Posted on May 15, 2008 by mvrankin
Tonight was the 10th anniversary of the last episode of Seinfeld (and coincidentally, the last call for Mr. Francis Albert Sinatra). I always got a kick out seeing the Mac in the background of Seinfeld’s apartment, and how he silently “upgraded” each year to Apple’s latest and greatest. In the final season, Jerry even had [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2008 by mvrankin
The colors of spring are starting to pop where I live. The forsythia are spewing pure 100y by the driveway. The birch are popping a crazy out-of-gamut green, something like L74a(65)b65, The magnolias are blooming default [paper] on Comm Ave. and even my grass is a greener shade of brown. So what better time than [...]
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Posted on April 9, 2008 by mvrankin
Adobe TV blinked to life today. As if I had any free time to give. Looks like there’s nearly 200 videos divided among 4 “channels” (photographer, developer, video professional, and designer) so far. What, no page layout geek?! (sigh) print est mort.
Flipping through the channels, I saw many of the usual suspects from the Adobe [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2008 by mvrankin
Has it been more than a week since we left off with the cookbook project? My how blog time flies. Let’s continue.
During the first two posts on this topic, we converted the old XPress file, and tagged the content in InDesign and exported it. Right now we have XML masquerading as HTML. Let’s open it [...]
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Posted on April 5, 2008 by mvrankin
Very nice to read over my morning coffee that Adobe has made good on their intentions to revise the Photoshop Express Terms of Service to make them a lot less evil. In my first look at Photoshop Express, I was pretty down on Adobe for writing themselves ownership of your content throught the Universe. I [...]
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Posted on March 31, 2008 by mvrankin
Got my first hits from Technorati this weekend. Followed them back just to see what I look like from there. It is strange to see one’s words next to a flashing CapitalOne credit card ad, but such is life. Technorati also tells you where you rank in terms of popularity of the blogs it lists. [...]
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Posted on March 29, 2008 by mvrankin
The plan for this evening was to get the kids to bed, pour myself a tasty beverage and check out Photoshop Express. I intended to sign up, upload some pics and report back what I found out.
I am a tad cyncial about some of the “free” stuff companies offer online. So far, I love WordPress, [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by mvrankin
When we left off with our project, we had transmogrified the cookbook Quark file into InDesign, and a made few observations about the potential work needed to make it the apple of our cross-media eyes.
Remember, what we (I) have to work with is Quark Xpress 4.11, InDesign CS3, Acrobat, and no scripting knowledge, Xtensions, Xcetera. [...]
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Posted on March 25, 2008 by mvrankin
Now that all our Easter eggs have been consumed, let’s continue on with that XML theme with a little project to illustrate the joy and pain of bringing old content into the brave new world of cross-media publishing. The goal is to take the files from old print project, languishing on some dusty CD in [...]
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Posted on March 24, 2008 by mvrankin
As a family, we can never let Easter pass without watching our DVD of the funniest of all Peanuts specials, It’s The Easter Beagle Charlie Brown. For me, it’s worth watching just for Snoopy’s escalator antics and Woodstock’s insanely funky groove. My kids always scream and squirm and crack up at Marcy’s doomed attempts to [...]
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