Archive for the 'Software' Category

A Photoshop filter for four bit images

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

I currently find myself redesigning an HD PVR service with a rather limited graphical specification for the on-screen display. The set-top box can only handle images with four bits per channel, giving a total of 4096 colors to work with. Not quite what one would expect from an HD set-top-box…
A company called Telegraphics have previously [...]

Mac app bundle

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Macheist has a limited time offer for a great bundle of 11 mac apps that I highly recommend. The bundle now includes CSSEdit that I have previously mentioned as the best tool for easy and elegant creation and editing of stylesheets.
It also includes AppZapper, and if you buy the bundle, you can use it to [...]

Working on two Macs

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

If you have a laptop and a desktop mac, Teleport is the tool to work on both at the same time.
This great tool makes your second mac work just almost like connecting a second display. When you move your mouse off the main screen where you set the other mac up to be, the control [...]

Fluxiom online digital asset manager

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

My company has been using a custom built web application for storing and sharing marketing material for a few years. The application was probably good at the time it was made, but as with so much other custom made software, it has never been updated. And like most other web based tools from a few [...]

DreamScene or a Living Nightmare

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Bill Gates held a keynote during CES where he gave another glimpse into new features of the upcoming Windows Vista Ultimate operating system. A single new feature, that is.
I would say the expectations should be quite high since this new feature is only available in the version named Ultimate. It is an ultimate disappointment to [...]

When to use iWeb?

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

UPDATE: iWeb has been updated and improved since this was written.
This post is off topic in at least two ways: first of all, this blog is mostly about professional tools, and secondly this site is not about the author’s personal life. No rule without exceptions..
I recently became a father, and that was indeed a great [...]

Make your Apple Mail look right in Outlook

Friday, October 13th, 2006

One of the many problems with Apple Mail is the way that it handles typography in rich text messages. You are able to set ‘Message Font’ under ‘Fonts & Colors’ in Preferences, but this is a little misleading. What you are actually setting is how you would like to view your own emails, not how [...]