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Famous blogger Robert Scoble has published a very interesting post today about Apple’s advertising and brand promise following his experience upgrading his Mac computer with Apple’s latest updates. He is making the point that Apple claims the Apple experience is better, that Apple builds better quality computers, various hardware and software than its competitors. So when he …
Following on my two previous posts on the subject of mind mapping (here and here), I have recently found another piece of my "mind mapping for project management" puzzle. I’m currently developping my project planning and tracking methodology based on mind maps made with MindManager and I am determining both what specific maps I’ll use …
It seems that Adobe is currently quite busy coming up with new useful technology and services. The first one is Share which is currently in Beta on Labs. Share is a service for publishing and sharing documents from anywhere and with whoever you choose. The intersteing thing I see for me is that you could …
My last post described the process of how I chose a mind mapping application. The introduction to that post briefly described why I thought it could be a valuable tool for idea generation and data organization and explained that I would use it as a project planning and management tool for my Web design and development projects. …
In the last few weeks I have been researching and evaluating Mind Mapping software to aid me in the early planning stages as well as structuring of Web site design and re-design projects. I think the concept of Mind Mapping offers a very efficient manner of gathering large amounts of data or ideas quickly then …
I’ve been wanting to address this issue here for a while now and this morning I got an email from one of my long time readers asking about it. So I decided to write a quick post to illustrate the issue and offer a solution. The problem: how Fireworks renders certain 1 pixel strokes as …
There has been a few threads in the Adobe Fireworks forum recently where some users were having performance issues with Fireworks on Windows machines. Most of the time, their problems can be traced back to their using either Norton or McAfee antivirus software. Both of those are notorious resources hogs that use ungodly amounts of …
About two weeks ago, Jeremy Shulz published an "interesting" review of Fireworks on Designorati. I put "interesting" in quotes because I strongly disagree with many of his points… starting with the title of his review: "Fireworks CS3 Is Looking For its Niche". I suppose I shouldn’t be but I’m always surprised when poeople who should know better …
Since I got my new computer, I’ve been busy installing software, installing Office, email and other basic applications as well as setting my new Vista environment and getting familiar with it. I’ll post later about my impressions on Vista. But Saturday, I finally installed Adobe Design Premium CS3 on the new machine. All I can …
…and it’s a screamer! I can’t believe I lived with my other one for this long. The new one is so much faster it’s not even funny. I’ll be keeping the old one as a backup so I got a Belkin swicth to use the same keyboard, mouse and monitor with both and plugged them into …