Aptera was invited to speak at Connections 2009, the largest e-mail marketing conference in the world. The sold-out event was hosted by ExactTarget, an e-mail marketing service provider based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Brooke Francesi, Aptera’s design team lead, gave a well-received panel speech on October 14 about how Aptera leverages e-mail marketing for business development.

“I am hoping that you’ll be back to speak next year and discuss your success with segmentation in 2010!”
Kevin Bobowski, Director of New Business

Aptera understands that local students need to complement their education with hands-on experience by working on real projects. The Aptera environment provides a place where interns can get their hands dirty; we’re big enough to provide structure but small enough to welcome fresh perspectives. Over the summer, we welcomed two interns onto our development team. Ashley Myers and Eric Stokes worked diligently on a SharePoint Demo, taking responsibility for the full project and utilizing Aptera’s resources to complete it.

“Rather than saying, “go do this” or “code that”, Aptera was more freeform. The experience of going through the entire design ...

Aptera Software earned a place on Indiana’s second annual 50 “Companies to Watch” list. Selected from over 500 nominations, Aptera represented the only company from Allen County to receive the accolade. We joined other Indiana companies from numerous industries, ranging from financial services to telecommunications to wholesale foods.

“We were very excited to be considered for the list and extremely honored to be selected. Aptera is proud to represent Fort Wayne among so many other up-and-coming Indiana businesses. It’s a testament to the hard work our employees put in to help grow the company.”
- TK Herman, Aptera’s CEO

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Aptera was proud to take part in SharePoint Ignite, an invite-only training event performed by Microsoft employees. Brad Greubel, the Director of Consulting Services at Aptera, attended the event, which is the first of its kind. Sessions included deep-dive technical training on SharePoint technologies and sneak preview information about the upcoming version release and improvements.

Aptera’s participation in exclusive events like SharePoint Ignite is just one of the benefits to being a Microsoft Managed Partner. Training like this keeps us right where we want to be: at the forefront of new and exciting technology.

As designers, we can all agree that not all of the photos we receive are professionally taken or stock quality.  This quick tutorial will get your stale photos up to a higher quality using the Dodge and Burn tools in Photoshop.

Final Image Preview

Here’s a sneak peek render of what your photos can look like after you have completed this tutorial.  This tutorial can be applied to any photo's or graphics to enhance their quality for the web or print.  The image used was a random photo pulled off the web for this tutorial and as you can see ...