Category Archives: Business

SEO, the new messy misconception

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 13, 2009

Derek Powazek has crafted the perfect post about SEO or Search Engine Optimization and the whole huge trend that surrounds it. Seriously, this is important. If you are a client with a web site or just someone who is interested in to being a good web citizen read this.

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Adobe Creative Suite 4: A Sinking Feeling

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 12, 2009

Or, How I become afraid of future software releases from Adobe. I recently took a trial spin of Adobe’s CS4 suite and it’s looking like some of my favorite tools are in jeopardy of becoming less polished and annoying. As nice as every Creative Suite upgrade can be, the quality has dropped off of each [...]

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Windows Usability According To Bill Gates (circa 2003)

By Eric Peacock | Published: June 25, 2008

The Seattle PI has a great reprint of one of Bill Gates Windows usability critiques aimed at his employees (via Daring Fireball). This was made available thanks to the antitrust hearings years ago, so it’s the real deal. It’s an interesting read — if you have ever been frustrated by downloading a Windows patch or [...]

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Snow Leopard aka Mac OS X 10.6

By Eric Peacock | Published: June 9, 2008

Though the iPhone 3G is going to be the buzz for a while, Apple’s other WWDC announcement of pausing to do a proper optimization of OS X is great news as well. First, from what I can see this wasn’t being demanded from users and developers, however all software benefits from some cleanup and optimization. [...]

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Zune Sells 2 Million Players Since 2006

By Eric Peacock | Published: May 9, 2008

Here’s the article over at Electronisa. Like one commenter also said, I’ve yet to see anyone with a Zune and nobody I know has bought one. I live in Seattle and all my Microsoft-employed friends got free Xbox 360s when those shipped, but none of them have a Zune.

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Free Your Mind?

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 19, 2008

Author Steven Poole on the results of his making a book freely available. There does exist a proposal that purports to be of type a). I’ll call it, for short, “the Slashdot argument”. It says that books, music, films, software and so on ought to be freely distributed to anyone who wants them, simply because [...]

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Microsoft Bids on Yahoo

By Eric Peacock | Published: February 1, 2008

Link to press release. Not sure I like the thought of Flickr becoming integrated with Live. If this happens there is a good chance Flickr will go down the toilet. Let’s hope not.

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Is Niggy Tardust Worth $5?

By Eric Peacock | Published: January 22, 2008

Yes. I paid the $5, downloaded the FLAC file option and had never heard the album till after the transaction. I’d only heard a track from Saul on a Ninja Tune compilation and seen one of his videos prior. I was intrigued and $5 is small change compared to most online or offline music purchases. [...]

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