July 23, 2008 • 10:33 am 0
Via Gizmodo and AppleInsider
I honestly don’t know what to think of it. Seeing it’s a touch screen and I HATE fingerprints on my screen so I’m not really looking forward to this if indeed it was even true. I want a lighter Macbook , one with a 12-inch screen.
Filed under: Geekdom, Technology , apple, design, innovation, ipod, macbook, october, Rumors, steve jobs, touch
July 13, 2008 • 2:03 pm 0
Filed under: Geekdom, Humor, Photoshop, Technology , clone tools, iran, missile launch, Photoshop, Tutorials
February 12, 2008 • 9:36 am 0
Question: Isn’t standard that a web designer/web developer is supposed to know how to optimize web images? Specifically when to use GIF and JPEG?
I got a little bit “high blood” ba. This morning I asked our online job posting company if we could replace the HTML template we’ve had for our postings since it was really old. I’ve been trying to figure it out with their online CMS and discovered it cannot be done but they could customize one HTML template for us for a ridiculous price of a 5-10 pages static website. I wanted to send a template that we designed which is not an option according to them. We are a web design company and a number of our products are templates, I find it odd to pay for something we do everyday. Second, I’m not sure if they’re templates would be up to our standards. Last, the price is just ridiculous. In fairness to them they have given us great results with their service for the last five years and they are a business entity so they have to make a profit. It just happened that I would never pay that price for one HTML template since I have a clear knowledge of web design related prices here and in the U.S.
I asked anyway to have our logo replaced with the uniform format we have with our email footers. I sent our account executive the logo and he replied within 30 minutes that the new logo was uploaded. Our AE provided a link and when I saw it I was disappointed because it was a very blurry JPEG logo. I have already sent an optimized GIF version. I used the GIF format since our logo only used two web safe colors, a practice that is known to every living web developer on earth. Hayyy, so I edited the header and copied the same exact size that was on the live website and re-sent a crisp GIF file. I clearly instructed to upload the same file and not change anything. Our very efficient AE immediately sent the new header to their IT group. Only when I checked the live site again to see our logo more blurry and still in JPEG! Frustrated, I talked to our AE over the phone:
“Hi ______. Yeah, about our logo, thanks for uploading it. But I have one little itty bitty request can you please inform your IT people there to upload the EXACT file I sent because the logo right now is worst than before. It’s optimized too much. I don’t mean to be obsessive compulsive about minute little details but you see we are a web design company, although it may not be our website, it can reflect on us if we don’t even know how to optimize our web images. So please inform your IT team to upload the same exact file I sent over.”
I checked the site after a few minutes they finally got it right. Maybe I’m being too anal about it. Our HR Consultant was laughing and I was laughing at myself too for going gaga over a logo. Eh kasi naman no ang pangit talaga ng pagka-optimize masyadong tinipid sa bandwith. LOL. Come to think of it, the GIF file I sent has a smaller file size. It’s quite ironic for a website that built their business on hiring the right people to have to explain to their web development staff why the logo must be in GIF format. *sigh*.
Edit: I checked the live site again. Ugh. Hindi pa pala ayos as I initally thought it was. Ambot.
Filed under: Geekdom, Graphic Design, Technology , ka-O-C-han, web design
January 27, 2008 • 2:58 am 0
The first prototype was finished last week, this is one of the first bags 
. Watch out for them on February 2008 @ desmendoza.com
Filed under: Business, Fashion, Technology , 28, 29, 30, 31, 38
