Archives for October, 2009
Amazon Kindle vs. Barnes & Noble nook
Posted on October 29th, 2009 by Brad
Amazon is a great company and there is no question that they are about as innovative as it gets when it comes to e-commerce. In my opinion, Amazon is to e-commerce what Google is to search, a pioneer. RantsAndStuff is also proudly part of their associates program in which we get referral money from purchases [...]
Windows 7 is officially on shelves today and I can’t stay awake
Posted on October 22nd, 2009 by Brad
So, it’s October 22nd, 2009 and Microsoft has officially relased Windows 7, the actual successor to Windows XP, and I wanted to write more about it but ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
This is me not caring.
Buy a Mac.
Movie special effects
Posted on October 22nd, 2009 by Brad
The big budget blockbusters of today rely heavily on computer generated effects. And for good reason. Take the latest Transformers movies for instance, tough to produce giant transforming robots without the aide of a massive server farm rendering them in amazing detail. When executed correctly, these computer effects can look amazingly realistic, but when they’re [...]
Adobe rant
Posted on October 21st, 2009 by Brad
Adobe fuels my IT rage. My wife is working on an invitation in Microsoft Word. She’s using a font that not everyone has. One way to preserve the font is to save it as a PDF file. So she asks me, “will everyone that receives this be able to open a PDF file?” Perfectly valid [...]