Archive for the ‘Misc’ Category
Staying in the Zone by Killing Distraction
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
The zone is that place where things flow. Birds fly music plays. It’s cheesy, cliche and sometimes hard to come by. Really the zone is where we need to be regularly to get things done. For many of us the zone only sometimes shows its head. We struggle to find it. Love it when it [...]
Power Breeds Complexity
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Yeah this is kind of an iPhone/iPod 3.0 software post. Sorry if you’re tired of it. We’re not doing a round up of cool features or anything like that so read on. My experience with my iPod 3.0 update was less than satisfactory. 3 hours 2 reboots 1 complete restore and I was up to [...]
Build Some Social Capital First
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Over the last few years social media has become a huge item for both personal users and business alike. Most people have a facebook profile. Many people and businesses now even have a twitter accout. But not everyone yet. I was recently asked to do some social media consulting for a business. They wanted to [...]
Web Designer Needed: Don’t Apply if you use Dreamweaver
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
We’ve all seen job adds like the title. One that bascially discounts you as a coder on the basis of your tool of choice. Once that basically says “real web designers/developers don’t use Dreamweaver.” I do use Dreamweaver. Oh yeah I also use Notepad++ and Textwrangler. I have tried coda (great by the way) and [...]
Becoming an iPhone Developer
Friday, March 20th, 2009
Although I have been an Apple developer for a while I haven’t done anything as far as learning how to code for OSX and I am not an iPhone Developer. Becoming an iPhone developer is actually an easy process. Just sign into your ADC account a sign up. There are 3 options for membership when [...]
Divert Yourself
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Like many creative types I also take some pictures (my flickr). Today I found some awesome pictures that inspired me with my own photography. Diverty yourself for a few minutes today with some photographic inspiration.
Apple Adds break Yahoo
Monday, December 15th, 2008
Sounds fatalist I know but really it is a very cool piece of advertising that goes beyond just a video in a box. One of the latest Apple adds doesn’t just have a video inside a box it actually interacts with the menu items on the site. This is obviously a very cool add that [...]
FOWD Seminars for Free
Friday, December 12th, 2008
Just found the seminars for FOWD (Future of Web Design) for free. For any web designers who missed this conference go check it out. I have only had the time to watch/listen to the presentation by Paul Boag which was amazing. Go check out all of the presentations and learn some real stuff about web [...]
Just Fix the Problem Now Regardless of Cost
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
It would probably be a safe bet that you have a cell phone. It would also probably be a safe bet that at one point or another they have been less than stellar in their customer service. Whether it was billing or a DOA phone or dropping your message box it has happened. The worst [...]
Freelancers Make yourself Accessible
Saturday, September 6th, 2008
A number of my readers are freelancers. We are always trying to find ways to get more work in the door with the least amount of effort. Often for freelancers that means using email. I would often much rather talk to a client via email than over the phone. It’s quick and I can fit [...]
