January 2008 - Posts

• Announcing Graffiti Beta 2 : Graffiti CMS

  We Telligenti have let Beta 2 of Graffiti out the door today.  For those of you that don't know Graffiti is a hybrid CMS & Blogging engine. Perfect for individuals or small businesses that want to manage both relatively static and dynamic content pages.  The article below gives a full list of improvements, but my personal recommendations would be to download it for... Tools for controlling sort order – We’ve added some drag-and-drop tools to make it really easy to create/define your own custom sort order for content. This is especially important when using Graffiti as a CMS. Versioning support added for Themes – We’ve added version support for themes, so now you can make changes, review them and easily revert back to what you used to have. Announcing Graffiti Beta 2 : Graffiti CMS Posted Jan 22 2008, 12:12 PM by Josh Ledgard's Blog Filed under: telligent, blogging, mindless linkage

• My New Zune 8

  I was hesitant to try and squeeze my collection down into an 8GB "best of" set of music, but the advantages are totally worth it. The load time switching multiple tracks in a random playlist seems faster here than on the hard drive based models. The battery lasts MUCH longer than my 30 GB model.  I can go a couple of days without plugging it in and don't mind letting it sync wirelessly. Since I wouldn't get much I kept my Zune 30 and loaded it with a playlist of everything on this zune and my wife's zune. Good to keep in the car for road trips.  I like the custom art. I went all out and set the zune background to the color version of the engraving. It's a "Maniac" zune. :-) The screen is sharper for album art than that the Zune30 since the resolution is the same with a smaller size. It's a TON smaller. I don't have to skip as many tracks if I just play the 8gb on random since this is just the best 8 out of 45gb of music. Personally I've never gotten into mobile video. The services just don't seem to have it as baked as Music in terms of complexity and I prefer using my laptop on trips for movies if I want to watch something. I can frame the print that came with my Zune Originals purchase. It will replace the "kitty" art that still hangs in my office. (That was formerly Gretchen's home office.) The only complaints I have are with the client software, but it's nothing that isn't manageable. I highly recommend checking out a Zune 8 if you are in the market. Posted Jan 10 2008, 07:57 PM by Josh Ledgard's Blog Filed under: zune, Microsoft, commentary, music

• My New Years Resolution

  I could say it's to work out more, pick up guitar again, code more, learn Spanish, blog more, etc, but the truth is that I needed a resolution that went up one level so I get more time back to do all that and anything else.  So my New Years resolution is simply to watch less bad TV.  You know the TV I'm talking about. The shows you don't really look forward to, but the Tivo didn't tape anything else interesting for you so you watch them.  I might not even watch less TV  than I do now with this resolution, but my resolution is to simply not watch crappy TV that I'm not excited about. Posted Jan 03 2008, 06:04 PM by Josh Ledgard's Blog Filed under: commentary, TV