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A Lesson Quickly Learned Via Technology

This morning my son, Jack, asked me if he could see the Panama Canal on a map. Should I get out the atlas and show him? Maybe Wikipedia? There were lots of things we could have done, but I opted to pull out my smart phone. My phone is a Droid with Google’s android OS, but other smart phones or my wife’s touch would have worked as well. A computer could do the trick as well, but that is so last year. Here is what I did:

    1. I turned it on and pressed the maps app.
    2. Pressed the search button
    3. Pressed the voice search button
    4. Spoke the words “Panama Canal”

A Barage of System Problems

The latter half of last week and now early this week, I have just been hit with a lot of system problems and a lot of down time. To sum this up, my Adobe Creative Suite then my Microsoft Office suites stopped working. Both indicated licensing and user access permissions were no longer valid. In fact, my licensing was fine, it just stopped working properly on my system.

I use 3 licensed applications extensively and two of them failed in the same day. Fortunately, all the open source applications I use don’t and probably will never have a similar problem. Just to be fair, I think the Office problem started because of the fixes necessary to get the creative suite working.

Helpful Hints for Form Input

When you have limited space on your home page or any other page for that matter, it is nice to provide a little more helpful information for the use where form space is limited. Now, by just adding a single attribute to your input text, your will get the gray help text in your input box.

<input hintvalue="Search ..." class="smallbox" name="s" type="text" autocomplete="off" />

Just add the javascript from this article and any styles that you want and you are done. Here is a working example. Click in the boxes and watch it work.


New Website Released

Opportune Solutions has released this all-new website. Those of you who visited the old site will notice that the logo has changed. Officially, the Opportune Solutions logo is still the old version which is only 3 colors and 2D. The new logo, although now only based two colors is actually made up of many colors to properly highlight, shade and create the reflection.

St. Christopher's Episcopal Church
St. Christopher's Episcopal Church

St. Christopher's needed an updated website that could provide changing information to their parishioners and anyone else interested in St. Christopher's. Their website cycles through beautiful images with descriptions at the top of every page.

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Chris' professionalism and attention to detail is his strength; he is both creative and prompt, and continuously focuses on our institution's needs. We attribute our online success to Opportune Solutions.

Tracy Wilson
Marketing Manager
WyHy Federal Credit Union