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My best intentions for the new year

• from a business perspective : getting the new Duoh! website online asap
  
  
• from my “free time” perspective : giving my blog a face lift ... and I don’t only mean design-wise here ;-)
  
  
• personally : give a donation to the people in Asia who need every help they can get. Geert and myself donated 137 Euros which is the amount that Unicef needs to install a water pomp to supply a whole community of drink water. I think it’s the least we can do. This all made me realize even more how good we have it here. So I plan to enjoy life a bit more and value the good things.

If you have a blog that contains publicity, maybe this is a good starting point. A nice initiative from Andy Budd is BlogAid.

Looking back on 2004 I realize that it has been a hell of a year. Since a lot of people in the blogosphere are making up their ‘list’ I thought I can do this as well.

After all that try-out cataloging software of last week, it’s time to take a break and be creative again. In other words, play-time for you, show-time for me! ;-)

It seems that we picked the right time to talk about Digital asset management this week ;-) Canto is giving away myCumulus 6 for FREE starting from tomorrow. MyCumulus 6 lets you organize your digital media efficiently. With myCumulus, you can search, archive, retrieve, send and even publish all your pictures as a web album in a flash! myCumulus is Canto’s “light” version of its professional DAM tool Cumulus Single User. The program is available on Mac and PC and if you want more then just the light version you can update to the single user version for $49.95 (49.95 Euro).

Digital asset management that is the “fancy” term of the topic from last Friday. Since then I’ve tested several of the applications that were mentioned in the comments. For those that haven’t been following along we we’re talking about archiving solutions for all the files that we have to deal with in our daily job. In our case that is a DVD full of all kind of files like fonts, icons, music, QuickTime files, eps, psd, pdf, Abobe Illustrator, InDesign, Quark etc.