The news that taiwanese company Acer is taking over Dell as the number two PC maker has some folks rattled because Acer’s quality is considered by many to be inferior. Even their main US web site is, mildly speaking, not the cream of the crop. It just doesn’t feel or function like a top PC [...]
Archive for June, 2009
If You Don’t Think Your Product Is the Best, Read This
Published by June 29th, 2009 in Sales & Marketing. 0 CommentsForget this and the Customers will forget You
Published by June 25th, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsThere is one easily overlooked and yet ultra crucial aspect a lot of e-commerce sites are missing, and it’s costing them a lot of sales.
Even many technologically sound sites don’t do this. This doesn’t apply to adult sites but to everyone else this is really, really important.
It’s accepting customer payments via PayPal.
This is now more [...]
Normally I’m not into porn spoofs but they do have their place. Now, this one here is actually really well done – a porn parody of Seinfeld, starring James Deen as Seinfeld and a slew of other cast members who actually do a great job in satirizing Seinfeld’s show and still pulling off a porn [...]
Optimizing Windows 7 for Content Creation
Published by June 9th, 2009 in Because You Asked, Software Resources, Tips and Tricks and digital content creation. 0 CommentsAs I keep installing Windows 7 RC on several systems I remember that I wanted to quickly point out a few things you should do if you plan on using Windows 7 on your editing / content production systems.
1) After installing Windows 7 go ahead and disable automatic defragmentation, automatic download and installation of updates, [...]
Palm Pre Launch Email Goes Nowhere – Be Prepared
Published by June 6th, 2009 in Marketing with Kroy, Sales & Marketing, Tips and Tricks and Web Authoring. 0 CommentsWhat Not To Do In Marketing
So I get an email from Sprint just after midnight 06/06/2009 – As expected, the Palm Pre is now officially available.
After the hype Palm and Sprint have been building you’d expect those guys to put some extra care into the launch.
All pages should be up and running, all links working, [...]
Wikipedia for Porn – Carnalpedia.org Launches
Published by June 4th, 2009 in Marketing with Kroy and Web Authoring. 0 CommentsToday “Wikipedia for Porn – Carnalpedia.org” officially launches. This could potentially matter to you marketers and adult site owners as you are able to create and edit adult-related entries. So you know what to do. I verified this with Jeremy, the owner of Carnalpedia.org. Although, on a personal note: tread lightly here – if you [...]
NEC 43 Inch Curved Monitor a Video Editors Dream
Published by June 4th, 2009 in Gadgets and Technology. 0 CommentsOMG I so want one of these! For around $8000 NEC now offers this 43 inch curved (!), ultra- wide monitor.
As someone who constantly works with horizontally elongated timelines (editing and music production software mainly), NEC CRV43 would be fantastic to have. I was giddy when I got my first wide screen 24 inch monitor [...]
Bing.com Site Submission URL
Published by June 1st, 2009 in Search Engines, Tips and Tricks and Web Authoring. 0 CommentsMicrosoft’s Bing.com is causing quite the stir already because…well, it’s very good. Some very nice features, good design, and relevant search results. Check it out and starting learning because I have a feeling Bing.com will become quite important to webmasters in the near future.
Click here to submit your URL to Bing.com
Not really necessary but just [...]
Adobe CS4 Update: Premiere Pro 4.1.0, Media Encoder, AE
Published by June 1st, 2009 in Software Resources, Video Editing and Video Software. 0 CommentsFire up your favorite Adobe CS4 application and rejoice – the long anticipated update to Premiere Pro is here (4.1.0), along with updates to Adobe Media Encoder and After Effects.
Premiere Pro 4.1.0 has been expected to be released late May of this year so Adobe is pretty close. This update is important as is (supposedly) [...]
Looks like Mediafour’s MacDrive 8 will support Windows 7. The MacDrive8 beta is already available for you to download.
This is great news for video editors like myself who couldn’t wait and already migrated everything over the Windows 7. The only thing missing for me was MacDrive.
Click here to download the MacDrive 8 beta for Windows [...]
Windows 7 beta shutting down – Beginning Today
Published by June 1st, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsWindows 7 Beta
Reminder: if you’re using the Windows 7 beta your computer will begin shutting down every two hours beginning today, June 1st 2009.
If you haven’t already, go ahead and download the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) now.
Bing.com
Also on the Microsoft front, their new search engine, Bing.com is now live. I’m impressed so far, the [...]