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Archive for August, 2006

CMYK to Grey

Rorohiko have released a plugin for InDesign to convert colour images to greyscale at print time: Rorohiko Color2Gray. Looks like it implements this InDesign technique, but in a much easier way.

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Anti-antidisestablishmentarianism

Why Do You Work So Hard?
Is it maybe time to quit your safe job and follow your path and infuriate the establishment?

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Virtualization
VMWare and Xen seem to be talking to each other again. So Xen is "piggy in the middle"?
Good news for customers is that an standard way of instrumenting virtual environments has been decided; and the freedom of choice prevails.
Turning Japanese
In Japan, 100Mbps Fibre to the Home, for a mere US$36 per month, apart from 100Mb/s [...]

Microsoft has a sense of English Humour

David Brent Management Training videos - of the same ilk as the John Cleese post Fawlty Towers management and sales training films on the 1970s - shows Microsoft UK has a sense of humour.
And way more important, is an English sense of humour.
It is obviously internal only: talking about Microsoft Values - in a very [...]

Adobe Store, AU+NZ Open

The Adobe Online Store, Australia and New Zealand is now open with virutally all Adobe products available.

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adobe, ecommerce, store

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Photoshop on the Mac Pro

Macintouch readers have reported on the performance of the new Mac Pros, and specifically how Photoshop CS2 performs under Rosetta vs. old Power Mac G5s.

Technorati Tags:
photoshop, adobe, technology, apple, macpro

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Laptops on a Plane

The world is a dangerous place, with a whole bunch of eejits. Sadly, the impact of no laptops on planes will have a serious impact on business travel. It shouldn't, but it will.
Many senior executives use this "down time" to catch up on emails and sort out their presentations/spreadsheets/reports. For many, this time is [...]

Joel Over-Simplifies Management

Joel on Software, one of the top ten blogs on the web follows the life and tribulations of CEO Joel Spolsky and his company, Fog Creek Software.
The movie/DVD, Project Aardvark, 12 Weeks with Geeks is an excellent view into a modern software company as you follow interns through the creation and release of Fog Creek [...]

One Mac Head, Two Minds

An excellent article from the New York Times: Weighing a Switch to a Mac. Interesting, as it goes through the two options: BootCamp or Parallels.
You don't need to leave your Windows-mind behind when switching. Now that I am disconnected from the Adobe-mind, I rarely use Windows applications. But then again, I've not really done [...]

No SUV’s here, Please

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