• It’s The Little Things (Echo)

    In the replies to last week’s Saturday Slant Jewdez mentioned the fact that, in the screen shot of My Current Desktop, my taskbar replacement is shown to have a minimized browser parked on Jewdez’s blog. First, I wasn’t aware until I posted that particular desktop that I was getting any interest in the My Current…

  • MP3s Here, MP3s There, MP3s Everywhere!

    I discovered today that I have over 5,000 MP3s–27 Gigabytes!–spread across three harddrives. Enough is enough. I’m positive that a fair portion of them are duplicates. But how am I to tell without crawling them one at a time? Afterall, many are named with the artist first while others are named with the album or…

  • Quark a no-show at HOW?

    I’m writing this from the 2003 HOW Design Conference in New Orleans and I see Adobe. There’s Apple. Pantone’s around. A dozen paper vendors are here. Over there’s Hewlett-Packard. MyFonts.com is here as well. Funny, I don’t see Quark. As a matter of fact, Quark isn’t here. One of the biggest events of the year…

  • Still Laughing At Quark

    I’m still laughing at Quark 6. I’ve seen it. I’ve played with it. It looks nice Cocoa-ized (meaning it runs under, and looks like, a native Mac OS X environment), but it’s the same damn piece of crap we’ve been forced to use for thirteen years. The UI (user interface) is the same clunky, out-of-date,…

  • Meet Me: How Conference

    2003 HOW Design Conference – June 5-8 Anyone else going? If so, let’s meet up.

  • Quark 6–PR-Speak to English

    Translation of Selected Portions of Last Week’s “QuarkXPress 6 Feature Overview” Announcement from PR-Speak to English