Billy Fire LLC – design, marketing and technical commentary
One of my children bought an Asus EEE 900A. Its a very attractive little machine. 9 inch screen that is surprisingly easy to view, a small but ergonomic keyboard, and, because this device uses solid state storage, it is silent and has excellent battery life. The downside, the disk drive is only 4 Gb. Before [...]
Tue, October 13 2009 » Gadgets, Marketing, Office productivity, Software, Technical » No Comments
I often wondered why all the new flat screen LCD and plasma screens were 16:9 ratio. This is a nice ratio but only the equivalent of cinema widescreen (1.85 to 1 in the USA and 1.66 to 1 in Europe). I love the Panavision or Cinemascope ratio (2.35 to 1) because this is how we [...]
Thu, June 11 2009 » Advertising, Technical, Video » No Comments
I just set up an account with BudURL. Like some similar services it takes a long URL and shortens it. The twist with BudURL is that is includes analytics behind each link that you create. So, for example, you could include a BudURL link in a Twitter Tweet and then see analytics on any clicks [...]
Sat, January 17 2009 » Marketing, Software, Technical » No Comments
Its nearly Christmas and last night I created my Christmas card address labels, a task I do not overly like. I am a big fan of OpenOffice, it does everything that I need, everything that MS Office does that is of any importance and sometimes more, for example you have a huge amount of flexibility [...]
Wed, December 3 2008 » Office productivity, Software, Technical » No Comments
I just created a video of a presentation I made recently. It covers podcasting 101, including how to subscribe to a podcast, and how to create you own podcast, including microphone selection and software. The podcasting presentation can be found here.
Thu, September 25 2008 » Marketing, Technical » No Comments
Ikonoskop is an innovative manufacturer of movie cameras based in my favorite city, Stockholm, Sweden. A few years ago they created a super 16mm film camera called the A-cam SP-16. The camera was designed to be inexpensive and light. It was able to achieve this by using 100ft spools of 16 mm film (rather than [...]
Wed, September 10 2008 » Gadgets, Technical, Video » No Comments
Most of my browsing is done using Firefox. Apart from the obvious advantage that it is not a Microsoft product, I very much like the ability to easily add plugins. I also like the tabs (although, of course, Explorer 7 has tabs.) One thing I really like about Explorer 7 though, is the way you [...]
Fri, August 8 2008 » Marketing, Technical » No Comments
I just bought the full version of Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Edition and I can confirm that, just like trial version mentioned previously, it seems to be able to use the AVCHD files from my Canon HG10 camcorder. I purchased it from Amazon, opting for the CDs and box version, rather than the download, and [...]
Thu, July 31 2008 » Gadgets, Technical » No Comments
One of the strongest features of WordPress is that care that has been taken to make upgrading to a new version as easy as possible. I have never had anything but the most minor problems, compared to some CMS software that I tried that failed miserably and I had to abandon. This time I used [...]
Tue, July 15 2008 » Marketing, Technical » No Comments
A client of mine has started a series of podcasts. Thus far I have recorded the podcasts using the Samson C01U USB Studio Condenser Microphone discussed in a previous blog posting. We had always planned that my client would ultimately be able to create his own podcasts and he asked me to get him a [...]
Thu, June 19 2008 » Gadgets, Marketing, Technical » No Comments
