Recent content by mikemike

nice. for me the mechanical problems were almost as bad as dealing with amateur clients... though your experience sounds much more complex and unforgiving than my simple spreads to the printer. i used to wander down central square and over and see the rails and dream about when this was...

oh, yes, i remember freehand when it was still, what, 'aldus'? i used indesign because the honolulu printer i used used it too and knew it's quirks, if not quarks. it's really neat being reminded of the processes we were enslaved to just to get something out that we intended. but, i loved doing...

gnarly -- especially the x-acto. back in the mid-fifties again just thinking about it. I used Illustrator for my first ad-shop work, sending eps files to the printer. i grabbed InDesign as soon as it hit compUSA, and that meant PDF's were well integrated into the program -- my printer got...

thanks, and zoobah. i too had my clients from jello -- 'word perfect', yes, and then 'microsoft publisher'. yes, they knew what they wanted... Thankfully, i've been able to produce books for friends and on PC and this was pretty cool. moments like squishing Optima to the page using Quark and...

scrutinizing yellow page graphics and then collecting business cards when i was 12, all for the looks of things. newspaper ads too. for a kid, very exotic stuff -- things i didn't understand made to be understood with images and composition. my earliest lessons. i ended up with an art MA and art...

jeepers, that's a job. i have a friend who worked donnelly in the summer. that was just about hefting boxes but it gave him extra money.

wow, yes, thanks for that. i thought i was the only one. yeah, probably, i'll find the cable when i'm looking for an old router... MFA boston was quite the place back in the sixties. it was either there or B.U. for art... BU for painters and MFA for art.

sweet. a wonderful look into the industry and i learned a lot from this. dude, i love typesetting and fonts. i learned lead type setting in '58 in middle school. i learned layout in art class and my first graphic award was for a very simple and proportionately expressive, times new roman, of...

totally exciting. i always wanted, but never could afford, a professional Mac system, and i've been building/assembling PC's since 1989, with a new graphics card every year or so... it was like that -- 8MB of vram upped to 12..., and 286 to 486 processors... monolithic hard drives on MSDOS and...

yes, i'm focused on g-sync. i remember back in the day with earlier graphic cards tearing in exactly the way g-sync and free-sync are meant to fix. i'm thinking of the 27" asus proart monitor. My monitor, now, is an asus PB278Q, which is 1440 at 70FPS and has excellent color, but not 144 FPS --...

thank you. you know, i actually ordered and received a 4070ti and then returned it unopened. it was $999.00 on sale, and i didn't really understand what these new cards were about. the 4060 ti with 16GB for half the price is probably the more realistic card for me. cooler running and with enough...

the last time i upgraded i went modestly all out and got an asus p9x79 pro mobo, a 3930k cpu and 64GB of quality ddr 3, ( i do content developing too. ) and, an asus 1080ti videocard. I've overclocked the DDR3 and the CPU and video card, and they're pretty fine, actually, for running Trainz. i...

i'm using premier and photoshop for a hundred years now, and with several CPU's and graphic cards. SSD's have been maybe the happiest instant improvement. i've slowed way down on video making these last dozen years, but i still shoot several hundred fat canon raw images every six months, and one...

yes, i've thought this too, but the ddr4 boards were expensive for most of the years i've had this. and, the performance boost -- from reading about it on the net -- just weren't that impressive. even today the 3930 is considered a good cpu, and, with the 1080ti, a good system. Looking at my...

you know, i'm kind of superficial about computers and specks and mostly buy by recommendations. but, putting my mind to it, and looking at some i-7 3930 youtube appreciations, i'm thinking i should look at a ddr 3 upgrade ---? up to a higher rated stick than i could afford 11 years ago. if it...