Rigler Digital Blog

I’ve finally put a vid together for Rigler Digital Media TV on Youtube.  For any company or artist you need to participate for your website to be a success.  Even if you were manufacturing paperclips, social media would give you and edge over the next guy.  Enjoy my first video.

Weighing in at 1.5 lbs with a 9.7in display Apple revealed the iPad at the keynote January 27, 2010 – I was like another money making product from Apple and does anyone really need this.  Yes I was skeptical.  So I’ve taken some time and researched it’s benefits a bit and can only think of 3 major benefits to me.

1. Reading digital books, magazines.  Finally I will be able to read local newspapers and e-books.  Have you tried reading them on your iphone yet? It’s not easy.

2. The Maps application looks so good.  Again instead of a small GPS screen you could have your ipad sitting on the seat next to you with a nice big map pointing you in the right direction.

3. Memory and battery life. The iPad has a 10 hour battery life, nuff said. (See my earlier posts on the iphone)

Will I rush out to buy this? Not at this time but I am sure I will see a lot of users hitting the local coffee shops with their new ipads surfing.

Happy New Year.  2010 is here and we are not living in a space station somewhere.  Or for that matter we are not driving rocket ships to work ala The Jetsons.  However, we do have amazing technologies developing with the internet mobile apps and broadband.  Isn’t the new year the best time to register your business name or latest passion.  I thought I would start the new year off right with a shameless plug for 3 easy steps to register a domain name with Rigler Digital.

Step 1:  Type in the name you want in the search box.

Step 2: Choose the TLD (top-level domain) you want.  For example:  .com .net .tv and more…

Step 3: Fill out your proper contact  info.

Now you can register your dreams and have a successful 2010.

As the year draws to an end, here’s a boost of Cinema4D inspiration.  Cinema4Duser.com is a great resource to Cinema 4D users. The site offers a gallery, tutorials, feature downloads and feature tips.  The site is amazing clean, laid out beautifully–but hold on it hasn’t been updated since 2007.  Unfortunately not enough submissions were received to keep the site going.  Please check out the site and contact the owners at UniversalHead . If we all rally around this site perhaps we can encourage them to keep it active and updated.  Hope everyone has a Happy New Year.

Great Site for Final Cut Pro Tutorials

FinalCutKing.com is run by Zach King. Zach has many video tutorials playing there on Vimeo. The quality is very high and the videos move at a good pace. The frame of the video is filled by the entire Final Cut Pro program and he zooms in when need so we can see the numbers and settings.  Also, if you like what he has he offers DVD’s for sale as well to help with learning the program.
The other site YouthDesigner.com has a tutorial on creating grass in Cinema4D.  Not a video but very clean screen shots, moving step by step.  I was always stumped by creating grass before so for me this was a terrific find.  I should really post some old screen shots of my attempts at this.  Now all I need to do is animate each blade of grass.  Hmm not today.

Here’s one I’m looking forward to seeing. Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr. Yes. He’s one of my favorite actors and with Rachel McAdams Guy Ritchie directing not a movie to miss. To me it’s similar to the remake of the Batman franchise with Nolan. It looks dark and modern. Real humor not staged or forced in previous PBS versions of Sherlock. Enjoy. Hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving Day.

I’ve blogged about it before but it has become a deafening noise on the internet.  Your social media status.  Work is key.  You can’t just blog a few articles and then think “hey how come I’m not making any money from my Google adsense account?”  The work called for is participation and sincerity. Truly care about your followers.  RT @ back atcha.  Give an honest opinion/voice.  I would say be open and be yourself.  Have you tweeted today, thanked a follower, written on yours or anyone’s wall.  Get crackin, life’s short. This post was completely inspired by Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibraryTV fame. WMFYMQP26DUK

We are supporters of the Joomla Content Management System.  One of the best places on the web to learn more about Joomla is Joomlashack.  They have books and online tutorials and have re-opened enrollment to Joomlashack University.  They offer video screencasts, questions answered in forum by Joomla experts.  There is a 6-month subscription available for $147.  Not too shabby.  I actually like Barrie North’s book “Joomla: A User’s Guide”.  The site without the subscription is a resource.  Joomlashack itself has numerous templates to help you solve your clients needs.  The benefit again of a CMS it your clients can make smaller changes themselves, changing text adding new photos.  Blogs also are on the same CMS type interface.

Domain tip of the week:  Put the product name you are selling in the domain name.  This will help with search engines.
for example: www.radios4sale.com if you were selling radios.

For more information on Jeff Rigler and his domain registration and web hosting company, visit: Rigler Digital.

I needed an intel based Mac to work on some mobile applications so I bought a new one.   What I didn’t expect was what a powerful program the iMovie 09 is.  With iMovie 09 there are many more transitions and title options.  The event library gives it a familiar feel to the browser in Final Cut Pro.  Also, you are able to choose themes with animated graphics, comics, globes and travel theme for all of your travel videos.

Armed with this new program.  I created our Rigler Digital Domain Registration Web Hosting Promo.  Enjoy.

When I started blogging again this year; I made a firm resolution to blog consistently, listing sites to give insight into digital work.  Unfortunately, I fell off the blogging wagon – hard.  Shavaun and I have re-tooled our main site Rigler Digital to promote our hosting and domain registration services.  As artists we continue to design websites, and do animation for the web but our main focus will lie in hosting and domains.

Tips for registering your domain keep it short.  Instead of registering mymegahugebusinesscompany.com try baboo.com or something short.  It can be nonsensical.  For artists, use your name in the domain.  Think of it as a way of branding yourself and artwork.  Don’t be shy.  Of course then promotion begins on all of the sites like facebook, twitter, and youtube.