'Friday Funk'

It’s official. The email claim that two moons will appear in 2010 is a hoax. NASA has confirmed it — for the seventh year in a row. According to Snopes, the rumors surround an occurrence on August 27, 2003, in which Mars made an extraordinarily close approach to Earth and appeared six times larger and [...]

Maybe it’s because you’ve spent so much time together. Perhaps it’s because it knows so many of your secrets. Or it could just be that you remember what you paid for it. Whatever the reason, getting rid of an old computer can be a difficult thing. Once you decide to make the break, just what [...]

Looking for some excitement? Craving adventure? How about getting involved in a little internet piracy on Facebook? Aye, but ye needn’t be a frettin’, it’s all perfectly legal. All you have to do is “amend yer options.”

We were playing with this website we’ve known for a while now: http://web.archive.org/ and thought it would be a ton of fun to share with our readers what Upright’s home page looked like when the company first started in 1996. Take a tour through our flashback time machine. 1996 2001 2004 2010 Be sure to [...]

(The Los Angeles Lakers are 2010 NBA Champions with an 83-79 win over the Boston Celtics.) As shown by the riots outside the Staples Center last night after the Lakers win, local fans get pretty excited about their team. But does public excitement translate into positive  reviews of these franchises in Google Maps? Actually, no. [...]

Many of us at Upright Communications rely heavily on Google Help Forums to ask questions about Google services such as Gmail, to suggest changes to services that we’d like to see and to even to discuss results we’ve seen with other webmasters. Google Help is monitored by Google employees and often answered by them. In [...]

As a big LOST fan, I was a bit unsure as to how I felt about the ending. There were a lot of questions left unanswered about the Island itself, but the lives (and deaths) of the characters were pretty well explained. Still, I’m not sure it was the perfect ending. Luckily for all of [...]

So I’m a coupon freak, I’ll admit it. The thrill of saving a few bucks is pretty awesome. And popular coupon sites like Groupon and Cincy Savers have introduced me to all sorts of new stuff that I never would have tried without the allure of saving a couple bucks while doing it. Now I’m [...]

Everyday at Upright Communications, we walk up what feels like a million stairs, open the hallway door, walk past the fake plants,  enter our “think tank” and begin a hard days work.  However, the other morning, we had quite a different experience. After we made it to the top of Mt. Everest, we were confronted [...]

Big Brother, er, um, Google… sends their vehicles all over the world to capture images of our fair planet in an effort to provide a great visual map for it’s users. We look forward to sites like StreetViewFunny where people share all sorts of hilarious and interesting Google Street View shots from around the world. [...]