Back in April, when Adobe Pho­to­shop CS6 Beta was released, the com­pany dropped offi­cial sup­port for Win­dows Vista, but it con­tin­ued sup­port­ing Win­dows 7 and XP users. A cou­ple of months later, Adobe gave an “advanced warn­ing” that 3D fea­ture upgrades in Pho­to­shop CS6 would no longer be sup­ported with Win­dows XP. Addi­tion­ally, Pho­to­shop CS6 (13.0) will be the last major ver­sion of Pho­to­shop to sup­port Win­dows XP. Even though it is ancient, Win­dows XP is still the best sell­ing Microsoft OS, and makes up nearly 40% of their mar­ket share (after hav­ing peaked at 76.1% in Jan­u­ary 2007), it is some­what expected that Adobe’s soft­ware devel­op­ers now insist on the lat­est upgraded ver­sions of Win­dows OS (Win­dows 7 and 8) to run their applications. This is what Adobe had to say: Pho­to­shop CS6 already demon­strates that rely­ing on a mod­ern oper­at­ing sys­tem, graph­ics cards/GPUs and graph­ics dri­vers can lead to sub­stan­tial improve­ments in 3D, Blur Gallery and Light­ing Effect fea­tures not avail­able to Win­dows XP cus­tomers. The team hopes that by pro­vid­ing this infor­ma­tion early it will help you under­stand our cur­rent deci­sions around oper­at­ing sys­tem sup­port and where we we’re headed with future releases of Photoshop. We encour­age all cus­tomers who are cur­rently using the 3D fea­tures in Pho­to­shop CS6 Extended to begin upgrad­ing their video card/hardware now so they can fully take advan­tage of future Pho­to­shop inno­va­tions as soon as they are available. Cre­ative Cloud mem­bers will also be required to update their vRAM to at least 512 MB in order to access 3D fea­tures found in Pho­to­shop CS6 Extended.  If they don’t update, they’ll see the fol­low­ing dia­log box: It is a well-known fact that there are impor­tant per­for­mance gains by upgrad­ing Pho­to­shop 32-bit to the 64-bit ver­sion, espe­cially when work­ing with very large or han­dling mul­ti­ple images at a time. But we are get­ting increas­ingly con­cerned about Adobe’s respect and ded­i­ca­tion to its consumers. We obvi­ously under­stand that like any other cor­po­ra­tion Adobe is try­ing to con­tin­u­ally increase sales and gen­er­ate prof­its. How­ever, there are too many changes hap­pen­ing too often, mak­ing it harder for users to keep up with the company’s rapidly chang­ing trends. We won­der how often they dis­cuss how costly and incon­ve­nient the con­stant changes are for users. Pho­tog­ra­phers, video edi­tors, illus­tra­tors, and 3D Design­ers using older sys­tems may not be able to access all of the content-aware tools, and 3D cre­ation tools. In a per­fect world you could say “well, they sim­ply need to get a newer, faster com­puter run­ning the lat­est OS,” but we know that the cur­rent eco­nomic cli­mate doesn’t offer as many option as before. If you decide to upgrade, some issues can result when try­ing to import your Pho­to­shop pref­er­ences, such as fea­tures and tools not work­ing prop­erly.  The workaround (we love workarounds!) is to sim­ply reset your preferences. Here’s the way to do just that: The main pref­er­ences file is called “Adobe Pho­to­shop CS6 Prefs.psp”.  The usual loca­tions, based on your OS are: Win­dows XP Under Win­dows XP the pref­er­ence file will be found at: \Doc­u­ments and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\PhotoshopCS6\Adobe Pho­to­shop CS6 Settings\Adobe Pho­to­shop CS6 Prefs.psp Move both the Adobe Pho­to­shop CSx Prefs.psp and Adobe Pho­to­shop X64 CSxPrefs.psp files to your backup folder. Win­dows 7 Under Vista and Win­dows 7 or 8, the pref­er­ence file will be found at: \Users\[Username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Pho­to­shop CS6\Adobe Pho­to­shop CS6 Settings\Adobe Pho­to­shop CS6 Prefs.psp Move both the Adobe Pho­to­shop CSx Prefs.psp and Adobe Pho­to­shop X64 CSxPrefs.psp files to your desktop. If you only see one of these files and not both, just move the sin­gle file.  It prob­a­bly means that you have been run­ning Pho­to­shop only in 64-bit or only 32-bit. Mac­in­tosh On MacOS the pref­er­ence file will be found at:  /Users/[Username]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Pho­to­shop CS6 Settings/Adobe Pho­to­shop CS6 Prefs.psp Now the fun begins: Quit Pho­to­shop, find the .PSP file, make a copy out­side the pref­er­ences folder.  Delete or remove the orig­i­nal file from the pref­er­ences folder. Launch Pho­to­shop, which now will cre­ate a brand new “pref­er­ences” (.PSP) file. Prob­lem solved. Impor­tant: Any changes to your work­space, key­board short­cuts, color set­tings that haven’t been saved as their own pre­set will be lost when the pref­er­ences are reset. On MacOS 10.7 and later, Apple has hid­den your Library folder, so you may need to make it vis­i­ble — but the loca­tion is the same for all MacOS X ver­sions. To find it, click the Option key and click on the “Go” tab in Finder’s menu.  This will show the hid­den Library folder. This is a very sim­i­lar workaround to find your “miss­ing” ICC pro­files (com­plete instruc­tions here). There is another way to do this. It is called “the quick Key­stroke method” to restore sev­eral pref­er­ence files at once. Impor­tant:  This method cleans out sev­eral pref­er­ence files and does NOT cre­ate a backup. Han­dle with care. Click here to keep reading  Step 1: Quit Pho­to­shop. Step 2: Hold down the fol­low­ing Key­strokes while click­ing the PS icon: Win­dows — CTRL-SHIFT-ALT imme­di­ately after you double-click the PS icon. Mac­in­tosh — CMD-SHIFT-OPTION imme­di­ately after you double-click the PS icon. Step 3: Click Yes to the fol­low­ing Dia­log Box Step 4: Restart Photoshop. Impor­tant: Any changes to your work­space, key­board short­cuts, color set­tings that haven’t been saved as their own pre­set will be lost when the pref­er­ences are reset. Lastly, an effi­cient way to increase per­for­mance is by using a sec­ondary hard drive as a startup, data, and scratch drive. A RAID con­fig­u­ra­tion is ideal. We have writ­ten sev­eral arti­cles about RAID sys­tems in the past. Do you plan on upgrad­ing your cur­rent sys­tem in order to keep up with Adobe’s soft­ware? As always, please share your thoughts, and let’s start a con­ver­sa­tion below. Related Posts: Installing and upgrad­ing Adobe Light­room 4. 32-bit or 64-bit — that is the question. Will Light­room 4 sup­port all my files? Maybe. Adobe Cre­ative Suite 6: is your cur­rent sys­tem supported? Adobe dis­con­tin­ues sup­port for Cin­e­maDNG on Pre­miere Pro. Adobe Light­room 4 HDSLR video sup­port explained. Adobe’s gen­er­ous upgrade pol­icy ends in 30 days.
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Back in April, when Adobe Pho­to­shop CS6 Beta was released, the com­pany dropped offi­cial sup­port for Win­dows Vista, but it con­tin­ued sup­port­ing Win­dows 7 and XP users.

A cou­ple of months later, Adobe gave an “advanced warn­ing” that 3D fea­ture upgrades in Pho­to­shop CS6 would no longer be sup­ported with Win­dows XP. Addi­tion­ally, Pho­to­shop CS6 (13.0) will be the last major ver­sion of Pho­to­shop to sup­port Win­dows XP.

Even though it is ancient, Win­dows XP is still the best sell­ing Microsoft OS, and makes up nearly 40% of their mar­ket share (after hav­ing peaked at 76.1% in Jan­u­ary 2007), it is some­what expected that Adobe’s soft­ware devel­op­ers now insist on the lat­est upgraded ver­sions of Win­dows OS (Win­dows 7 and 8) to run their applications.

This is what Adobe had to say:

Pho­to­shop CS6 already demon­strates that rely­ing on a mod­ern oper­at­ing sys­tem, graph­ics cards/GPUs and graph­ics dri­vers can lead to sub­stan­tial improve­ments in 3D, Blur Gallery and Light­ing Effect fea­tures not avail­able to Win­dows XP cus­tomers. The team hopes that by pro­vid­ing this infor­ma­tion early it will help you under­stand our cur­rent deci­sions around oper­at­ing sys­tem sup­port and where we we’re headed with future releases of Photoshop.

We encour­age all cus­tomers who are cur­rently using the 3D fea­tures in Pho­to­shop CS6 Extended to begin upgrad­ing their video card/hardware now so they can fully take advan­tage of future Pho­to­shop inno­va­tions as soon as they are available.

Cre­ative Cloud mem­bers will also be required to update their vRAM to at least 512 MB in order to access 3D fea­tures found in Pho­to­shop CS6 Extended.  If they don’t update, they’ll see the fol­low­ing dia­log box:

Photoshop CS6 Warning

It is a well-known fact that there are impor­tant per­for­mance gains by upgrad­ing Pho­to­shop 32-bit to the 64-bit ver­sion, espe­cially when work­ing with very large or han­dling mul­ti­ple images at a time. But we are get­ting increas­ingly con­cerned about Adobe’s respect and ded­i­ca­tion to its consumers.

We obvi­ously under­stand that like any other cor­po­ra­tion Adobe is try­ing to con­tin­u­ally increase sales and gen­er­ate prof­its. How­ever, there are too many changes hap­pen­ing too often, mak­ing it harder for users to keep up with the company’s rapidly chang­ing trends. We won­der how often they dis­cuss how costly and incon­ve­nient the con­stant changes are for users. Pho­tog­ra­phers, video edi­tors, illus­tra­tors, and 3D Design­ers using older sys­tems may not be able to access all of the content-aware tools, and 3D cre­ation tools.

In a per­fect world you could say “well, they sim­ply need to get a newer, faster com­puter run­ning the lat­est OS,” but we know that the cur­rent eco­nomic cli­mate doesn’t offer as many option as before.

If you decide to upgrade, some issues can result when try­ing to import your Pho­to­shop pref­er­ences, such as fea­tures and tools not work­ing prop­erly.  The workaround (we love workarounds!) is to sim­ply reset your preferences. Here’s the way to do just that:

The main pref­er­ences file is called “Adobe Pho­to­shop CS6 Prefs.psp”.  The usual loca­tions, based on your OS are:

Win­dows XP

Under Win­dows XP the pref­er­ence file will be found at:

\Doc­u­ments and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\PhotoshopCS6\Adobe Pho­to­shop CS6 Settings\Adobe Pho­to­shop CS6 Prefs.psp

Move both the Adobe Pho­to­shop CSx Prefs.psp and Adobe Pho­to­shop X64 CSxPrefs.psp files to your backup folder.

Win­dows 7

Under Vista and Win­dows 7 or 8, the pref­er­ence file will be found at:

\Users\[Username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Pho­to­shop CS6\Adobe Pho­to­shop CS6 Settings\Adobe Pho­to­shop CS6 Prefs.psp

Move both the Adobe Pho­to­shop CSx Prefs.psp and Adobe Pho­to­shop X64 CSxPrefs.psp files to your desktop.

If you only see one of these files and not both, just move the sin­gle file.  It prob­a­bly means that you have been run­ning Pho­to­shop only in 64-bit or only 32-bit.

Mac­in­tosh

On MacOS the pref­er­ence file will be found at:

 /Users/[Username]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Pho­to­shop CS6 Settings/Adobe Pho­to­shop CS6 Prefs.psp

Now the fun begins: Quit Pho­to­shop, find the .PSP file, make a copy out­side the pref­er­ences folder.  Delete or remove the orig­i­nal file from the pref­er­ences folder. Launch Pho­to­shop, which now will cre­ate a brand new “pref­er­ences” (.PSP) file.

Prob­lem solved.

Impor­tant: Any changes to your work­space, key­board short­cuts, color set­tings that haven’t been saved as their own pre­set will be lost when the pref­er­ences are reset.

On MacOS 10.7 and later, Apple has hid­den your Library folder, so you may need to make it vis­i­ble — but the loca­tion is the same for all MacOS X ver­sions. To find it, click the Option key and click on the “Go” tab in Finder’s menu.  This will show the hid­den Library folder.

This is a very sim­i­lar workaround to find your “miss­ing” ICC pro­files (com­plete instruc­tions here).

There is another way to do this. It is called “the quick Key­stroke method” to restore sev­eral pref­er­ence files at once. Impor­tant:  This method cleans out sev­eral pref­er­ence files and does NOT cre­ate a backup. Han­dle with care.

Click here to keep reading 

Step 1: Quit Pho­to­shop.

Step 2: Hold down the fol­low­ing Key­strokes while click­ing the PS icon:

Win­dows — CTRL-SHIFT-ALT imme­di­ately after you double-click the PS icon.

Mac­in­tosh — CMD-SHIFT-OPTION imme­di­ately after you double-click the PS icon.

Step 3: Click Yes to the fol­low­ing Dia­log Box

Resetting Photoshop Preferences Dialogue Box

Step 4: Restart Photoshop.

Impor­tant: Any changes to your work­space, key­board short­cuts, color set­tings that haven’t been saved as their own pre­set will be lost when the pref­er­ences are reset.

Lastly, an effi­cient way to increase per­for­mance is by using a sec­ondary hard drive as a startup, data, and scratch drive. A RAID con­fig­u­ra­tion is ideal. We have writ­ten sev­eral arti­cles about RAID sys­tems in the past.

Do you plan on upgrad­ing your cur­rent sys­tem in order to keep up with Adobe’s soft­ware? As always, please share your thoughts, and let’s start a con­ver­sa­tion below.

Source: eduardoangel.com

By now it is pretty clear that we love Google (most of the time). But the com­pany can learn a thing or two from Apple, espe­cially when it comes to impor­tant prod­uct announce­ments. On Mon­day, while Hur­ri­cane Sandy was hit­ting the East Coast ‚and 7.5 mil­lion peo­ple in 16 states have lost power, Apple announced that the company’s senior vice pres­i­dent of iOS was get­ting fired for (apparently) refusing to apol­o­gize pub­licly for the Apple Maps mess. The tim­ing was impec­ca­ble, since nobody noticed nor cared. Well, at the very same time, Google was announc­ing three new Nexus devices; a smart­phone, a 7-inch tablet, and a 10-inch tablet. Guess what hap­pened? Nobody noticed nor cared.

All three devices run Android 4.2, which Google describes as “a new fla­vor of Jelly Bean.” The Nexus 4 is Google’s lat­est 4.7-inch, quad-core Nexus smart­phone, devel­oped with LG, and priced well below ana­lysts expec­ta­tions. It will be avail­able for $299 (8GB) and $349 (16GB) for unlocked, contract-free units. How­ever, the best deal seems to be the 16GB unit on T-Mobile for $199. We can’t really pre­dict how sales will per­form, but what is cer­tain is that the Nexus 4 will make a strong impact on the smart­phone market.

Based on the promo video, it seems that Google is focus­ing the tablets on edu­ca­tion. We have writ­ten exten­sively about tech­nol­ogy and edu­ca­tion here, here, and here.

Although we are more excited with Samsung’s Galaxy Cam­era, one of our favorite fea­tures of the new Nexus smart­phone is Photo Sphere, a cam­era app/Google Maps hybrid that allows users to cre­ate and share 360-degree panoramas.

The phys­i­cal size and weight, screen size and res­o­lu­tion, and event the cam­era are all almost iden­ti­cal to what many (geeks) con­sider the best Android phone avail­able, the Sam­sung Galaxy S3. But there’s one big dif­fer­ence: The Nexus 4 is about half the price, which is enough to at least get our full attention.

galaxy s3             google nexus 4


Galaxy S3 Nexus 4 Price
  $199/$299 (with contract) $299/$349 (SIM-free) OS  Android 4.0.1 Touch­wiz UX/US Android 4.2 Proces­sor  Exynos 4412 (Quad Core) Qual­comm Snap­dragon S4 Pro Dis­play  4.8″ Super AMOLED 4.7″ WXGA IPS Res­o­lu­tion  1280×720 1280×768 Dimen­sions (WxDxH)  5.38″ x 2.78″ x 0.34″ 5.27″ x 2.70″ x 0.35″ Weight 133g 139g 4G LTE  Yes No NFC  Yes Yes Wi-Fi  2.4GHz, 5GHz (dual-band) WiFi 802.11 b/g/n (dual band) Rear-facing cam­era  8 Megapix­els 8 Megapix­els Front-facing cam­era  1.9 Megapix­els 1.3 Megapix­els Video capa­bil­i­ties  1080p Record­ing 1080p Record­ing Inter­nal storage  16/32GB 8/16GB SD card slot  Yes (up to 64GB) No Max. bat­tery life  11 hours (3G talk/data use) 10 hours (3Gtalk/data use)

The pric­ing for Tablets match or beat Lenovo’s and Amazon’s offer­ings: The Nexus 7 is priced at $199 for 16GB of stor­age, and $249 for 32GB; an HSPA+ ver­sion with 32GB of data is also avail­able for $299. An H what? HSPA+ stands for Evolved High-Speed Packet Access, a tech­ni­cal stan­dard for wire­less broad­band telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion with 168 Mbit/s (down­load speed) and 22 Mbit/s (upload speed). Obvi­ously, these are the­o­ret­i­cal peak speeds, and in real­ity HSPA+ is sim­ply an upgraded 3G GSM technology.

The obvi­ous ques­tion now is; will the Nexus 10 be able to truly com­pete against the fourth gen­er­a­tion Apple iPad ? It seems so. Not only the specs are very attrac­tive, but the 16GB Nexus 10 is $100 less than the Apple iPad.
What is oddly miss­ing from the chart below is the pixel den­sity on the Nexus 10, a mas­sive 300ppi, beat­ing the iPad’s 264ppi retina display.

ipad 4           nexus 10

iPad 4th gen­er­a­tion                                      Google Nexus 10 Tablet

Size 241.2 x 185.7 x 9.4 (mm)  263.9 x 177.6 x 8.9 (mm) Weight  652g  603g Screen  9.7-inch, 2048×1536  10-inch, 2560×1600 OS  iOS 6  Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) Stor­age 16/32/64 GB  16/32GB SD Card Slot  No  No Proces­sor  Dual-core A6X  Dual-core A15 RAM  Not listed  2 GB Con­nec­tiv­ity  Wi-Fi, 4G LTE  Wi-Fi Cam­era  Front 1.2 MP, Rear 5 MP  Front 1.9 MP, Rear 5 MP Blue­tooth  Yes, ver­sion 4.0  Yes, ver­sion 3.0 Bat­tery  42.5-watt-hour lithium-polymer  9000 mAh Lithium polymer Charger  Light­ning connector  Micro USB Mar­ket­place  Apple App Store  Google Play Store Start­ing Price $499 $399

How well do you think Google will com­pete against its fierce com­peti­tors? Are you on the fence on which Tablet to get for the Hol­i­days? Please share your com­ments and ques­tions below.

Source: eduardoangel.com

Putting us on the map.

We are proud to announce that Eduardo Angel LLC is now on a dig­i­tal map called, Made in New York, a great resource devel­oped by Mayor Michael Bloomberg for tech com­pa­nies, investors, devel­op­ers and designers. Featuring more than 500 local com­pa­nies across the city’s five bor­oughs, includ­ing 325 that are presently hir­ing, the projects’s goal is to inter­ac­tively show what is hap­pen­ing in the tech­nol­ogy indus­try through­out the five boroughs.

NYC Digital Companies Map

“We expect this map to be another tool that helps pro­pel our tech indus­try for­ward,” Bloomberg said . “The growth of the tech indus­try in New York City has been a crit­i­cal part of weath­er­ing the nation’s eco­nomic down­turn, far bet­ter than the rest of the country.” Since the map plots com­pa­nies by loca­tion, job seek­ers can explore their desired neigh­bor­hoods, mak­ing this a fan­tas­tic resource for any­one who lives or is mov­ing to New York City to find jobs in the tech­nol­ogy sector. The map can be also be sorted by dig­i­tal com­pa­nies, investors, and co-working and incu­ba­tor spaces.

“Cre­ative peo­ple want to be around other peo­ple and cre­ativ­ity is dri­ving the tech indus­try,” Bloomberg said. “We are mak­ing con­cen­trated efforts to sup­port entre­pre­neurs and startups.”

Addi­tion­ally, Mayor Bloomberg, the Depart­ment of Small Busi­ness Ser­vices and NYC Dig­i­tal, along With Google, Mash­able and Tum­blr have intro­duced a New Tech­nol­ogy Toolkit to Help Small Local Busi­nesses Launch and Grow Online. We believe that these new resources are increas­ing the vis­i­bil­ity, as well as com­pet­i­tive­ness for new com­pa­nies to stay on top.  We wel­come new challenges. 

Is this map a valu­able tool for you? What else can New York do to adver­tise its ris­ing tech indus­try?  As always, share your thoughts with us below.

Source: eduardoangel.com

Putting the “Zen” in Kaizen.

kaizen.png

You might have noticed that we recently changed the offi­cial name of this blog to “Kaizen.”

“Kaizen” is a Japan­ese busi­ness phi­los­o­phy of “con­tin­u­ous improve­ment of work­ing prac­tices, and per­sonal effi­ciency.” It comes from the Japan­ese words 改 (“kai”) which means “change” or “to cor­rect,” and 善 (“zen”) which means “good.” It can be loosely trans­lated as “to change and make good.”

We deeply believe in this phi­los­o­phy and do our best to apply it in our daily busi­ness and per­sonal lives. In the past two years we have com­pleted more than 200 projects for clients in dif­fer­ent indus­tries and geo­gra­phies. We have always tai­lored solu­tions and gen­er­ated tan­gi­ble results, while try­ing really hard to improve the qual­ity and added value in every­thing we do.

That is why we want to say thank you to all of our clients, the atten­dees of our mul­ti­ple events, and those of you who fol­low our blog and share opin­ions with us. The con­sis­tent sup­port is inspiring.

How­ever, the orig­i­nal inspi­ra­tion for this post just so hap­pens to be a film. We recently watched the amaz­ingly beau­ti­ful doc­u­men­tary “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” in which an 85-year-old Jiro Ono relent­lessly pur­sues his life­long quest to cre­ate the per­fect piece of sushi.

Mr. Ono, a world-renowned sushi chef, is the owner of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat, sushi-only, three-star Miche­lin Guide eatery. The restau­rant is located in a Tokyo sub­way sta­tion. Reser­va­tions have to be made months in advance. A 15-minute meal (if you are a fast eater) can eas­ily cost close to $400 per person.

The movie, as well as the unceas­ing quest for Kaizen, is a med­i­ta­tion on work and fam­ily, col­lab­o­ra­tion and the art of per­fec­tion, doing what you love, and lov­ing what you do.

Do you con­sis­tently seek to improve your­self and become better? Let’s have a con­ver­sa­tion about it below.

Source: eduardoangel.com

On Sharing.

I have never under­stood why so many pho­tog­ra­phers like to keep infor­ma­tion to them­selves. Per­haps it is a self con­fi­dence issue, or maybe they spent years per­fect­ing a unique tech­nique or sys­tem. Regard­less the rea­son, it isn’t smart. A cou­ple of years ago we were hired to pro­duce a series of work­shops in South Amer­ica. Early on, we real­ize it would not be pos­si­ble to launch the event. The rea­son? The local pho­tog­ra­phers host­ing and coor­di­nat­ing the event did not want other pho­tog­ra­phers to see what they were work­ing on.

Do you become a Grand Mas­ter chess player after read­ing Aron Nimzowitsch’s “My Sys­tem,” or a great Chef by sim­ply fol­low­ing Mario Batali’s Ital­ian recipes?  Would you become a rock start after read­ing Keith Richards won­der­ful “Life.”  Of course not! So, why do you think that by shar­ing your Light­room pre­sets, a Backup work­flow, cool edit­ing short­cuts or new light­ing tech­niques you are los­ing some­thing invalu­able? Quiet the opposite.

Apple observed the flood of ille­gal music file shar­ing that began in the late 1990s. Instead of build­ing higher walls and bet­ter fences, they built iTunes and started offer­ing legal, easy-to-use, and flex­i­ble à la carte song PAID down­loads. Record Labels obvi­ously win, artists, who receive 65 per­cent of the pur­chase price of dig­i­tally down­loaded songs, also win, cus­tomers who don’t need to pur­chase an entire CD when they want only one or two songs, win, and Apple clearly wins. In a nut­shell, every­body wins. Instead of hid­ing in your stu­dio so your trade “secrets” are not “stolen”, find bet­ter ways to share your ideas, to involve oth­ers, and to cel­e­brate often.

Source: eduardoangel.com

Our Dream Office.

First things first. My father once said that only when you have a pay­roll can you con­sider your­self a busi­ness owner. I must admit that it was a thrilling mile­stone in the his­tory of this com­pany when I began cut­ting checks. Look­ing ahead, I envi­sion the growth of our team and an expan­sion in what we do. As new dreams are born new mile­stones will be met.

We are cur­rently work­ing on an excit­ing endeavor called Dream Office. While the impor­tance of doing what you love can­not be under­stated, we also believe that where you do it is per­haps just as vital to ensure inspi­ra­tion, hap­pi­ness, and stel­lar work. Dream Office is a plat­form we use to imag­ine the ideal work­place, an envi­ron­ment that buzzes with life where we can per­form our best work and col­lab­o­rate to the best of our abil­i­ties. Today I am proud to share with you these Dream Office ren­der­ings. My wife, Katty, who is an extremely tal­ented archi­tect, made these draw­ings. Check her online port­fo­lio here.






It is our hope to trans­form these dreams into real­i­ties in the near future. We’ll keep you updated.

Source: eduardoangel.com

Startup Fuel and Rant: Technology and Startup Terminology List #1

startuprant:

link juice

Jargon that refers to the quality of a Web site’s link power, as in page rank, number of link votes, etc. - that are obtained from backlinks. This expression was coined by SEO consultant Greg Boser, for example “I need to get some more link juice for my latest site.”

modemhead

Slang for a person who is constantly connected and “has no life” other than that of being online.

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I absolutely could not agree more.
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I absolutely could not agree more.

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I am a contrarian, or so it seems.

UPDATE: July 9 from Fast Com­pany “5 Con­trar­ian Lessons From Suc­cess­ful Entre­pre­neurs.“
 

Lego Lucius Malfoy with Cape Wand

I am a contrarian. At least that’s what a good friend told me a few days ago. Why? Accord­ing to him because:

• I use an Android phone (check our Visual Serendip­ity, a weekly series of pic­tures taken with a cell phone) not an iPhone.

• I have a Lenovo tablet (read my good and bad reviews about it) instead of an iPad.

• I pur­chased a 60D the week AFTER the 5D Mark III was made avail­able. I might write a post about this if enough peo­ple show interest.

• I have been using Adobe Pre­miere Pro CS6 well before Apple released Final Cut X, and not Final Cut Pro.

And the cherry on top? I am now seri­ously con­sid­er­ing buy­ing an HP Z820 (yes, a PC com­puter) instead of the iMac that I was plan­ning to get for the past sev­eral months.

Now, you may be won­der­ing why I am a con­trar­ian in these mat­ters. As part of my job, I spent a lot of time think­ing about what will come next in terms of tech­nol­ogy. I bet on Adobe Pre­miere Pro months before the flood gates opened. I also have the priv­i­lege to see many prod­ucts, hard­ware and soft­ware, as pro­to­types or in their beta phases, so even though I can not talk about them, I can wait until they are com­mer­cially avail­able or I can get some­thing cheaper temporarily.

LEGO Minifigure Collection Series 4 : Sailor

But per­haps the main rea­son to be a “con­trar­ian” is that I don’t care much about brands or trends. What I do care a lot about is per­for­mance and reli­a­bil­ity. The faster I work on my busi­ness, the more time I have to build the busi­ness. And there’s another nice plus in this—I also get more dis­cre­tionary time to enjoy life off-line and out of the office.

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christianvivanco: Advice by Henry Miller In 1932-1933, while working on what would become his first published novel, Tropic of Cancer, Miller devised and adhered to a stringent daily routine to propel his writing. Among it was this list of eleven commandments, found in Henry Miller on Writing — a fine addition to these 9 essential books on reading and writing, part of this year’s resolution to read more and write better. via
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Advice by Henry Miller

In 1932-1933, while working on what would become his first published novel, Tropic of Cancer, Miller devised and adhered to a stringent daily routine to propel his writing. Among it was this list of eleven commandments, found in Henry Miller on Writing — a fine addition to these 9 essential books on reading and writing, part of this year’s resolution to read more and write better.

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