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The Best Help Manual… Ever?

By Emile • Jan 2nd, 2008 • Category: General

In the world of software and ever-increasing complexity in software, help manuals with proper grammar, clearly written language, and even better visual demonstrations of functionality are a hard thing to come by.  Should software even have a manual? How would you explain advanced functionality to users? As I’m finishing the 50+ page to the InBloom […]



Sharon Jones is free on Amazon.com

By Emile • Dec 27th, 2007 • Category: General

Amazon is offering a free 256kb DRM-less download of a fantastic song by Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings. If you love blues, soul, and just great music in the spirit of James Brown, BB King, Chuck Berry, and the hard blues John Mayer stuff, you have no reason to not get this song.
You […]



Merry Xmas!!!

By Emile • Dec 25th, 2007 • Category: General

And in case you need to see the best holiday card EVER, I’ve created it for you and you can find it below:http://www.rga.com/holiday07/index.html?cardID=67e57ab7-87f1-4f58-91b0-d76041523dc5
 



Secret Weapon Notes: The Bula Edition

By Emile • Dec 19th, 2007 • Category: General

As I previously wrote, I’m recently back from both a spectacular wedding and honeymoon, that included a much needed trip to some small deserted islands of Fiji, more precisely Matamanoa and LikuLiku. My favorite pic from the trip is to the right on an eve when the moon rose above Matamanoa in a most amazing […]



A quick hello

By Emile • Dec 9th, 2007 • Category: General

Back from a spectacular wedding and honeymoon, there is a lot to say and I’ll be posting much soon.
Bula!!!



And now… deep thoughts on Leopard

By Emile • Nov 2nd, 2007 • Category: General

It seems everyone and their spouse is chiming in on the GUI enhancements / f**kups put through in the most recent release of the Apple OS. I’ve been meaning to chime in on this but only until I’ve actually used the OS and understood the intuitive wrestling that goes on behind it.
Having said that, […]



Apple Leopard 10.5 is out

By Emile • Oct 27th, 2007 • Category: General

… in case you hadn’t heard or read about it… everywhere.
I’m not bitter, just tired of reading about Time Machine



Secret Weapon Notes: The Bubble Logo Edition

By Emile • Oct 3rd, 2007 • Category: General

Halo 3 came out, Photoshop has a new logo, and those 2.4ghz MacBook Pros are absolutely phenomenal.

John Nack on Adobe: Photoshop gets a new logo but they’re not the only ones addicted to Bubble Logo insanity, have a look at http://blog.eachday.com/2007/8/1/bubble-logo-insanity/
If you’ve ever struggled with the nuances of Copperplate Gothic, you’ll appreciate this article.
I stumbled […]



Secret Weapon Notes: The Inspiration Edition

By Emile • Sep 17th, 2007 • Category: General

Inspiration can come from every corner and from any time period. Here’s what I mean:

InBloom, SWL’s featured software made for retail businesses that operate on consginment like resale / consignment / ebay consignment shops, is getting more and more writeups, have a look for yourself.
Thoughts and pics of the original Macintosh user manual - […]



Introducing InBloom, a new application from SWL

By Emile • Sep 11th, 2007 • Category: FileMaker, General, InBloom, Software

InBloom is the first-ever complete shop solution made to organize your store and run on your Mac, PC, or both. It’s the only inventory management, point of sale, check printing, contact & buyer management, and more solution that is networkable and customizable. You can use and create the sexiest reports & receipts you’ve ever seen, share data and network computers with multiple users, and it doesn’t require a whole technology staff to run. All you need is your computer and a printer.