As one of the more public Mac users, I have a lot of experience evangelizing for Apple and the Macintosh among my school community. I have come to realize that when I get into a conversation with a Windows user, they almost always end in one of three ways.
- I convince them and they agree with me that Macs have value and are worthwhile, and sometimes they even look into drinking the koolaid.
- They sort of grumble and walk away, realizing that I have beaten them, but refusing to admit it. This is generally the most common.
What is unfortunate is that the following response is becoming more and more common:
- “Macs are overpriced and not worth what Apple charges because I can get any software for free.”
This, of course, means that he pirates software. I hate pirates. They ruin everything for everyone else.
They make small developers struggle because people aren’t paying them, they make large companies (*cough* Adobe *cough*) keep their prices high, and they perpetuate DRM and license enforcement (*cough* Microsoft *cough* RIAA *cough* MPAA *cough*). Their stealing (yes, that’s right, folks. Software and media piracy is STEALING) ruins the experience for everyone else. (more…)
A great many years ago I started creating a Christmas DVD with slideshows and videos of the past year for my family. Creating the content and making it look good isn’t that big of a problem, since that’s what I got iLife (and FinalCut Express) for. However creating the labels and covers for the DVD has been a very different challenge.
Back in 2005 when I started with those DVDs in earnest, I was using LightScribe to print those DVD labels. I got a bit of software with my DVD-Writer that made creating the DVD labels bearable, however those labels didn’t have that much contrast and thus despite looking good, they weren’t right for me. In 2008 I purchased a Canon printer that was able to print directly on DVD and again I got a bit of software that made creating the labels ok, but amazingly it didn’t work all that well with the printer.
Creating DVD covers ended up as a task for Pages and a ruler to measure an existing cover to get things just about right. Those cover were only limited by my lack of creativity. For Christmas 2009 I ended up getting a copy of DiscLabel from SmileOnMyMac and let me tell you, creating beautiful and stunning DVD labels and covers was a breeze.
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A new episode of our new interview / chat style show ‘IMP Chats’, this time Stu Helm and Olly M from the IMP team talk to Oliver Breidenbach from Boinx Software about their great range of products and how they started off in the Mac development community.
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It’s here, IMP Live 12³, our longest show yet, we broadcasted and recorded for over 12 hours in the end, and we ended up with 12 episodes for you to enjoy!
Hour 10: Top of the Picks
0100-0200 GMT 13/12/2009
Host : Stu Helm
Panel : Will, Joel Drapper, Justin Byrne and Elaine Giles
We’d like to hear from you so send your email / audio clips to haveyoursay [at] impodcast [dot] tv and we’ll get them into the mix.
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