Category Archives: Business

Visual FX Shops Overwhelmed

By Eric Peacock | Published: May 31, 2007

Variety: Blockbusters take toll on f/x shopsMike over at hdforindies also backs this up.I hadn’t heard this till now – and I’m sort of a mid-range VFX guy a lot of the time.Actually, when I think about it the same expectations versus cost and time are a problem for my smaller projects as well. I’m [...]

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A List Apart 2007 Web Design Survey

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 24, 2007

The huge black hole that surrounds the facts about web professionals has led A List Apart to conduct a survey. If you do professional web work you should take it.

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Seth Godin on Meetings

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 19, 2007

Worth a look: Meetings

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The XBox 360 Profitability Debate Explained

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 19, 2007

For anyone I’ve talked to that thought I was completely nuts about the long-term profitability of the XBox and it’s component divisions, read this: MSFT, XBox 360 and Japan Via Daring Fireball.

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LogoMaid Rips Off SimpleBits Logo

By Eric Peacock | Published: March 22, 2007

Daring Fireball covers it well. Intellectual property thieves have much in common with other vermin, such as cockroaches and rodents: they don’t like the light. Expose them and they hide. The last thing a site like LogoMaid wants is a high-PageRank site — like, oh, say, this one — spreading the word that they peddle [...]

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Office For Mac – A Dark History

By Eric Peacock | Published: March 6, 2007

More revealing emails are getting pushed around the blogosphere, this time revealing that Microsoft contemplated killing Office for Mac back in 1997, supposedly to hurt Apple. It seems that the Mac community is pushing “I told you so!” and reminding everyone that Microsoft is a dangerous monopoly. Maybe so. However, Daring Fireball quotes Paul Thurrott [...]

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The Tools I Use

By Eric Peacock | Published: January 25, 2007

Inspired by a post on the 37 Signals blog I’m going to detail the core tools I use in this post and hopefully update it from time to time. Just for fun and all that… Video & Motion Graphics: Non-linear editor: Final Cut Pro 5.x Titler: Livetype Special Effects: Adobe After Effects 7.x, Motion 2.x [...]

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Bad News from Microsoft for HTML Emails

By Eric Peacock | Published: January 12, 2007

As if HTML in email wasn’t already a huge headache compared to doing it for the browser, along comes a revision to Microsoft Office (specifically Outlook 2007) that will probably piss off even more web developers than IE 6 does. Read about it here: Microsoft takes email design back 5 years Campaign Monitor is a [...]

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