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Archive for June, 2009

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Our very unconventional server rack

by jake ~ June 12th, 2009. Filed under: Around the Office.

We love saving energy! One way we do that is by using low-powered laptops rather than bigger power-hungry monster machines. Web and other types of servers tend to live in big racks which require lots of extra power to cool them all. We just have two laptops and a couple of external USB drives instead.
At [...]

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Tommy Tablet

by jake ~ June 12th, 2009. Filed under: Around the Office.

Our collage backlog is now down to just 80 collages, and this funky chappy is largely to thank for that. Meet Tom with his awfully sophisticated graphics tablet that he uses to create some really awesome collages for your yearbooks. Having Tom here has helped free up Pratik and Ben’s time so they can create [...]

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Mistakes avoided by creating your yearbooks online with us

by jake ~ June 5th, 2009. Filed under: Around the Office.

There are many, many good reasons to create your yearbooks online with us. But by analyzing the Twitter stream I’ve come across the following quotes from people who are obviously not using us for their yearbooks:

“They spelled my last name, and some of my friend’s last names wrong in the yearbook. I say we sue [...]

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Lots of lovely colourful yearbooks

by jake ~ June 3rd, 2009. Filed under: Around the Office.

Here are six lovely and colourful yearbooks we’ve just finished working on and delivered to happy customers. A mixture of laminated hardback and paperback yearbooks, both of which allow for full colour and glossy covers, front and back. We prefer these to the two-colour and more expensive leather-effect hardbacks and so do most of our [...]

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Happy international customers

by jake ~ June 1st, 2009. Filed under: Around the Office.

Whilst 95% of our yearbooks are currently created for customers here in the UK, we do make the odd book for customers in Europe and further afield as they get wowed by our time-saving web-based yearbook system.
Here’s a glowing testimonial we just got from a customer in the Netherlands:
Without Allyearbooks, I honestly do not know [...]