Workflow Software. Again.

Cue up the dead horse, but this question comes up A LOT, and has been asked of me again quite a bit. Here is a listing of available options that I am aware of. Again, we all know where I stand on the subject and I make no commentary on any of the options listed. [...]

Slacker Desktop Radio

Being the huge music fan that I am I jumped on the new Slacker Music Service the very minute that they released their online music player. It's free (and ad free until the paid service is ready) and I like bright, shinny new objects. I am a heavy user of both Sirius and XM Satellite [...]

Inkjet isn’t so bad

Had a very long discussion today with a guy I have spoken with a number of times regarding the lab and his debate about returning to lab printing as opposed to the inkjet’s that he has done for a number of years. He wanted me to convince him that printing in the lab was better [...]

We are all software pirates.

Well, we are if you listen to what the Business Software Alliance is saying about illegal software usage in the world from this article. Here is the important part to me:

“We know, for instance, that new PCs going to consumers in the U.S. generally have eight pieces of software, four of which are free like [...]

New Photoreflect Features

Very welcomed list of new options.
Here are the details on the PhotoReflect update:
Ability to select different photos with multiple photo packages    (option in Storefront Manager)Color effects – b&w, sepia, retro    (option in Storefront Manager)25 new storefront styles bringing the total to 101Advertising program out of beta    2% reduction in e-commerce fees for rich media [...]

Upgrades

It’s that time of year again. The time when ExpressDigital releases an upgrade version and raises the anger of a few people over the fact that upgrades cost money. I get the point about the cost of the software on the front side and then the ongoing annual cost of support and upgrades, but I [...]

Cox Cable Will Block Ad Skipping for Selected VOD

DirecTV is currently who gets my money but I have thought often of going to cable because of the Video on Demand feature that allows you to watch shows that you want to watch on demand. My local cable company sends me a mailer every so often touting this feature that I cannot get with [...]

Download of the week

Fonts. You can't live with them, you can't kill them. A system heavy with installed fonts is slow to start up and can also see slow downs in applications that load your installed font list like Word or Photoshop. There are lots of font managers out there, but the commercial applications are usually overkill for [...]