Archive for June, 2009

We’re recovering nicely…

0James22nd Jun 2009General

Janet, Kian and I had one heck of a busy week, with out-of-town relatives visiting, my nephew’s birthday, Father’s Day, job interviews and a host of items on our “to do” list. We’re pretty much spent any spare minute sleeping.

Zzzzzzzz!

Zzzzzzzz!


We’re getting back up to speed this week – hopefully we’ll have more interesting news to share soon.

Musical mashup of YouTube videos

0James13th Jun 2009Jim's Stuff

InBflat - a musical/video mashup

InBflat - a musical/video mashup


A colleague came across this site and I thought it was too cool not to share. It’s called InBFlat, and it’s a mashup of YouTube videos containing various musical instruments and spoken word. You play some or all of the videos, in any order to create a pretty cool musical composition. Check it out.

Attention potential clients: don’t do this!

0James5th Jun 2009Jim's Stuff, , ,

As a designer, one of the most annoying things I hear from potential clients is the rather insulting excuses and cons when it comes to negotiating prices. Rather than explain it all, watch this video. This is literally what I hear from some people. Please, don’t be these people.

My first article for The Apple Blog

0James3rd Jun 2009Jim's Stuff

aps_cooliris-logoiPhoto is perfectly capable of displaying your photos as a slideshow or one at a time. But you’re limited to a flat display that doesn’t exactly “wow” anyone.

With one simple download, you can view your iPhoto collection on a visually stunning 3D wall, right in your web browser.

In my review at The Apple Blog, I show you how you can use the Cooliris plugin for Safari or Firefox (Windows or Mac) to view images contained in your iPhoto library, or anywhere else on your computer.

Funny, I don’t FEEL dead…

0James1st Jun 2009Jim's Stuff

I was giving Microsoft’s new search engine, bing, a try this afternoon and decided to search for my name to see what would come up.

This headstone must have cost a fortune!

This headstone must have cost a fortune!


The fourth image in the list was a photo of me from the About page on my main site. Unfortunately, I was stunned when I looked at the second image in the list to find out that I died at the age of 54 in 1880. I hope I had a nice funeral. If anyone attended, please let me know how it went.