First Impressions: Picasa for Mac
January 5, 2009 by David Alison
Filed under Parallel Desktops
When I switched from Windows to Mac nearly a year ago the only thing that I really missed from Windows was Picasa, Google’s free photo management software. I’ve struggled getting iPhoto to work the way I wanted it to. I had used it for years and since I take a LOT of digital photos I have a pretty extensive photo library for a non-professional (25K photos, 55GB of disk space that span the past 8 years). Today Google released the beta version of Picasa for Mac and I immediately set about installing it and checking it out.
Marketing Monday:planning your show strategy
January 5, 2009 by TheArtistsCenter
Filed under ArtWorks, Front Page
Now is the time to start thinking about your next seasons shows. It is also a time to start taking action to move away from what I call “random acts of buying” and start moving into a position that starts to reduce the random nature of your sales cycle.
How to start your 2009 season ahead of your competition
December 16, 2008 by TheArtistsCenter
Filed under ArtWorks
This time of year is the best time to begin focusing on how you want your business to be next year, what you want to have happened at year’s end, what you want to achieve with your art by the end of 2009, what you want for income, your show strategy, etc. There are several key areas to focus on as you proceed, they include:
Mastering Twitter with TweetDeck
December 5, 2008 by David Alison
Filed under Parallel Desktops
I’ll be the first to admit that I didn’t "get" Twitter. When I first heard about it and saw that "tweets" were 140 character micro-blog posts that contained such mindless drivel as "Heading out to work" or "Getting a haircut" I dismissed it as pointless.
RegistryScan.cc tells my Mac I have a Windows Malware infection
November 19, 2008 by David Alison
Filed under Parallel Desktops
I was happily working along this afternoon when suddenly I received a Skype pop-up text message. I rarely use Skype for text messaging, sticking with Adium for that. It’s usually some Skype SPAM asking me to come to some lonely woman’s web page to see pictures of her. This time the message looked pretty ominous:
Obviously this is just a SPAM attempt to get someone to jump over to a web site. Kind of tough for my Mac running Leopard to get a Registry hack installed. At the bottom of the message was a link to go to the offending site:
Getting the most out of Spaces on a dual monitor Mac Pro
November 14, 2008 by David Alison
Filed under Parallel Desktops
Ever since I switched from Windows to Mac over 9 months ago I’ve been obsessed with making myself as productive as possible in OS X. Without question one of my favorite features is Spaces, the multi-desktop feature for Leopard. Here is how I’ve set up my environment to make the most out of it.
iShowU HD - capture that video easily
November 10, 2008 by David Alison
Filed under Parallel Desktops
Have you ever wanted to capture video that you see online? Say for example you want to capture a highlight play on NFL.COM—which has some very high quality video clips online—integrating the results into your own video. I was looking for just such a solution the other day and found iShowU HD, a nice little application that can capture virtually any video you can view on your Mac, including Flash based videos from YouTube, etc.
