Yearly Archives: 2006

Site Server Update

By Eric Peacock | Published: December 6, 2006

I’ve migrated my hosting package to the new Grid Server at Media Temple over this last weekend. Had to tidy up a password change so this blog was offline for a few days, but everything went smoothly and I now have more server space and some additional features to use. I guess that means there [...]

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DiskWarrior 4.0 Now Available

By Eric Peacock | Published: December 6, 2006

For any Mac OS X user who ever needs to resurrect a damaged or corrupted hard disk the latest version of the venerable DiskWarrior is now available. Updates are about $50 if you already own it. I still occasionally have folks ask me about getting Norton Utilities or something like it for Mac OS X [...]

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Robert Altman Dies at 81

By Eric Peacock | Published: November 21, 2006

At least he didn’t take off early like Douglas Adams or Stanley Kubrick. I know a lot of folks don’t get into his work, maybe because it’s sometimes deeper and less easy than the straight-up entertainment we all get from movies. I don’t know, but I never had a real problem with Altman and I [...]

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The Zune Brand Fails To Impress

By Eric Peacock | Published: November 17, 2006

Reviewers, trolls, iPod fanboys and the ‘net in general have been talking about the new Microsoft Zune player all week – that is until the Sony Playstation 3 launch occurred. Back to the Zune though – the reviews have continued to be not entirely positive though the player is obviously not a complete piece of [...]

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The Microsoft Zune in the Media

By Eric Peacock | Published: November 14, 2006

I actually found this CNN video review of the Microsoft Zune entertaining: CNN Business: Microsoft’s Zune released. It’s a good reminder that even lucrative markets can be saturated with too many of the same products, and in the end the pre-existing users of the already popular iPod aren’t going to feel inclined to switch unless [...]

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Flow

By Eric Peacock | Published: November 10, 2006

37 Signals posts a nice rundown on flow, or “The Psychology of Optimal Experience”: All About Flow The ideas and thoughts presented are stimulating if you’re even a little self-aware of how you work throughout the day.

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Cinema 4D

By Eric Peacock | Published: November 3, 2006

For years I’ve worked with all sorts of low-end or high end 3D apps, though it’s often been limited to the low end for budgetary reasons. I once did a freelance project over a weekend where I had to learn an obscure (and discontinued) 3D app in order to create a flyby using the client [...]

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IE7 & Vista Looks Like More Hell for Web Development

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 25, 2006

I hate to be negative after MS decided to un-freeze IE and release version 7 with much belated standards support, but it appears that security issues with Windows are going to make future Vista/IE 7 web development really a pain-in-the-ass: Web developers: Microsoft has no idea what’s going on (37 Signals Blog) I hate to [...]

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