I’ve uploaded the first of my cheat sheets that i use to remind myself how to setup my standard development / demo environment. The first one covers setting up Windows 2003, Active Directory as well as removing some default options that get in the way of demoing / development. View it here

After attempting an autoupdate that installs Office 2003 SP2, failing, realising Excel was now broken and wont launch, finding my installation CD, fixing it, downloading the full 100Mb Office 2003 SP2 installer from Microsoft and retrying i now have my machine behaving normally once again. Sheesh! I’m so glad i wasn’t […]

Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 and Photoshop Elements 4.0 are both now available. These products are way cool! I’ve always been a little to lazy to bother tagging my digital photo library, but with the new face tagging you can tag all your photos in no time at all! After 20 minutes […]

Just returned home after seeing Garbage perform at Sydney’s Horden Pavilion. They were absolutely fantastic as usual and proved themselves once again after being together for ten years. This was the fourth time I have seen the band play live. Highlights - Shirley Manson adlibbing and taking audience song requests from […]

Apparently this is the Coolest Car in the World. Since i already have the Mazda 3, I’m very tempted to fit out the rest

Did you know that you can use Adobe Audition to remove annoying camera click sounds?
I was editing home video footage of a quiet awards presentation (my wife’s graduation ceremony) and was annoyed by the sound of camera clicks as people around me were taking snapshots. The presenter was giving a speech […]

I took the opportunity today to make a little noise in my home studio. I gave my new Tranzport Wireless Controller a good workout. This little “must have” accessory for my studio allows me to control my PC via a wireless connection while I’m in the other room playing guitar or […]

A new white paper is available now at the Adobe LiveCycle Designer Developer Center describing the process of linking PDF Forms to XML Schema. Starting with a data definition makes form design a lot easier as the rules that govern what data can be collected are already in place. Using LiveCycle […]

After being asked countless times by Acrobat users how to create a Digital ID, I decided to put together a quick step by step guide that explains the process. You can find the “Creating Digital IDs with Adobe Reader & Acrobat 7.0″ guide here.

If you use Eclipse 3 with the Lomboz J2EE plugin to develop applications you may find this JBoss 3.2.5 server definition file handy. I’ve configured mine to point directly to my local installation of Adobe LiveCycle. If you are running JBoss 3.2.5 with LiveCycle you can use this configuration by simply […]