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Adobe Opens Up Flash to be Indexed by Search Engines: Thoughts on the Implications

By Chris Olberding Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Flash is about to become indexable by the major search engines, however there are some significant technological barriers to doing it well.. [More]

station four gets the 3G iPhone... early!

By Chris Lahey Thursday, June 19, 2008
AT&T totally messed our order for cellphones and they felt so bad that they send us the new 3g iPhones... FOR FREE! Here I am yelling at my first client on my iPhone. It makes yelling at clients effortless and stylish. Here i am saying... "You better have paid dat bill. That was a MI... [More]

the irony of life

By Chris Lahey Friday, June 13, 2008
Life has a very ironic way of balancing things out. Just as Station Four had found our dream designer (The Beastmaster) our lead designer and internet marketer met his demise... by being eaten by a mechanic on Battlestar Galactica. Oh cruel world! WHY!!?? WHY-HA-HA-WHYYYYYYYYY!!!!!?????  ... [More]

Chris Lahey stars in feature length film

By Chris Olberding Thursday, June 12, 2008
Web developer Chris Lahey recently filmed a feature length movie under an assumed name:

Station Four Hires a New Designer!

By Chris Lahey Thursday, June 12, 2008
Station Four Hires a new designer!. [More]

station four goes real bowling!

By Chris Lahey Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Lately, we've been hitting the Silver Strike at our local pub fairly regularly. There is just something about good beer, good friends, and some good ol' fashioned fake bowling. With Chris O (COG) and myself (CML) rapidly upping our scores we knew it was time to try our hand in some real bo... [More]

2008: What We're Up To

By Chris Olberding Thursday, February 07, 2008
The Station Four team has been quite busy in 2008. So far the first part of the year has been pretty intense compared to strenuous days of too much food and cat naps that were the holidays. On the 17th of January, Chris Olberding and Chris Lahey attended an AIGA sponsored business roundtab... [More]

Photoshop CS3 Crashing When Opening a File

By Chris Olberding Thursday, January 31, 2008
Over the last month I had begun to notice significant performance issues when working with Photoshop CS3 eventually culminating Photoshop crashing when trying to load any file. Apparently PS has some major bugs and issues involving network printers. If your default printer is a network pri... [More]

Online ads more effective than television according to study

By Chris Olberding Thursday, December 27, 2007
A new study released by Simmons concludes that online advertisements lead to higher levels of consumer engagement that those viewed on a television set.. [More]

Collected CSS Wisdom: 9 Points of Debate

By Chris Olberding Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Nine points of potential discussion regarding optimal use and organization of CSS. Topics include CSS frameworks, microformats, ASP.NET and CSS, and organization vs. performance.. [More]