Posted 2 months ago at 9:03 pm. 0 comments
I miss my Mac. I work on a drone of a PC at work and I am always amazed at how much better my Mac is when I come home to do “other” work. Tonight, I quickly found files (Spotlight), recorded a quick video to say hey to Hannah’s Grammy and Grandpa and Papa and GeeGee (Photo Booth), then produced and published it with professional captions (iMovie ‘08) to an easy to use, easy to manage web site (.Mac Gallery and Movie). I updated my phone via the Bluetooth (which works… Vista ate my drivers at work). Its the little things, the working or not working, the software doing what I want, quickly and easily… or not. I with we could switch.
Posted 3 months ago at 12:17 pm. 0 comments
Little did I know that back in October I would be asked to fork over another $24.95… my Sony earbuds crapped out today. Just one ear mind you, but who wants that? Vincent van Gogh maybe. I figured, I have Sony, they are a good company. I will call. Ha! I was on hold for 20 minutes, asked repeatedly if I could not understand the prompts (I’ve taken to not pushing buttons when a machine “talks” to me - I really would rather speak to a person) and then, while waiting, I noticed the online chat… 
So I “chatted” with John at Sony…here is the screen capture of our conversation (the gray area was captured after John the analyst closed* the chat)t where I was basically told that the best Sony - yes that Sony, the international powerhouse Sony - could do is charge me $24.95 to ship them a pair of $30.00 earbuds that they would either repair or (more likely) replace with factory refurb ones.
Umm, let me think about that… I can pay you to fix these headphones or go get news ones for damn near the same price… Jeez John, I am not sure. Maybe… No! I mentioned that I was going to post this on my blog and I am reasonably sure that he understood Sony would be getting bad press (though admittedly very small). That did not impress him. (By the way, if you look toward the bottom of the exchange, John did stay with me for a second… not sure if he looked at the post, but I sent him a link while I was putting this up.)
* I think that he took offense when I asked if my options were “crappy” and if he liked working for a company where he enforced crappy options for customers… that he said the nature of the conversation was profane seems excessive BTW SFW
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago at 7:42 am. 0 comments
I hope to launch the redesigned version of moultonstudio.com by winters end. For now a small preview…
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago at 7:36 am. 0 comments
But I think that I might be a fan now… Sprouts, which are something like widgets, allow designers to quickly create functional content for the web. I got in on the beta and will post my thoughts. Any other users out that are playing with this site? I happened to see it on TechCrunch. The interface is actually very cool, exp. if you have used Photoshop before. It took a couple minutes to get comfortable, but once you have an idea, it forms up quickly. I can see how this site/service/tool will be helpful for the quick, one-off projects. I can see building proof of concepts here and then paying for a fully custom version if it pans out.
Posted 5 months, 4 weeks ago at 6:57 am. 0 comments
A while back I had tried Flock, I liked it but the plug-in support was missing. Now I think it looks like it might be a personal browsing and research tool, FireFox is great for testing but is slowing with the plug-ins I use for development.
Tags: web, browsers
Posted 6 months ago at 9:30 pm. 0 comments
Its conference time again and Web Directions North ‘08 has my eye. To go or to not to go? That is the question. On the on hand, there is the fact that the conference turned out to be a fantastic time, the people were great and the biggest problem ended up being limited Wi-Fi (though I suspect that they have that corrected after seeing the comments last year).
Are you going? I am considering it or South by Southwest….
An interesting photo, from an interesting night.
Posted 6 months, 1 week ago at 2:01 pm. 0 comments
A fifteen minute post. Um what? It is 4:44 p.m. and I have 15 minutes until the weekend starts - enough time for a quick post but not enough to start on another project. And to be honest, I am for some reason burnt after this week. I think that the work has been more tedious than creative… never a great sign, but at least its done!
On Monday, we (Jen and Nick and I) are heading to Chicago for the Adobe Illustrator CS3 Seminar. I hope that this turns out to be a good conference. For the price I think that even if I learn just two helpful tip or a better or new workflow it will be worth it. The instructor is Bert Monroy, and his work looks amazing.
Also, we have talked about heading to Maggiano’s for lunch or dinner, I am not sure. If we do end up heading to Maggiano’s I hope they have the “Warm Spiced-Pear Cake” - that was an amazing treat the last time I visited.
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago at 8:39 am. 0 comments
Today I am beginning to look at industry benchmarks for “Learning Centers”, Support, Help and other online resources. If you have any suggestions… serve ‘em up here. It seems that Apple Support will be my first stop. Continue Reading…
