Archive for the ‘Heart to Hearts’ Category
Mac Attack…
December 13, 2007I am the first one to tell you how much I love my Mac. I’m on my fourth one and it’s like… my baby. My entire life is on that cute lil’ white machine (I have an iBook - pre-Intel, but upgraded to Leopard, thankyouverymuch) - photos, music, my writing, my CSS editor…
So when I first started here at RocketLife, I was BUMMED that this cool new product wasn’t going to work on my baby.
And I (gulp) crossed over to the dark side. I bought a PC. Shameful, I know. I did, however, put one of those cute white Apple stickers on it for solidarity.
The funny part is that THE ONLY thing I do on my new PC is use RocketLife, so you can probably imagine just how badly I am anticipating RocketLife becoming Mac-friendly.
I can’t confirm any specific timeline, but RocketLife should be Mac compatible some time in 2008. We’ll have a party over here - trust me.
In the meantime, I certainly don’t expect that you’ll buy a PC like I did. But you can always borrow a friend’s or use the PC at the office (not that I’m condoning spending your work hours playing around with RocketLife… ok, maybe I am) or convince your boyfriend/husband/son/neighbor kid to stop playing that World of Warcraft game for, like, five minutes so you can make a photo book, pretty please with a sugar on top!
Forgive me…
December 3, 2007I’m sorry, guys. I’ve been totally under the weather for the past week. Finally back to my old self and ready to get started with the holiday countdown.
First project will be up today!
Commitment Phobic?
November 9, 2007I don’t know about you, but I have a slight fear of commitment. I freak out on date three. I get anxious about signing a six-month lease. And my car loan? Scares me to death. Will I still REALLY love my cute little hatchback in 48 months?
That’s one of the things that I like about RocketLife. I don’t have to sign up and create yet another username and password that I’m pretty much guaranteed to forget in a few days. I don’t have to spend hours uploading my pictures, then renaming them, then finally creating something with them. I can get started right away, choose the photos I want and let the Smart Arrangement Technology do its thing.. It’s kind of like little elves in your computer that create cool things for you. And I’m all for that!
Let’s say that you’re making a photo book and you’re about halfway through but you have to go pick up the kids from a soccer game or meet up with your girls for a Starbucks and shoe shopping run. You can save your project with the click of a button. Only the really cool thing is that it’s not saved out in never never computer server land, but right to your very own hard drive.
And, when I get back to the project, if I decide that I’d rather make a calendar instead - no problem.
RocketLife - making life easier for commitment-phobes everywhere. Including yours truly.
Well hello there…
October 24, 2007Ahem, drum roll please…. Welcome to the new and very fabulous RocketLife blog!! Cheers all around! Champagne glasses clinking! Applause! I’m Shea. And I’m kind of craft challenged. And I’m pretty sure that I’m not the only of you out there who considers themselves to be somewhat creative, but lacking in follow-through. Or maybe you just simply don’t have time to be the divine creative being that you wish you were.
If you’re like me, you have boxes of photos that have never made it into an album. You have a digital photo collection that continues to reside on your memory card or somewhere on your hard drive. Maybe, in a brief burst of inspiration, you ordered some prints somewhere. But it probably took a long time and you probably never did it again.
That’s why I’m here (and why I hope you are too) - to discover how we can actually make use of the photographs that we take. And maybe, over time, all of the weddings and baby showers and first days of school and senior proms will make their way out of our respective computers (or shoeboxes in the closet) and into something tangible.
This is like scrapbooking for the non-scrapbooker. For those of us who don’t have the time to devote to special kinds of glue and die cuts and stickers and anything labeled acid-free. For those of us who want to make something beautiful, but don’t want to spend hours doing it.
I hope that you will join me here to share ideas and help inspire that lil’ creative bug that resides inside each and every one of us. Let’s see what kinds of cool things we can do together
