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Posts Tagged ‘Software’

What Used to be Hard, Becomes Easy

One thing we talk a lot about is how important it is, for costs, to stick to problems which have already been solved. Get fancy and do something new, and your costs have rocketed away. A developer has just done a nice little piece on spellchecking. In 1984 it was ferociously hard. In fact, if you wanted a decent spellchecker… continue reading

Why We Hate American Software Companies (Well, Adobe)

Some American software companies are increasingly ripping-off European customers. It’s perfectly possible for a European to pay twice as much for a software download from the same server as an American would be using. Adobe are particularly bad. Perhaps Europeans should start charging more to Americans in order to balance it out?

Producing Instructional ScreenCasts

Sometimes there’s a need to produce training videos which show how you carry out a certain piece of work.  Simply explaining a technique isn’t always possible in words.  You need to show people how it’s done. Alternatively you may wish to demo your lovely piece of software. And for that, there’s a rather wonderful piece of software called CamStudio.  Even… continue reading

Attention WordPress Hackers! At Last, a GPL Theme Worth Playing With…

We finally built GPL theme for hosted versions of WordPress! And very pretty it is too… We’ve been writing custom themes for clients for quite some time now, and felt it was time to give a little something back to the WordPress community. So we did a fully GPL theme, complete with a Fireworks png, all sliced up and ready… continue reading