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Via Truck

I’ve got some great friends, some unfortunately, I’ve never met in person. It never occurred to me when one of them asked me for my address, what they may be up to. When I returned to the office today from a conference I was surprised by an odd box siting in my cube. Not one [...]

Consume and Display Atom Feeds w/ Coldfusion

I’ve recently had need to consume and display an ‘rss’ Atom Feed from a blog I’ve set up using Blogger. Blogger more specifically addresses Intellectual Property for your posts, which was mandatory for this use. I need to display the article feed on various sites, all using Coldfusion as the application server. I also have [...]

Hold off on CS3 Master Collection folks!

After getting a little bit of a run around today, myself and another coworker got to the real issue we’ve been having with Adobe’s Creative Suite 3 Master collection.
According to Adobe tech support, the media is hosed.
It seems with a volume license key, you are prompted to activate. Upon attempting to activate, “This key has [...]

Apple Boot Camp Evaluation

I just got a Mac Book Pro at work. A coworker and I are evaluating and comparing virtual machines versus native installs of Windows. Beside the utter feeling of shame for jamming Windows on to my nice new pristine Mac, here are my findings from making Boot Camp work.
At the time of this documentation, Boot [...]

Parabolic Mic Pt. I

Some people call me a space cowboy, some people call me. . . Well no one even calls me Maurice. But hey, what I have been called is, turbo nerd, and geek. Tonight, I elevate it to the next level. I’ve been really into this wildlife photography stuff, if you couldn’t guess. But one thing [...]

Adobe D40 Raw Update available

Short and sweet. Raw update 3.7 for Photoshop CS2 now includes the D40.
Narrator:And there was much rejoicing. Monks:[Sullenly] Ya
http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html
For Windoze go to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CS2\File Formats. backup the original file and put the new one in place.
Or download updates through the help menu.

Swat this Fly or Why Registerfly Should be avoided at ALL costs

A long time ago, there once was a good, helpful, and inexpensive way to register domain names at cheap prices. It was an era when folks were jumping on the HTML band wagon. This is before the myspace kids, the youtube phenomenon and well, before google was as big as it is now. In that [...]