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I got to see Corinne Bailey Rae at the Troubadour on monday. She has become one of my new favorites and since she rocked the show she is now on heavy rotation on my playlist. If you don’t know her yet, you will soon. Make sure to check her out.
Link: Buy from Amazon .com .uk .de .fr
Link: Buy from iTunes
This is a quick tutorial on how to have WordPress show a custom error page when there’s a database connection error. This tutorial covers WordPress 2.0.1.
I got a frantic call from my wife who’s visiting my sister in NY. It seems her iBook has that forever spinning wheel we’ve all had to face at some point or another. After talking to her, I deducted it was a corrupt image in her iPhoto library. Probably from her last import. It’s happened twice before. The problem is that although she’s a digital lifestyle junkie, she relies on me to fix any technical issues and I’m in LA. So I venture out online to see if I can tap into her computer remotely and was delighted to find out Timbuktu’s new Skype ‘tunnel’ feature. The New Timbuktu Pro uses Skype’s connection to pass through routers and firewalls and establish a direct connection. In the past, you could only connect remotely if you had a static IP address, something most people don’t have. Best of all, you can connect to a Mac or a PC.
So here’s a tutorial on how to connect remotely to another computer over the internet with Timbuktu and Skype.
The marketing wheel for Windows Vista is starting to roll. For the few of you who don’t know anything about it, Windows Vista will be the equivalent of what Mac OS X was to Mac OS 9. It will be huge upgrade from the inside out With lots of nee technologies at the core system level that are meant to make Windows more Pro-Creative friendly.
Just so you get an idea f the magnitude of Vista, a few months ago I got an email from a friend of mine who’s in the industry. A few things where left out per his request, but here’s most of it. He’s a Mac user.
Trusted designer / developer extended family -
The user experience tides are turning…
I just returned from a 3 day stint with Microsoft. Microsoft just held their soft launch for upcoming Vista related technologies and what a show/showing it was!
The only thing I can compare my feelings during / after the Mix event to, would be the first time I saw Shockwave debuted at WebInnovation back in 1995! This is a serious disruptive point in our lives - all very very exciting…
// Key takeaways which will impact all of us in the community include:
- Microsoft spent 3 million dollars on the event / 1 million a day
- Microsoft flipped the airfare / hotel bills for the top Flash designer and developer community within the US / EU (+20 or so folk) to attend the event
- Adobe really has it’s work cut out for them to keep Flash/Flex competitive, Microsoft’s technology appears to be superior
- Atlas is quite robust and does everything and more Flex can dish out…
- Microsoft stated they will have 1 billion (total) devices (including mobile) WPF - WPF/E enabled in 2 years time; 600 million will be WPF (Full) enabled with GPU capabilities
- Microsoft will not ship WPF - WPF/E unless the Mac client is ready to go simultaneously
- Microsoft will have CTP ready by end of Q2 ‘06
- CTP estimated size for WPF 1.2 megs, but will grow larger with video / 3D support
- Microsoft committed to a Linux port of WPF/E and will have it ready by Q2 ‘07 (3rd parties to develop)
- Microsoft WPF (Full) - very impressive, both technologically and aesthetically; BBC Demo
- Microsoft publicly stated IE will have core engine support for SVG in IE7.x (most likely 7.2)
(power point presentation); they are currently working with Firefox, and others to ensure version / profile rolling compatibility
- Good lecture on user experience design for the Ten Foot UI (power point presentation)
- Expression tools not quite there yet, but Microsoft has finally done a good job in getting them usable for the creative pro market
Link: seewindowsvista.com
Link: Windows Vista on Flickr
Link: Visual Tour: 20 Things You Won’t Like About Windows Vista
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