Why Isn’t Adobe Flash on the iPhone, iPod, iPad?

Jan 29, 2010 | 53 Comments

Flash devours resources on OS X, hasn’t been re-engineered for efficiency with mobile processors, and is generally un-fucking-stable. The #1 reason I finally upgraded to Snow Leopard was so that I could finally sandbox that POS Flash plugin to keep it from crashing my entire browser when it decided it wanted to take its crap-coated [...]

How to Use Icon Generator

Jan 15, 2010 | No Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Marques has now done several screencasts for us, all of which have been fantastic! This time, he’s going to show you how to make use of a free Adobe Air app. Icon Generator allows you to generate a CS3 or Web [...]

Free Photoshop Online

Jan 11, 2010 | One Comment

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Sometimes, people want to make use of features of Photoshop, but they don’t have the need (or resources) to buy the complete program. Adobe allows you to sign in on the website (or join for free) and use certain elements of [...]

Living Life to the Fullest

Dec 15, 2009 | One Comment

A few moments ago, I read a tweet by my friend Chris Brogan. It said simply: Know what kills you in life? Not living.. Holy wow… Chris is right. Sure you’ll continue to breathe if you don’t go out and embrace every moment of life. But is that really living? I don’t think it is, [...]

Foxit Screencast

Nov 5, 2009 | 2 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I recently asked all of you to submit your screencasts to me for review. The best of the best will be chosen to be featured here, in my various channels and outlets. This provides content of a different perspective for our [...]

What’s Better Than Microsoft PowerPoint?

Jun 11, 2009 | 6 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Did you ever know how most presentations suck? It’s bad enough that people doing them tend to suck, as well. It’s not their fault, though. Most of the presentation software is just not that good. A good presentation shows pictures, and [...]

I Hate Adobe Flash!!!!!!!!!!

Apr 23, 2009 | 104 Comments

99.9% of Safari crashes are caused by Adobe’s Flash. It’s not Safari, gang – it’s Flash, pure and simple. I’ve done everything to attempt to rectify the problem, and it’s not like I can just dump Flash and move on with my life. Hell, I just reinstalled Mac OS X from scratch (after installing the [...]

How to Merge PDF Files for Free

Feb 6, 2009 | 31 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Yes, you likely have PDFs scattered across your hard drive. What do you do when you want to merge one PDF with another? Unless you buy expensive software, it’s impossible – unless you use MergePDF. This service enables you to combine [...]

How to Create a Digital Photo Mask with Ease

Jan 23, 2009 | No Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed You know I’m a software addict. I like all kinds of software, and I especially love software that does what it needs to do VERY well – and if it’s available on both Mac OS X and Windows. I believe I [...]

Do you Want to Create PDFs from Firefox for Free?

Jul 7, 2008 | 16 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Just today, the PDF became an official ISO standard. You’ll see PDFs show up in a lot more places. It will be the document format to beat, basically. I happen to have stumbled across an invitation-only Beta earlier for a new [...]

PDF is an ISO Standard

Jul 2, 2008 | 12 Comments

I was up and about at 5am today (don’t ask), and I just so happened to catch a short email in my inbox: The Portable Document Format (PDF), undeniably one of the most commonly used formats for electronic documents, is now accessible as an ISO International Standard – ISO 32000-1. This move follows a decision [...]

Does Flash Encoding Slow Down the Computer?

May 18, 2008 | 101 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Dimitri just sent me an email, saying that he’s really happy we inspired him to live stream. However, he’s having an issue that he isn’t sure what to do to fix it. For some reason, my CPU load keeps going to [...]

Is the Adobe Media Player any Good?

Apr 9, 2008 | 45 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed For years I have been suggesting that Adobe would totally kill were it to develop a desktop media player… largely because everyone seems to have Adobe Flash installed already. Adobe has officially released a media player at long last! It’s not [...]

Do you Have any Photoshop Tips for Beginners?

Apr 3, 2008 | 44 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Recently, Mushir sent in his list of favorite foods from India. Instead of food, he’s passing on his top tips for people who are just beginning to learn how to use Photoshop. Check it out! When using Photoshop for the first [...]

Tips for Using Adobe Flash

Mar 7, 2008 | 5 Comments

Mushir sent in some excellent tips recently to help guide you through using Adobe Flash. Learn the basics! If you learn the basics in Flash you will be able to finish stuff so much more faster. Try out all the tools and learn what they do. You may find a tool you never have used, [...]