I recently created a client website that needed an easy to use e-commerce solution for selling books, CDs and digital downloads of documents and audio files. On the client’s old website, she was just selling her book and CDs using a very simple PayPal link for processing and payment. It worked, but wasn’t very attractive and offered [...]
Filed under: Computers, Graphic Design, Online Marketing on March 23rd, 2011 | 11 Comments »
By Chris Blair
There’s no denying that Facebook and Twitter are both hot topics right now. We get a half-dozen emails each week advertising seminars, podcasts or webinars proclaiming they can teach us to turn tweets into dollars or status updates into customers.
Is social media really that powerful? Is it really a ground-breaking way to reach [...]
Filed under: Computers, Marketing, Online Marketing, Thoughts & Musings on October 16th, 2010 | No Comments »
By Chris Blair
For our first 11 years in business, we used direct attached storage for reading and writing files on our computer systems. But in early 2008, we switched to an enterprise level, network attached system (NAS) for project and media files. The reasons for the switch were varied, but the biggest was to improve productivity and efficiency.
With direct storage, [...]
Filed under: Computers, Production Techniques on August 22nd, 2010 | No Comments »
By Chris Blair
While I’m on the subject of media players. I was recently reintroduced to RealPlayer’s basic media player and I was blown away by how much it’s improved since the last time I used it. RealPlayer was initially a leader in online video streaming and it’s player was pretty much standard fare on Windows [...]
Filed under: Computers, Web Video on May 26th, 2010 | No Comments »
By Chris Blair
The default media player in Windows Vista and Windows XP cannot play a lot of popular file types, such as Quicktime and the now ubiquitous H.264/mp4 format. But now there’s a simple, safe plugin that gives Windows Media Player the ability to play both. The plugin is from a company called Medialooks and [...]
Filed under: Computers, Web Video on May 26th, 2010 | 2 Comments »