Recent Client Updates

Date: May 25 2008
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Posted in: Design, Work

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything or updated my portfolio. I’ve just added some recent work from some of my newer clients. First up is SALT. Optics, a Southern California company that produces some outstanding sunglasses and optical frames for perscription lenses that are distributed worldwide. We worked to improve functionality of the site, as well reorgainzing the product pages to better showcase their work and introduced a new home page animaton to offer a taste of SALT. Optics. Next is Solomon Financial, where we were selected to create a new logo and develop updated branding. We moved onto a complete redesign and development of their entire Web site and informative Articles section. Finally, we developed a Web site for Shape-Up Day Spa, located in Shape-Up Fitness Center, in Corona del Mar, California. We also updated branding collateral and marketing materials. Head over to the Portfolio to read a little more about each project.

Multi-Safari

Date: Aug 30 2007
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Posted in: Computers, Design, Internet, OS X, Tools

I previously wrote about Tredosoft’s Multiple IE, which is great for testing my web development in legacy versions of Internet Explorer. Today I came across Multi-Safari and just installed Safari 2.0.4, which is the latest non-beta version of Safari on most Mac’s running Tiger. I’ve been running the Safari 3 Beta for quite sometime and I don’t want to have to uninstall it everytime I need to check compatibility in Safari 2 for projects. This will save me a lot of time and allow me to continue running the Safari 3 Beta, check it out if you have a chance, Multi-Safari. (via cameronmoll.com)

Pixelmator

Date: May 31 2007
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Posted in: Computers, Design, OS X

Pixelmator looks like a possible Photoshop competitor with a pretty slick UI and is based on Apple’s Core Image technology. It’s supposed to take advantage of GPU-powered image editing, so your video card can handles some of the processing and frees up your CPU for other tasks. It doesn’t look like it will be available until late July 2006, but with a $59 price tag, it could be hard to pass up. We’ll have to see how it compares to Photoshop CS3, though it looks they share many comparable features. (via Daring Fireball)

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