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Microsoft, Mac, Computer Troubles and Advertising

Famous blog­ger Robert Scoble has pub­lished a very inter­est­ing post today about Apple’s adver­tis­ing and brand promise fol­low­ing his expe­ri­ence upgrad­ing his Mac com­puter with Apple’s lat­est updates. He is mak­ing the point that Apple claims the Apple expe­ri­ence is bet­ter, that Apple builds bet­ter qual­ity com­put­ers, var­i­ous hard­ware and soft­ware than its com­peti­tors. So when he reported…

Adobe CS3, A Very Different Experience On My New Computer

Since I got my new com­puter, I’ve been busy installing soft­ware, installing Office, email and other basic appli­ca­tions as well as set­ting my new Vista envi­ron­ment and get­ting famil­iar with it. I’ll post later about my impres­sions on Vista. But Saturday, I finally installed Adobe Design Premium CS3 on the new machine. All I can say is wow! I liked…

Got a New Computer!

…and it’s a screamer! I can’t believe I lived with my other one for this long. The new one is so much faster it’s not even funny. I’ll be keep­ing the old one as a backup so I got a Belkin swicth to use the same key­board, mouse and mon­i­tor with both and plugged them into a router. That way I’ll always have…

Testing Windows Live Writer (2nd try)

I just installed and am now test­ing a nifty lit­tle app called Windows Live Writer which is used to write to your blog through XML-​RPC from your com­puter with­out the need to log into your blog’s admin area. Among the ben­e­fits of using such an app, you can save post drafts locally and have access to more sophisticated…

Host Switching Completed, Testing Blog

I com­pleted the host switch­ing I men­tioned in my last post some­time last week and this is my first blog post since then. I’m very happy with my new host so far and all the errors with the blog I was get­ting have now stopped. I’m now test­ing the post­ing, ping­ing and I am also test­ing a new app called…