Using a CDN to increase website speed D Revolution has hosted it’s own website with CMS, DAM, GTD and HelpDesk for 2 years now off a single ADSL connection – first with TPG and now with iiNet. Advantages are total control and really fast website updates. Downside are the speed ... Read more

Here are the official responses from AdStream regarding QuickCut and Linotype regarding FontExplorer X Pro. AdStream Support – Jamie Davidson (Head of Print and Online) I’m happy to advise that at this stage adstream have had no reports from our customers of compatibility issues with OSX10.7 and our Quickcut product ... Read more

If you design for a living, here what works and what breaks. Adobe Creative Suite – range of issues, some cosmetic, some workflow breaking. QuarkXpress 9 – update due late August. Looks it will be the first layout tool to go full screen! Extensis Suitcase Fusion – Lion update released ... Read more

Lion was released late last week, and whilst this is NOT a review, it is some observations on the upgrade so far. The Good The upgrade was smooth and quick – a download from the “App Store”. The new overall interface is more subdued. Personally, it makes the task or ... Read more

Saas and Freemium – great options, beware of the pitfalls. It’s all the rage at the moment to sign up to all the free services on offer. FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Apps, EverNote, etc… Like everything in this world – there is ALWAYS a cost. These days, it usually involves ... Read more

Cloud Based services – what are they good for? What is a cloud? Simply put, a cloud is a service delivered over the internet using an often vast grid of computers. Pure clouds are often though of as only accessible through a browser. Often though, you use locally installed software ... Read more

OS X Lion, the Apple Mac App Store, virtualisation and terminal services Mac OS X 10.7 A.K.A Lion will ship later this month and there are few interesting things. Lion will only be available as a download from the Apple Mac App Store. That brings up a few interesting points. ... Read more

DRevolution is having an End of Financial Year Sale. Sign up for bulk billing and get over 37% off the standard support rate! Simply pay for 20 or more hours of pre-paid support before June 30 and pay only $120 per hour. Bulk Billing credits never expire and can be ... Read more

Every week I get asked – “When do I get a new machine” Much to the dismay of the resellers I use, I recommend holding off this year till July 1. As of July 1, small businesses will be able to instant write-off any computer purchases under $5000. That means ... Read more

Apple Introduced the latest version of OS X 10.7, iOS 5 and a mobileme replacement – iCloud. Whilst a lot has been said on the blogosphere that does not need repeating, there a few interesting nuggets to take away from the Apple announcement. New version of the operating system that ... Read more

Proton Digital is no longer selling Apple, so I am now dealing with Stuart Hill from the Apple Store for Business. If you need to purchase a new or refurbished Apple equipment, from computers, to iPads and iPhones, I can now source these at discount direct from Apple. Contact us ... Read more

Cebit has come and gone again. Here are the highlights. If you have ever attended CeBIT, it is an odd mix of companies. From Chinese suppliers trying to strike up import deals for fans, LED’s, IC’s (integrated circuits), to computer manufacturers, merchandise manufacturers, data centre cabinet/aircon/power suppliers. Firstly what WASN’T ... Read more

This week I removed my second malware from a mac – the end is nigh. The malware was the much publicised MacDefender – it took more time to setup the remote session then it did to quit the Malware, trash it and delete the login item. As a bit of ... Read more

Welcome to the latest update of the D Revolution newsletter. We have finally launched our new website – only took since August last year!! The development is done in RapidWeaver with a few choice plugins and an iOS/HTML 5 friendly theme from NimbleHost. Javascript is used to detect the browser ... Read more

Welcome to the latest update of the D Revolution newsletter. Site update coming soon… D Revolution will soon be deploying a new website with iPhone/iPad support. This entails custom CSS as well as Javascript detection for iOS device (iPhone/iPad) If you are interested in adding support for mobile devices to ... Read more

Welcome to the April update of the D Revolution newsletter. D Revolution Joins Google Apps Authorized Reseller Program We are pleased to announce that we have become an authorised reseller of the Google Apps™ suite of communication and collaboration tools. Since moving our mail system to Google Apps in July ... Read more

News from the IT and publishing industries Adobe Creative Suite 5. Adobe will most likely announce Creative Suite 5 next month – Every previous Creative Suite launch was 18 months apart. If you are looking at new machines, or needing to upgrade from CS2 or CS3, I recommend holding off ... Read more

Welcome to the last newsletter for the year. It’s assumed nobody will read an email between Christmas and New Years! Holiday Notice Before delving into new publishing workflows, first a note on D Revolution’s holiday plans. D Revolution will be on holidays from Thursday 3rd of December and will return ... Read more

Print Standards and Colour Management. The next 3 issues of the D Revolution e-news will be chock full of useful information relating to the printing industry. Everything from the new Australian Standard for offset printing (AS/ISO 12647-2) to colour management to best practice for pre-flighting and PDF Creation. If you ... Read more

News from the IT and publishing industries as well as a round of compatibility updates… Services D Revolution provide support and training for people involved in the publishing/creative industries. If you need equipment, training, support, workflow support we can organise it! Our preferred supplier Proton Digital, has spawned a new ... Read more

Updates on Services and news from the IT and publishing industries Services Just a reminder, D Revolution has rolled out several new services over the course the last 9 months. We now offer the following; cPanel and Plesk webhost administration Migration services to Google Apps iPhone setup, integration and training ... Read more

Introducing several new D Revolution technological solutions. Xero online accounting to replace MYOB AccountEdge. After a trial and conversations with the developer D Revolution has ditched MYOB and taken up residence on the Cloud. We are now using xero for our accounting. For our clients, this means faster billing and reporting as ... Read more

D Revolution has expanded. After 10 years we are branching out! We can now offer professional Windows support along side our current offerings. If you need help integrating mac’s into PC environments or PC’s into mac environments, we can help. We are also working on integrating Entourage 2008 and Exchange ... Read more

Introducing the new D Revolution Help Desk D Revolution is proud to introduce a new web based Help Desk system. All clients will be able to log in, submit a support request and track it’s progress via the website and email. This new system will allow companies to track how ... Read more

D Revolution is going through some exciting changes. Firstly, we are looking at expanding. We are going to be deploying and maintaining a few open source packages like; ResourceSpace (a Digital Asset Management Program) – http://www.montala.net/resourcespace.php GLPI (an Inventory Management interface for your hardware and software) – http://glpi-project.org/?lang=en OCS (an ... Read more

D Revolution is turning 10! July 1 1998, D Revolution was born out of the smouldering ashes as my role of publishing support for Australia for QuarkXpress, Freehand and several PrePress tools at Mitsui Computers. It has been an exciting 10 years of continual learning and refining the craft of ... Read more

D Revolution is pleased to announce an expansion of our services. Secure Remote Support and Secure Client Connect. Secure Remote Support With this service, if you need support and you don’t want or need someone on-site, D Revolution can remotely connect and fix most issues that used to require an ... Read more

D Revolution has expanded!! On Saturday morning at 3.32 am, we had a new edition to the family. I now have 2 boys, a tear-away 2 and a half year old and a beautiful baby called Oliver. This means of course that I will look like death warmed up for ... Read more

LATEST NEWS This news is short and sweet. The stone family is expanding again, we are expecting another boy due in January! So we are taking a holiday – probably the last one for quite a while… I will be away from the 8th September to the 13th of September ... Read more

Welcome to the grand re-opening of the dRevolution web site. Since the company name change from “Desktop Revolution Consulting” to “dRevolution” the website has gone unchanged. Now with a new host ( .mac ) and increased space 10 MB to 1GB this site will expand to become a portal for ... Read more