (also known as FairPlay). What is DRM? The short explanation, for those of you who need it, is that DRM is Apple iTunes' method of protecting music from being "shared" or "pirated". The argumentative

Posted by 16toads on 04/08 at 04:52 PM in Industry NewsBlatherings • (6) CommentsPermalink

Streamline your business and work flow

Over the years, we have done a ridiculous amount of experimentation with software packages in an effort to streamline our business and our processes. Here is a not-so-quick run-down of the software we have come to rely on in our daily business and work

Posted by 16toads on 03/06 at 10:44 AM in Blatherings • (18) CommentsPermalink
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