Archive for April, 2007

Missing comments

Published at April 20, 2007 in Blogging.

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Eoghan from Eoghan McCabe design just alerted me to the fact that his comment got eaten by my spam filter. When I logged in to allow his post I noticed that several other comments from Martina Skelly of Activate and Diane Roberts of Enterprise Ireland had also been gobbled up by an over zealous spam filter.

Apologies to those who have posted here recently and had their comments dissappear into the ether. I’ve loosened up the filter a bit and wasn’t ignoring you :O)

Etiquette

Published at April 19, 2007 in Uncategorized.

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While various ‘yays’ and ‘nays’ for blogging etiquette are doing the rounds, I have one for those who run their own Business blogs.

If you post on a competitors web site, do you have the courtesy not to add your own link? Does it matter and should you care?

Personally, I do care and therefore when posting on other designers web blogs I tend not to link back to my site. At least I shouldn’t have and won’t be any more. Just professional courtesy…

Better software licensing

Published at April 17, 2007 in Customer service and Design Software.

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Buying legit software can be expensive but it’s worth it. Choosing which software vendor you’re going to run with can be even more expensive if the product or support turns out to be crap. I don’t always buy from the big guys either. It’s good to give the smaller independent teams a chance. You know; the guys for whom software is still a passion, the guys who are on their own support forums and will personally respond with a ‘thanks’ when you purchase an upgrade.

Yesterday I got a nice email from the developers of some software we use in our Virtual Tours services. Not only was a new edition available but it was a free upgrade (worth over 200 Euro) to us for being long-term customers. Just when I thought things couldn’t get any better, I noticed they’d also extended their licensing to allow one user license to cover a desktop AND a laptop computer. Now thats why I sometimes run with the smaller guys - more innovation too! And I did use their software on both my desktop and laptop and it was annoying that I had to have two separate licenses. Hopefully when these guys become the industry standard in Virtual Tour software they won’t become any less innovative and shockingly generous with their product.