Now you can find out when your email has been read by the recipient! No more guessing: “Has he or she read my email yet?”

SpyPig is a simple email tracking system that sends you a notification email as soon as the recipient opens and reads your message.

Other Neat Web Stuff
ThickBox 3.1 - ThickBox is a webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery library. Its function is to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal.

Sidewalk - Custom webform creator

Interesting. Test your web design in different browsers.

• FontStruct - Build, Share and Download Fonts.
• The 6 Most Important CSS Techniques You Need To Know
• From 0 to 2000+ Subscribers in 90 Days
• ProQuo.com - Stop Junk Mail!

We’re starting a new feature here at the Fifty Studio blog. Website of the day. (That doesn’t mean we’ll put one up every day).

Story of Stuff with Anne Leonard
The design is simple and clean (nothing complicated), and her clever use of video and Flash animations is a mind bottling way for her to market her DVD.

Other Cool Websites

• Vector 4 Free - Free vector graphics presented and sorted by tags
• IE CSS Bugs That’ll Get You Every Time
• 30 Cool CSS Techniques

Got a new project where we need to calculate the distance between zip codes (find a retail location). I used an open-source script in a project a few years ago, but didn’t want to try to dig that up and create a CakePHP wrapper for it (I’m lazy apparently).

CakePHP - Zip Code Distance Calculator

CakePHP Downloads

• CakePHP Authorize.net Component

It seems kinda crazy to us, but apparently some people think that our work blog should do more than be random posts and us talking about how cool we are (17 out of 10) or listing new or finished projects.

Fine. Be that way.

So for your listening pleasure we’ve attached a CakePHP component we wrote for processing cards through Authorize.net. We call it ‘CakePHP Authorize.net Component.’

Download Here. Instructions are included. Batteries aren’t.

You know how everyone makes fun of a bunch construction workers standing around watching only one guy doing the actual work? Well we had a construction moment here the other day…

Keep up the hard work everybody!

We got excited lately when the analytics on our Fifty Studio site exploded to almost a 1,000 hits a day. After digging around we found that most of that new traffic is coming from China, Japan, and Korea.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but we were surprised since Asia isn’t high on our list of target markets (or future growth markets). Apparently, some ‘Cool Flash’ award sites in the Far East picked up our site and it’s been making the rounds ever since.

Some screenshots are included below for your enjoyment.

We are proud to announce the launch of our latest project. A little more than a month ago we discussed a new project with APX Alarm, one of the leading alarm sales companies in the nation, to develop a new sales recruiting site, I Am APX, and a revolutionary new site focusing on company news, APX Insider.

I Am APX

For the I Am APX site we created a fully flash site integrating lots of video in a variety of unique formats. It all started with some preliminary discussions with APX’s Marketing Director, Kevin Swiss, to develop a revolving video player to use on the home page. We also incorporated some chroma keyed video that comes to life right on your screen, and helps educate potential recruits on various positions at APX. We couldn’t be happier with how it all turned out.

APX Insider

APX Insider may have been even more ambitious however. It marks our first full-blown news portal, and since there were so many special needs and features we developed a custom system to allow editors and reporters access to add their own news stories about APX and its employees. The results is a tight integration of custom news content and well-produced streaming video allowing APX employees the ability to stay up to date on what’s going on in their corporate culture.And while we’d love to give you a tour, the site is restricted to APX employees only.

Check out the site and drop a line in the comments with your thoughts.

Graydon

Fezzari Bikes just signed up to get a new website from Fifty Studio, and we want to congratulate them on their decision.

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