Things To Do in 4 Hours
- Work on migrating Mike McAllen’s site to a new host(today if possible), then finish the reboot of the new site(by Monday other project factors permitting)
- Establish a theme Gallery including them preview functionality on Softduit
- Finish the Toad Creations Website (this week)
- Get a Quick Fast sprint of a swim in this afternoon
- Get cleaned up and out of dock/swimming clothes & make myself presentable
- Head to the Charlotte Interwebs Meetup this evening
- Get the small stack of recent bills paid
- Test Out 2 new twitter advertising services for future article
- Get AVG installed on My Wife’s computer while she’s out of town & not using it
- Get 3 new products listed & established on Softduit
- Prepare the groovie new blog marketing campaign that will launch in about 40 – 50 days in time for IzeaFest
- Run my last IzeaFest Contest!
Cheapest Price on Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Available Now
Note: Cross posted from Maven Mapper’s Information.
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I’ve been covering Dragon Naturally Speaking from Nuance for a long time but have not seen the prices this low before.
Right now you can buy Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 for $29.99! For your average user, that’s all you need! If you want to have the extra ability to utilize an MP3 voice recorder (I use a Sony) you can get the Preferred version for as low as $117.99 and the ‘wireless’ version for $155 (that’s bluetooth wireless, I personally use an after market 2.6ghz wireless logitech headset that will work with any version).
You could buy the basic version for $30 and an $90 logitech clearchat wireless headset for a total price of $120 or just jump to Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 bluetooth wireless at $155.
No matter what these are great prices. Typically the lowest prices you will se are about $80 for Basic, $150 for preferred and $250 for bluetooth wireless. The best part about this is that at $30 for Basic, this is a great price for a first time user to get in and see just how great this software is these days.
Note: Cross posted from Maven Mapper’s Information.
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My Twitter Account Is Back Up
After being suspended for unknown reasons yesterday, my twitter account is back up and working today. I had to send in a support ticket and a follow up email, but things are working again. I guess I missed a chance to twit about my experience going to the drive in, but that’s OK.
I’m not that much of a blog/twitter/ social media addict. I just use it when its there, and if its not there, well I’ve got lots of other things to do.
Greatest WordPress Theme Generator Now Available for Macs!
Since November of 2008, PC User’s have benefited from the WordPress Theme Generator called Artisteer and now that WordPress Generator desktop application is available for Apple / Mac users. The initial Mac beta was just released and people that purchase/have purchased a PC license will also have the ability to use the license on a Mac or vice versa on a PC.
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I have been giving demonstrations of WordPress as a Content Management System for several months which includes a demo of Artisteer and the first question that is always asked is, “Does Artisteer work on a Mac?”
Now the answer is YES! Artisteer does work on Macs.
Better yet, existing Artisteer users already know that when you purchase a license, that license will receive free upgrades for a year. I have personally created almost 100 WordPress themes since purchasing Artisteer last fall, and I have significantly benefited from many many upgrades to the software. This latest upgrade ads more Avatar support for WordPress, ads support for Dot Net Nuke and past upgrades provided support for Joomla & Drupal templates and much much more.
here’s the latest news release from Artisteer about the Mac Capability
Artisteer for Mac (Beta) has arrived!
Artisteer 2.2 for Mac (Beta) is now available by clicking here. Couple interesting facts:
- Artisteer for Mac joins the family of products based on cross-platform .NET framework known as Mono.
- Artisteer might be the first product for Mac OS utilizing the ribbon interface first introduced in Microsoft Office 2007 for Windows.
Technical notes and known issues for beta testers:
- Artisteer for Mac runs on Intel based hardware with OS X version 10.5 (Leopard).
- Artisteer for Mac requires X11 which is usually installed by default on OS X 10.5.
- Artisteer may require approx 1 minute to start the first time after installation.
- The "Open" and "Save" dialogs display Windows style folder structure and may require additional navigation to desired Mac folders.
- The top Mac menu bar does not offer an option to quit Artisteer. Use the Artisteer menu, keyboard shortcut ‘Command’+'Q’, or the red window close button to quit.
- Keyboard shortcuts stop working after clicking anywhere within the web design preview area.
- Certain amount of instability and limitations (as above) are expected due to limitations of the current Mono framework 2.4.
- There is a slight chance that your Mac computer may freeze when using Artisteer (this happened once in our tests). Please save all your work often in case you need to reboot your computer.
Customers who purchased an Artisteer license can use it on both PC and Mac computers (one each) during the beta period. An official release date of the Mac version will be planned after receiving detailed issue reports from our beta testers and determining how much work is needed to resolve those issues.
Please send feedback and report reproducible issues to our support via the Contact Us page.Artisteer version 2.2 update
We are releasing a new update to Artisteer 2.2 to resolve a few recent issues reported in the previous version 2.2 Beta.
- Artisteer: Added "Options" button in the export dialog.
- Artisteer: Added DotNetNuke Skin export announced below.
- Artisteer: Fixed a bug with the font size being altered by changing Articles -> Line Height.
- WordPress: Improved compatibility with Avatar List plugin.
- Joomla: Resolved custom footer not showing up.
- Joomla: Resolved centered menus not shown correctly.
- Joomla: Resolved a problem with the text "’30′, ‘height’ => ’30′ near h2" showing on some pages.
- Joomla: Fixed incorrect path to spacer.gif in script.js file in Joomla templates.
- Drupal: Fixed an issue with broken image appearing instead of a logo uploaded in Drupal.
The new version 2.2.0.17297 can be obtained by clicking here and may become the officially released version 2.2 after additional testing.
Note: Cross posted from The LiveWriterz.
Travels Are Over, Projects in High Gear
It is June 24, 2009 and I feel like I have been traveling for weeks. I just returned from a weeklong stay in Illinois, and my hometown of Metamora just east of Peoria Illinois. I went with my wife and children and stayed at my parents house to visit with family and friends. The kids at a great time seeing grandpa and grandma and their cousin Zachary, their aunt and uncle, and their great-grandparents.
My son Corbin got to ride his motorcycle in the woods, I got to catch up with my best friend Bob Shipton and have a few drinks one night and my wife and friends, and even ended up in a hot political debate.
All three kids got sick at one point or another while we were traveling, and my middle daughter Zoe is still nursing a fever that bounces around 100° every now and then. I’m back in the dock office today, and I got tons of work to do after all the traveling I’ve done over the last couple of weeks. I’ve been to Holden Beach North Carolina, to Durham North Carolina, and then all the weights Peoria Illinois. I drove all those miles there was no flying involved this time around, and I’m definitely glad to be off the road for a while.
I am not going anywhere for the Fourth of July weekend, and my next trip probably will not take place until the middle of July when I’m going to either Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego, or all three.
I’m dictating this right now with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, which I have been in use in a whole bunch lately. I’ve been doing so much web design lately, that my writing has definitely dropped off and I’m using Dragon NaturallySpeaking to help me get over a little bit of writer’s block, or maybe more specifically, writers procrastination.
I’m getting ready to scan in some old bills that I need to file. I do this about every two or three months, and I find that it’s a great way to get me multitasking when I have a lot of big projects to do. It’s actually easier for me to do many different things when I’m doing any different things already. There’s just something about getting my brain geared up for fast work. So the mundane activity of scanning documents, while in doing something else simultaneously seems to help in that regard.
Among other things I have to get my new company off the ground as well, some of you may recall that I started a new company with some partners at Startup Holden Beach, we have some programming things that we need to do both on the front end of the web site and on the backend of the actual processing. First off today, I’m working on some client projects because the bills have to be paid!
I did a little bit of investigation on the new company while I was traveling talking with a relative in good friend of mine who’s a programmer. So the startup work will probably hold off until Saturday as a knockout some important client projects. Oh and there’s also some social networking stuff that’s catch up on here in the Charlotte area, including an inter-webs design meet up on Thursday where my friend Robert will be giving a talk on SEO.
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