Creo is back in business!

by admin on July 2, 2009

Shines your hair like an… um… laser. Yeah, that’s it, like a laser.

Trademark infringement!! Trademark infringement!!

Here’s an original creo logo from 1999…

creo-logo

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Build Iphone Apps in Minutes! Just Minutes!

by admin on July 1, 2009

Create iPhone Apps in Minutes.

Yah, I don’t know about the level of sophistication that can be built into an app using this SDK, but on the other hand, it could be a fun little toy to play with.

I mean, if it guaranteed that Java would compile properly, then woo-who, let’s port the Prinergy workshop to the iphone.

There are a few readers who occasionally peruse this blog who have a passing familiarity with developing software on Apple hardware. I await their pronouncements in the comments section with bated breath.

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Quebecor: You are not a carmaker, so screw you

June 30, 2009

Owwww! I hit my head with the palm of my hand so hard that I think I have a concussion!
The US government is objecting to the terms of the Quebecor bailout.Because the IRS is owed $10 million and the EPA is owed $150 million, it’s snarled up in the courts again.
Oh wait, let’s add some [...]

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The Summer Breaks Upon Us…

June 29, 2009

This weekend I spent time with the family up at Cultus Lake, at group camping site booked by our children’ elementary school.
Great camping site. Trees surrounding a meadow that borders the beach that borders the lake. Private flush toilets with showers. Covered picnic area with walls on three sides. It’s such a great camping site [...]

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Agfa Apogee vs. Kodak’s Prinergy

June 25, 2009

There’s a poll on printplanet: Hurry, hurry and register your vote on which workflow you think is better!! Apogee vs. Prinergy.
Laurens, I know you’re a B4print guy, so I’ll register your vote for you :->

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The Knives are out for Kodak

June 24, 2009

The big business news today is that Warren Buffet says the US economy is still in a shambles with with no sign of recovery yet.
So on a hunch, I scooted over to Yahoo’s business pages and checked the latest headlines on Kodak. The Financial Times is bringing out the hatchet and is looking for Perez’s [...]

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Tutorials for Designing in Print

June 23, 2009

Secretly, in the backroom of nearly every of every print shop, there is a prepress specialist who bitches about the lack of expertise shown by most graphic artists/desktop publishers these days.
Actually, prepress specialists have been bitching about graphic artists for decades, so I shouldn’t pretend this is a new thing.
Fact of the matter, most of [...]

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Deconstructing the RR Donnelly - Quebecor Merger Attempt

June 18, 2009

In case you didn’t catch it, the Quebecor board of directors said no to RR Donnelly $1.8 billion of cash, as reported in foliomag.com. PrintCEO also reports the story, along with useful comments at the bottom. All this  happened about 8 days ago, which is how long I have been scratching my head.
So Quebecor, soon [...]

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Check the soles of your feet: #iranelection on Twitter

June 17, 2009

If  you have been in a cave somewhere for the last couple of days, you should go check your twitter account and hit on #iranelection. It really is something.
As for this posting, I leave you an excerpt of an account of one night by Reza Baraheni, a former professor of English at Tehran university. He [...]

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