Posts from — July 2008

I’ve been installing, uninstalling a lot of software in my PC during the past few months. Because one of my jobs is testing tech toys and IT stuff which usually come with utility software.

Even though, OS virtualization seems adequate, I still don’t like the idea of installing/uninstalling software in my hard drive that often.

Then I found Mojopac, another incarnation of virtualization. It took me about 10 minutes to install the software on my USB flash drive. Now I got a fresh Windows XP with me everywhere I go. I can plug my flash drive in my friend’s computer, bam!, I got my own desktop without installing anything on my friend’s computer while still using my friend’s computer’s CPU power and Memory! pretty neat.

Installing and uninstalling software are entirely on the flash drive itself. You can even use Mojopac on your cellphone if you have enough disk space. (just a few hundreds MB.)

Recently, I have to rethink about the pricing for my service. There are some differences pricing for my client in the states and clients in Thailand. But people are people, we are the same everywhere.

“Some people will always think that your prices are high no matter what you charge.” from Vandalay design

One of the reason is that some clients have no idea how much they should pay for your service. They have never hire anybody to create a website before. They have never hire anybody to design their new house before.

What should I do about it? Educate my clients and tell them how I will do the job, how is the job done, what action is involved in the project, and how hard it is working for the project.

Tell them all the details if you can, and I believe they will start appreciating what you are going to do for them.

Posterous is a another type of blogging site. The idea is so simple, you might think, “Why haven’t I thought about it before?”
Posterous skip the sign up/setup process. You create your very own blog by writing an email to post@posterous.com. Posterous then creates a blog for you from your name, such as http://firstname.posterous.com. Very nice…
Check out mine at fatnote.posterous.com
There is no theme or template to choose from, but if the most important part of your blog is your post, then the default theme from Posterous does a wonderful job of emphasizing it.

This is probably the biggest news I have heard today. Adobe just come up with a way to make Flash website indexable by search engine.  full story at Adobe
I’m not sure how it will impact my job, but I’m sure that it will completely change my approach on creating a website.
I always dislike a website that uses Flash as a main element/engine for many reasons. Search engine can’t see it is one of the reasons. But now that curse is lifted. wow… I’m not sure what to do with this new information now.

Becoming visible is one thing, actually ranking highly is another. Google currently can find about 73 million Flash files on the Web. But until Adobe makes it easy for the average Webmaster or blogger to link deeply into those Flash files, they are not likely to appear at the top of many search results. - Techcrunch

I don’t deny that I’m a bit relieve that there are still reasons not to use Flash.

Tags: flash, index, google, yahoo