Wilco.coop – Retail Stores, Agribusiness & Fuel Services

Wilco.coop

Wilco.coop

Wilco Coop Website Design & Development & Email Marketing

Project Managers: Alex Brauer & Trey Carskadon
Designed by: Melodi DuganGary Hepting
Developed by: Gary Hepting & Kevin Saelee

Wilco is a very dynamic organization with much to offer any of us who live and breathe all that the Pacific Northwest has to offer. Amazingly diverse selections of useful products, tools and supplies can be found at Wilco retail stores, as well as fresh new gear, snacks and refreshing beverage for the road. An immense amount of knowledge, know-how and what people need is what comes from the Agribusiness portion of the organization. Scientists, successful farmers and more come together to offer a vast array of services including fuel delivery as well as the convenience of the many Wilco fuel stations.

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31+ Awesome Android Apps and some Runners-Up

AppBrain App Market

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These are the best, the most amazing, the cutting-edge, pick-of-the-crop, Android apps available on the Market.

Many men died to bring us this information. We must honor their memory and celebrate the freedom they died to protect… by enjoying all of the free apps we can get our fingers (or thumbs) on. We must go forth and start customizing their configurations, tweaking their settings, and rating them in the Market!

  1. LauncherPro - Best replacement Home application for Android
    Runner Up: ADW Launcher
  2. Google Maps – GPS-enabled maps, step-by-step voice-guided navigation & directions
  3. mVideoPlayer - best video player app for Android
  4. Pandora - Internet Radio that plays what you like
    Runner Up: Last.fm
  5. Google Voice – Google Visual VoiceMail, SMS and more
  6. Gmote 2.0 – Touch Pad, Keyboard and Media Controller for your PC over WiFi
    Runner Up: RemoteDroid
  7. EStrongs File Explorer – Best file manager and file explorer for Android
  8. EStrongs Task Manager – Absolutely the best task manager/task killer for Android
    Runner Up: TaskPanel Lite or TaskPanel X
  9. MySettings - Quick toggle settings on your Android
    Runner Up: Quick Settings
  10. AppBrain App Market – Best way to search, sync and manage your beloved Android apps – also use Fast Web Installer
  11. Shazam - Music Discovery Engine
  12. Awesome Drop (File Sync)Drag and drop to sync files to your phone from a web browser
  13. myRemote - Best WiFi remote control for Windows Media Center
  14. Boxee - WiFi remote media controller for Boxee
  15. RoMote- Roku DVP remote control over WiFi
  16. Personal Finance by PageOnceTrack all your bank, credit cards, bills, and other accounts on your phone
  17. Dropbox - Synchronization and cloud storage across all of your PCs and Android devices
    Runner Up: ASUS WebStorage
  18. PayPal - PayPal is now powered by Bump!
  19. QuickDesk Beta – Enhancement to Home Application
    Runner Up: Launch-X
  20. Toggl Timer - Track your time on the go with the official Android app for Toggl.com
  21. Skyfire Browser – server-assisted video pre-compression and streaming services
    Opera Mini
    - server-assisted webpage pre-compression – save money on bandwidth
  22. Facebook for Android- updates your status, view your News Feed, upcoming Events, and friends, upload photos, read messages
  23. PdaNet Free Edition – USB Tether and Bluetooth Internet connection sharing
    Runner Up: EasyTether Lite
  24. WYSE PocketCloud RDP/VNC -Beta – Very fast Remote Desktop Connection over RDP/VNC protocols
  25. AppMonster - Backup, restore and manage your apps
  26. Mobile Banking - Do virtually everything you can at a Bank of America ATM or branch
    Runner Up: Wells Fargo Mobile
  27. Bump - BlueTooth powered contact info and file sharing
    Runner Up: BlueTooth File Transfer
  28. RingDroid - Make ring tones by taking samples from audio files on your phone
  29. Google Gesture Search – Search your phone contacts, apps, emails, messages and more with gestures
  30. Google Goggles - Augmented reality browser/camera, Android barcode scanner and more
  31. WordPress - Write new posts, edit content, and manage comments with built-in notifications

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Designed by: Gary Hepting
Developed by: Gary Hepting

Crimson Trace has shipped nearly a quarter-million sets of Lasergrips to gun owners. The U.S. Military, major law enforcement agencies, security-minded citizens, target shooters and handgun-hunters around the world know this: When it comes to quality products and a commitment to servicing the needs of our customers, Crimson Trace is a name you can trust.

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I took it and so should you—The Survey For People Who Make Websites, 2009: http://aneventapart.com/survey2009/

Moving on from IE 6 in 2010. Google no longer supporting IE 6

I got another awesome letter from Google today I thought I should share with the world, because it means thing will be changing for the good in 2010.

Google has officially announced it will not be support IE 6 browsers on a few of their major services, such as Google Apps (letter below), YouTube and Gmail.

Dear Google Apps admin,

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology.  This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5.  As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 ​as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010.  After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.

Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.

Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser.  We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.

In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience.  We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.

Thank you for your continued support!

Sincerely,

The Google Apps team

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Google Inc.
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Mountain View, CA 94043

I feel like this movement has been long awaiting the support of a giant such as Google to back it. Microsoft has not supported or even accepted any responsibility for the IE 6 browser quite some time and it is non-sense to continue to apply hacks and work-arounds to perfectly legitimate website code to support it.

However, as website developers and owners, I also believe we should make the initiative to instruct our visitors using IE 6 that they need to change their software before we just cut them off completely. Implementing User Agent detection and displaying messages to these users on every page they view might be a good start. Offering them their choice of downloading IE 8, Firefox 3.6, Safari 4 or Google Chrome 2 would also be a great way to encourage them to upgrade.

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