Feb 14
9 comments 2005 at 04.07 am posted by Veerle
The day gets its name from a famous saint, but there are several stories of who he was. The most popular belief about St. Valentine is that he was a priest from Rome in the third century AD. Emperor Claudius II had banned marriage because he thought married men were bad soldiers.
Jan 28
17 comments 2005 at 04.31 am posted by Veerle
One of the daily things in my working routine is carefully planning projects. Planning is important, just to avoid unpleasant surprises, not only for yourself but also for the client. Mostly my week starts off pretty doable. A week is nicely filled with work but I always try to make sure there are some free gaps left. From experience I know that they will always get filled anyway.
Jan 06
156 comments 2005 at 03.55 am posted by Veerle
Officially a day late (better late then never) but I only discovered this idea just now and found it too cool to let go ;-) Sheryl of Paper Napkin, the creator of De-Lurking Day launched this idea on her blog yesterday and basically it means “A special day celebrating lurkers, and exhorting you to muster the strength and bravery to click on that comment button and end the deafening silence.”
Today it’s time to come out of the closet and express yourself in my comments ;-) I know you’re out there, so cross that boundary and make me feel proud and fill up those comments. Say it out loud: hi I am ... and I am a lurk-aholic ;-)
(small) UPDATE : a quick calculation, most days I have around 1.000 - 1.200 visitors ... in other words a LOT of you out there won’t confess their ‘problem’ :-P So a triple digit shouldn’t be too hard to achieve since this means that only about 10% must dare to express themselves :-)
Dec 29
6 comments 2004 at 09.49 am posted by Veerle
Well I've got to say, it wasn't easy to pick out 3 winners. Some of you helped me by giving me a hint that you aren't really into this kind of music but just wanted to let me know why you come visit my blog. Others gave some funny reason in an original way, like bici, but then he didn't answer my DJ question. Anyway these are the winners of the Defected CD:
Please send an e-mail to veerle@duoh.com with your home address so I can send it to you. Congratz!
Dec 17
1 comments 2004 at 07.39 am posted by Veerle
In our search to the perfect Digital Asset Management tool I recently also discovered a FileMaker Pro solution called Launch.it 2. So if you’re already working with Filemaker like I do you can manage your files with your existing FileMaker solution. Launch.it version 2 enables you to import file names, paths and icons into FileMaker. Additionally, any file can be opened out of FileMaker together with its parent application. It’s for Mac and Windows and more info about can be found here. A free try-out version is also available. A single user version has the very reasonable price of $29.
2 comments 2004 at 03.19 am posted by Veerle
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).
Dec 15
4 comments 2004 at 03.59 am posted by Veerle
Since the topic of this week seems to be cataloging, this new solution for photographers will fit in nicely. The fact that the solution is developed by two Belgian guys is a nice bonus, and no I am not getting paid to plug it here ;-)
Dec 13
23 comments 2004 at 07.15 am posted by Veerle
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.
Dec 10
24 comments 2004 at 02.21 am posted by Veerle
It is amazing how much data of work we collect. Clients send CD’s full of stuff that we need for a particular job etc. You know the drill, websites, brochures, logos etc, gigabytes that no longer fit on a CD. As a company we need to store all that in such a way that it is easy traceable and quickly found.
Nov 29
78 comments 2004 at 02.26 am posted by Veerle
I’ve been toying around with the idea of writing an article about this for a while now. You see, for me it’s important to have a cosy office. It affects my creative mind and can’t stand the thought of getting a design job done in an office that gives you a rather depressing or a cold unpleasant feeling.
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