Archive for May, 2008

A Puzzle, A Lesson

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

If I can solve the fish problem, why can’t I seem to find a proper solution to this one?
The Photo Department
The Photo department has reached critical mass. After 10 years and 12 TB (yes, I do mean 12 terabytes) of photos, their Mac G5 finder windows will no longer search for photos with ease. Complaints [...]

GL2DW Extension Updated

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Rob Keniger has kindly taken the time to patch the GL2DW extension. You can get it here: http://menumachine.com/download/GL2DW.zip. From his description in the Adobe Forums:
1) the extension is now tolerant of any errors copying components or templates. If these errors occur, you will still see an error message but the conversion process will not abort. [...]

Give Mom Tech Support for Mother’s Day

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Aside from flowers, something Mom might appreciate is a working computer. Play tech support on Mother’s Day this year with a few free tools.
Clean up her computer performance by running basic maintenance. If she’s on a PC, do the usual: malware/spyware scan, antivirus scan, defrag, automatic backups, etc. Schedule these tasks to auto run if [...]

The Case of the Disappearing Product

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Many online businesses still follow the subscription model. It looks like the theory behind it is passive income. You built your idea once, then farm it out to the users on a yearly or monthly fee. Aside from customer support, on the surface it looks appealing.
Flickr, Wufoo, Mad Mimi and even Paypal uses a variant [...]

Fun Reading

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Eric Lundquist’s 10 New Rules of Techie Etiquette via Geek Like Me
Cool stuff done with CSS- a CSS Homer Head
25 Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic/Web Designer
Web Economy B.S. Generator
An Engineer’s Guide to Cats

One of my bad writing habits
Have a good weekend.