Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Converting PDFs to JPEGs
We sometimes forget how powerful our little Macs our - forget about the Terminal command, but simply through the power of Automator. I needed to convert 237 images from PDFs to JPEGs for web use and amazingly Photoshop & sister app Bridge (both CS3) were completely unhelpful. No combination [...]
Vertical Market Solutions in FileMaker, Issue 0
There's not a lot of info, I realize, on the web or collectively disseminated about building a vertical market solution using FileMaker Pro as your development and user environment. Many people have built vertical market solutions, but few have actually spoken about it. Given this is something I [...]
Designing for politeness
“If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.” — Alan Cooper, The Inmates Are Running the AsylumI recently found an article on [...]
The problems with Jquery & WordPress as a CMS
I'm a big fan of increasing productivity by having computers do work for me. With the release of the website for InBloom version 2.0, I decided to use Wordpress as a CMS (content management system) so I wouldn't have to fire up Dreamworks to make a correction or an update. So far, it's been work [...]
[...]Who knew? Printing on a Mac CAN be sexy!
The folks at NRG Software put up a post about how Mac OS 10.5.2 now has Zebra printer compatibility. For the uninitiated, this means Macs can finally interface to the Zebr [...]
The Stupidest Web Shortcuts
Forgive the rant, but who the heck thought of using the Command+Left and Command+Right shortcut for Back and Forward in a web browser (I'm looking at you Firefox)??? I can't even begin to count the number of times this shortcut has created necktie-in-the-shredder frustration and had me accidentall [...]
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