• Quark Chief’s Nuts Yield Poor Return

    Macworld UK–Quark chief’s nuts yield poor return “ Quark CEO Fred Ebrahimi’s family nut holdings dropped in value yesterday after sales slipped. Ebrahimi and family holds 12 per cent of the shares in Macadamia Orchards–Hawaii’s biggest macadamia nuts grower. Macadamia Orchards announced a five per cent drop in its nuts revenues for its third quarter…

  • Life Cycle of DTP

    PageMaker, a true piece of history, birthed the Desktop Publishing Revolution, leading it through its infancy. Quark was the adolesence of the burgeoning Desktop Publishing industry, rebellious and impetuous. InDesign is the Publishing and Layout industry all grown up, mature, sophisticated, confidant, freeing.

  • Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo

    Once again, be careful what you blog. The most innocuous thing may get you fired, just like Michael Hanscom of Seattle, WA, recently terminated by Microsoft for mentioning that MSCopy (the Microsoft in-house print shop) was located in the same building as Shipping & Receiving. Before condemning Microsoft for being an evil, paranoid ogre, you…

  • Quark 7 and 8 Announced

    Fred Ebrahimi, CEO of Quark: “ We’ve just announced QuarkXPress 7 will ship on November 1st, and XPress 8 will ship on December 20th. After careful consideration we came to this conclusion: What the hell? It’s not like we actually change the software between versions anyway. Hence our release cycle will be sped up tremendously…

  • Server Issues Resolved

    I’ve worked out and resolved the MySQL server issue that kept my blog sedantary throughout this past weekend. كازينو كروز Give me a little time and I’ll have responded to everyone’s comments and updated the Saturday Slant page to tie into the below post. In the meantime, I invite you to check out Jennifer’s really…

  • I Shout “Quark Sucks!” Loudest

    If you go to Google.com and type in “quark sucks” (with or without the quotes), my site–specifically some op/ed dialogues I started–is the top two listings. This makes me very proud. It’s almost as if my voice shouting “Quark sucks!” is the loudest–at least on Google. Google Search: quark sucks