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An overview of the last year on pixelyzed.com Now that 2008 is just about to start, I thought it would be a good idea to write a pixelyzed.com style year end review. There’s been a lot of activity in our little world last year as well as in other areas of the software industry. Throughout …
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 …
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 …
I just installed and am now testing a nifty little app called Windows Live Writer which is used to write to your blog through XML-RPC from your computer without the need to log into your blog’s admin area. Among the benefits of using such an app, you can save post drafts locally and have access to …
I completed the host switching I mentioned in my last post sometime last week and this is my first blog post since then. I’m very happy with my new host so far and all the errors with the blog I was getting have now stopped. I’m now testing the posting, pinging and I am also testing …
Last week I started the process of moving 3 sites to a new hosting company including this one, my business site (webfocusdesign.com) and a client site. My business site was registered at Network Solutions and I also switched registrar for that one and, of course, they made the whole process take forever… I’m glad to …
This blog is now running on MySQL instead of Access so there should be a lot less timout errors. There are a few things I still need to tweak to get all the blog entries to show up as the MySQL migration tool did not convert everything from Access perfectly but everything should get back …
As promised in my previous entry, the reason I haven’t been posting much here recently is that I have been playing quite a bit of music. I’ve also been learning how to use new toys (hence the "Enabling Technologies" title) that will enable me to record easier and with a much broader sonic palette than I …
There hasn’t been much activity here recently but there is a good reason for that… more in my next entry :-) In an entry I posted back in February (Playing Again…) I told you about my “previous” life as a musician and how I started to play again. I told you about a well known …