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 [...]

Keeping Track of PDF’s

And Word files and spreadsheets and every other type of document. It used to be a real problem for me. Before desktop search applications came along I had a very complicated system in place for filing documents away. Folders inside of folders inside of folders. For the effort that I put in to filing documents [...]

Color Management

Every week I get at least five phone calls or emails that all ask the same question. Why don’t my prints from you match my monitor? Every one of them is a very time consuming conversation because there isn’t a simple answer. Volumes as thick as a dictionary are written on the subject, but the [...]

Java Apps on a Verizon Treo?

Yep, you bet. It is true that Verizon cripples up their phones with this Brew application layer. I don’t know what it is, but I know that Java apps don’t run on it. How’s that for an explanation? Whatever. You can STILL install Java apps on your Verizon Treo. Here’s how you do it.

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You don’t buy Dell?

Nope. Well, not any longer I don't.
We truly have had very few computer issues. Be they Dell, PowerSpec or VAIO our computers just work. We have had the odd hard drive failure but by and large life is trouble free around here in terms of hardware. Why then the no Dell policy? There are a [...]

“Apple Boot Camp causes hell to freeze over”

It’s official, Windows XP will run on the new Intel based Mac computers. There is a hack, but now there is also an official Apple solution Boot Camp that enables BIOS support for the MacBook and iMac.
Here is photographic evidence:

From the Apple Boot Camp web page:
EFI and BIOS
Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called [...]

Kodak DP1

We use Kodak DP2 software in the lab to manage quite a bit of the work that we do. It drives our Kodak HR500 scanner, accepts incoming work from LabPrints and soon enough ROES and also operates as our digital PVAC for color correction. It is an awful lot of money, but it does an [...]