A few days ago I wrote about an unpleasant experience with a software company, onOne, and I referred to them as offOne. That post explains all the shortcomings of a support and service system. Yesterday, I received the following e-mail from onOne, which was very close to an apology without … [Read more...]
offOne
Some companies succeed despite themselves. They do not respond to customer or even partner requests for assistance and information. One such company is onOne Software, which I will call from now on offOne and here is why. I attended a Kelby Training seminar in Hartford, CT on September 20, 2012 … [Read more...]
A Little Fun
A friend forwarded the new HP commercial featuring the Evian Babies. It is very enjoyable, as are most productions showing a baby or babies. But it also speaks to the quality of computer aided (or generated) imaging. The life-like movements, fluid transitions, and highly believable action is … [Read more...]
Photoshop CS6 Quick Review
Adobe announced the public beta release of the next Photoshop, anyone can download and use the new release until it expires after the release of the actual product. Superstition, as it is codenamed, has, as usual, many new features; some just fine, others are very useful, almost "must have" features … [Read more...]
MagCloud Update
A while back I wrote a two-part article (Part 1, Part 2) about a recommended workflow for publishing with MagCloud which has received favorable feedback from both MagCloud and other readers. In those posts I mentioned that MagCloud used two different profiles for saddle-stitched and perfect-bound … [Read more...]
Free Cloud Storage
The cloud storage, files stored somewhere on the Internet, has become popular and easy to use. In the old days, this kind of storage would require FTP upload and download of files without any other functionality. Nowadays it is hard to choose which service to use as many companies offer … [Read more...]
Browser Add-ons
Web browsers have become indispensable tools in our daily lives. We use them for work, entertainment, shopping, reference, etc. My choice for browsers has been Firefox for quite a few years now, mainly due to its rich collection of add-on or plugin support. I have come to rely on them so much that I … [Read more...]
Smart Publishing with MagCloud Part 1
This is going to be a two-part series. Before getting into the second part, I strongly recommend that you read and study my Printing Workflow presentation as it details how to accomplish some of the steps in reasonable detail. Although there are a couple of PDF documents for printing, they do not … [Read more...]
Proshow Producer Demo 2
Being on the beta testing team of a software product focuses attention in a particular direction; Proshow Producer is no exception. I am posting another demo that I created to experiment with different features that are already available in the public release. So, I am not divulging any secrets. My … [Read more...]
Proshow Producer Demo
I have been playing with new releases of Proshow Producer as a member of the Photodex beta testing team. Some friends who heard that a new release is offered to the public wanted to see what it could do that the earlier version did not. Earlier, during the testing stage I was not at liberty to … [Read more...]