Dear Friend,

Since last month, Steve Jobs stepped down from his post as CEO of Apple, Bank of America continued to lose over half its value, and hurricane Irene gave us the willies. What more could happen? HP spinning off its PC division?

This month, Scott Spaid brings us two articles examining what might be the beginning of the end of the PC and our top 10 list of HTML5 websites and resources. We do the research so you don't have to!

The In10sity Team

Client Spotlight: East Tennessee Children's Hospital

Children's Hospital is a private, independent, not-for-profit pediatric medical center with two campuses in Knoxville, Tennessee. Infants, children and teens make about 160,000 visits each year to the 152-bed, full-service main hospital near the University of Tennessee and the Children’s West outpatient services campus in West Knoxville.

In10sity was selected to redesign and develop ETCH.com to create an easy-to-use design with powerful features for site visitors and administrators alike. The colorful, fun and whimsical design reflects the personality of Children’s Hospital and young patients. Families will find the site packed with great content and features such as current news, health and safety information, tools to “Find a Doctor” or “Send an E-card,” information on how to prepare for a hospitalization, an event calendar and much more. Site administrators, who are constantly adding new content to the site, enjoy using inPower CMS, In10sity's content management system.

"The Content Management System is amazing! Love being able to make updates in-house and love how user-friendly it is. This is a HUGE, HUGE improvement in that Children’s Hospital staff can now maintain our site without much technical knowledge."

Visit www.etch.com >>

Beginning of the End of the Personal Computer?

It’s hard to believe I’m writing this article as I never thought I would see the day when the PC would become the senior citizen of our hardware community. Some PCs are enjoying their golden years such as the hip granddad known as the Apple Macintosh (he prefers being called “Mac”). He has such cute grandkids, too: iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Other PCs aren’t enjoying their twilight years as much. Old Hewlett-Packard (“HP” thank you very much) isn’t doing so well considering two of his grandkids, the rambunctious TouchPad and his little sister, the Pre smartphone, just got killed. Things are so sad with HP that he is considering suicide.

Well, suicide might be a little dramatic, but HP has been considering spinning off its PC division in light of declining profits.

Read the rest of the article >>

Future Trends: Top 10 HTML5 Websites & Resources

For some of us, HTML5 is a big deal. For most of us, when we hear anything with HTML in it we go, “huh?” Well, I don’t blame you. If you’re doing your job and your nose has been to the proverbial grindstone, you shouldn’t know anything about it. That’s our job here at In10sity!

HTML5 is the next evolution of HTML or “Hypertext Mark-up Language” which has been used on every webpage since the dawn of the Internet. Over time, HTML has expanded to include derivatives and add-ons such as XHTML, DHTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, and Flash. What was once a simple language used to catalog and search academic and scientific documents has turned into somewhat of a programming language. Naturally, HTML and its cousins are starting to buckle under the weight  and demands of our increasingly e-commerce driven mobile universe we live in. As the lady in the infomercial says, “There’s got to be a better way!”

Read the Top Ten List >>

Quote of the Moment

"Internet people love acronyms because they make communication much more efficient, as we can see from the following typical conversation:
Person A: What's up?
Person B: Not much.
Person A: LOL. HEFY?
Person B: ROTFL.
Person C: PMFJ, but IMHO,
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- Dave Barry, Dave Barry In Cyberspace