Posts Tagged ‘eco-safe’

Lazy Weekend

March 30th, 2008 jimcarter

This was a good weekend.  Val had off, we watched a bunch of movies, and I’ve gotten a lot of work done sofar.  I also bit the bullet and ran the Wordpress 2.5 update, re-configured all my plugins and installed the gravatar system for blog comments, works pretty sweet too.  If you havn’t setup a gravatar yet, jump over and set one up here.  Super simple and just makes life easy for blog posting.  The new WP is fantastic, no problems yet, and the new admin is killer.

Eco-Safe PDF’s are sexyier than evar.

I spent some time working and finessing the render process and now we’re generating the best looking PDF’s we can based on popular demand.  Give it a shot! Convert this post and let me know what you think. By the way if you’re using IE you won’t see the link to download a PDF since I’m having issues with compatibilty and it’s stupid popup blocker rules. You can however send a PDF to yourself.

 

New Toy: Sigma 10-22mm f4-5.6 Wideangle Lens

I finally broke down and bought a wideangle, this new baby is sweet.  I wanted if for our trip to Mexico in a week, but really looking forward to using it for the China trip in a month and a half.  After reading reviews and reviews, debating over this or the Canon 10-20mm, I realize that since I still don’t have a full-frame DSLR, it’s really not worth spending the extra money for anything more.  One of these days when I can justify popping another few grand for another camera, I suppose I’ll figure it out then.  I’m hoping sometime this week if I have the time to do a little photowalk and snap a few shots.  I need to put some usage in my Flickr account again.

I should be launching 2 of my most recent projects this week, stay tuned and I’ll be posting all the fun stuff in the next few days. In the meantime, Die Hard just came on A&E HD.  I know where I’ll be for the next two hours.  Heh.

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The Eco-Safe Foundation

March 26th, 2008 jimcarter

Eco-SafeSo here’s a little something that I’m really happy to announce, the public launch of Eco-Safe.com. My man Jason Schultz pulled me in on this project to help him develop out a really hot system we could pioneer off of the concept to bring environmental responsibility to the web. This project on like everything I work on with him has sofar been a hit, and it’s a real treat to see such a great success in just a few days of going live. Tim did an amazing job on the widget and the site was designed by Dave. Always a honor to work with these guys.

The site has gone through many revisions and we decided that the best way to rock this idea is wide-open and free. Anyone can jump on the site, grab the code to install the Merit Badge on their site (like you may have seen on the sidebar here), and you have sustainable options. You can Email the page to yourself, Send yourself a PDF of the page, or download the page as a PDF. Nice and simple, and doesn’t cost you the price of paper and ink. Give it a try below, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised how we managed to make it easier then printing to a PDF.

As of right now over 22K Merit Badges have been served up and in just a day and half over 200 people have chosen the Eco-Safe method of print 2.0 as I like to call it. Today a few big websites asked about installing the badge on their home. It’s taken off in the blogosphere as well, quite a few people have already put it on their blogs.. and thats just a couple.

I’ve also built a pretty extensive backend system for it that will soon offer a user to login, claim their domain, and show stats and reporting about which pages their users value enough to print 2.0 the pages. We figured this offers something you can’t even get with Google Analytics, and should be a big hit.

If you value things like this, I encourage you to install this badge on your site and embrace the fact that we need to all do what we can to protect the world we’re so badly abusing. I’m glad to say I was a part of this project, and looking forward to a lot more awesome ways of pushing the web to work for us in a new and unique way. Spread the word.

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