NBC is launching it's own subscription tv show download service.

Apple's latest product - the iBrick? [link]

would apple really brick those iphones? wow.

Apple's latest product - the iBrick?

OTOH, I've seen the same cryptic two-sentence comment all over the place today, most often interpreted as benignly as "we won't promise not to fuck with your ringtones again". I suspect the truth is somewhere in between, or maybe more likely, that The Steve was digging on sounding all oracular and shit.

Yeah, I wasn't quite sure how they made the logical leap to the iBrick out of that. I can't imagine they'd be willing to piss people off that much.

I think that some people will unintentionally brick their phones trying to unlock them or applying other hacks and then blame Apple. It's pretty easy to brick a RAZR trying some of the hacks on them.

Hey. I mentioned a while ago that I am rebranding my coaching practice and that I'd gotten some help from a designer with a new logo, card and web page designs.

For a variety of reasons, it is driving me up an ever-loving tree to have no control over the change process. Tragically, my copies of Pagemaker, Illustrator and Freehand are way, way out of date.

I've discovered that I can upgrade to InDesign from my Pagemaker 6.5.

Does it make sense to do so when my greatest need is to create and update promo materials and webpages?

I don't have photoshop and, quite frankly, can't afford to spend much on new tools.

Is this the new design you showed me? Nice. No help on the tools...but I liked the redesign.

I get very twitchy if I can't tweak a design, so I know what you mean. What form is it in now?

The graphics person has given me some jpegs, some photoshop files...which I can't use...and a couple of html pages that I can't seem to make work, despite having been perfectly able to do so for my current pages.

The new pages should look like this:
home page
subpage

And yet, when I try to load the html pages my designer got from her designer, it comes out like this:
homepage
subpage

When I tried to cut and page the jpg images into a new business card because the one shown is too expensive to print...not to mention non-standard (doesn't fit anywhere)...AND, when I asked for the names to be changed they changed the logo but not the contact info... t /rantypants I used appleworks to create a new pdf but the end result was terribly fuzzy.

I'm so frustrated. I can DO this stuff but I don't seem to have the right tools and, as stated above, not so much with the funds. Plus, time is tick-tocking away. I really need to get these materials out into the world.

Thanks for the good thoughts Suzi. I really like to new design too. I'd like it even better if I could get it to work!