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The State Of The DAM 2 — Adobe Lightroom

Screenshot of Adobe Lightroom 2

Adobe Light­room 2

In my pre­vi­ous post on Dig­i­tal Asset Man­age­ment, I briefly out­lined some of the entry level con­tenders for DAM soft­ware such as Google Picasa and Adobe Pho­to­shop Ele­ments. In the rest of this series, I will look at some of the heavy weights, the pro­fes­sional asset man­age­ment sys­tems. I will start with the one I use most —  Adobe Light­room. Not sure if this is a good idea as I it is the prod­uct that I am most inti­mate with, know­ing its strengths and weak­nesses. Let’s get started…

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Building A Solid Foundation For Your WordPress Blog

Foundation Building!

Build­ing foun­da­tions — the hard way!

When I started this blog, the web was alight with talk of Word­Press, Blog­ger, and other “blog­ging plat­forms”. I even­tu­ally chose Word­Press as I was blown away by all the var­ied and artis­tic themes that were avail­able for it. Also Word­Press is extremely extend­able through plu­g­ins for embed­ding YouTube movies, photo’s from Flickr and a host of other things. Before you even start blog­ging, it is impor­tant to build a solid foun­da­tion for your Word­Press Blog. Here are 11 plu­g­ins to help with that…

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A Home on the Web (Part 2 — If you build it…)

Last time out, I out­lined some con­sid­er­a­tions around domain names. In the end I went with a “.ie” and a “.com” address, but while choos­ing a good domain name is some­what impor­tant, the real work only starts then — reg­is­tra­tion, host­ing, email, etc. My next deci­sion was where to reg­is­ter as there are many, many domain reg­is­trars out there, and at least with the “.com” some can be had for free (with a huge dose of adver­tis­ing on the side of course).

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