The Musings of a Melbourne Graphic Designer...

Well this seems like a pretty neat trick that I would like to get working!

Let’s see if this set up works… apparently if I add a blog to my site it will share it with my Twitter and Facebook accounts.

I think there could be an afternoon of fiddling with settings coming up, but I am ready to be happily surprised if it works first go.

Thanks to Marilyn Awad from Holding Redlich I was lucky enough to attend the V21 Digital Media Conference.
I haven’t been to many conferences like this before and it was amazing to discover that such an established business community like this exists.
There were fantastic presentations during the day that shone a light onto the future of digital media and how users will engage with it.
Quite a few of the speakers touched on the staggering amount of data that is uploaded to the ‘cloud’ and how media delivery services will be forced to reinvent themselves.
Thanks again to Marilyn for the opportunity to attend. I look forward to V21 2012.

I am so glad that people who love Apple also have a sense of humour.

Playmobil Apple Store Playset is the perfect example. Click the link to watch the video.

Well here is something that I knew about, kind of… but has been put in front of my face again.

I love the introduction of new ways to keep in touch with people and will give anything a go when it comes to messaging etc.

It has been brought to my attention that SMSing has been pretty much killed by messaging over the data component of your mobile account. This means no more SMS charges for people who use the app on their phone!

I say lets all jump on board this fantastic idea and get the stupidly high SMS charges down to what they should be… 2 or 3 cents an SMS.

If you use an iPhone or Android phone check out an app called ‘whatsapp’. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Don’t know about the rest of you but I am super keen to get my hands on the new iPad 2.

I am even working through the logistics of joining the masses at the Apple Store to get my hands on one of them… doubt that’ll happen though. Maybe I might go to that website where you can employ Uni students to do odd jobs and get them to queue for me.

I recently did some research on the iPad 2. This involved going to YouTube and typing “iPad Fail” into the search. My theory was that this would tell me all the stuff Apple got wrong in the first iPad so I could make sure it was fixed in the next model.

Ends up that this was a really good way to do my homework. I watched a bunch of geeks moan about features that Apple had left off the first iPad and I went back and fourth to the Apple site to make sure it was fixed in the iPad2… very cool indeed.

Anyway, watch this space over the next few months to get my own version of iPad 2 Fail or Success.

How awesome would it be to have your own website on a computer in your office and have your clients come straight to it when they want to access your website? No more dealing with hosting companies and forking out hundreds of dollars a year. Sounds perfect, right?

Now imagine being a person that makes websites for a living. How unbelievable would it be to host all your client websites on that same computer… imaging the thousands of dollars you would save every year!

Unfortunately it isn’t that simple. It’s not until you actually researching this scenario that you actually start to appreciate what a hosting company does and how unreliable the Australian internet connections are.

In Australia we all have moments where the internet vanishes and we can’t access the web or download our important emails (annoying!). This also effects businesses and all computers in the office. So it makes sense that if you are hosting your own website and the internet goes down your website goes down for anyone who is trying to view it.

Now just imagine if you were hosting 20 client emails and the internet goes down for 1/2/ a day. How many upset clients do you think you’d be hearing from? All of them!!

After putting in the research and looking back at those money hungry hosting companies it dawns on you that they actually provide an awesome service that is super reliable with backups on their backups.

Therefore until internet connections are 100% reliable, we have a server with a mirrored backup server and a generator for when there is a black-out I am happy to pay the very reasonable sum to these hard working hosting companies. Keep up the good work… or else.

Being a new user of WordPress we are loving the ability to add new elements to websites, but are we making the work too easy and losing some of the creativity with all these themes?

I guess the next step is to look into creating themes for ourselves and making WP work for us or finding out how to incorporate WP elements into existing websites.

We love learning here at RSD.