New Site Design

2009-02-16T22:21:00.001-08:00

Mumbo Media have rolled out a brand new website design, with an updated look, and features to allow visitors to really see what Mumbo Media has to offer.

Web design, and design in general has really come a long way since Mumbo Media first created a website. We\'ve always done our best to keep up-to-date, and evolve as new techniques become available. The new Mumbo Media site is a reflection of that.

We've endeavoured to strike a balance between a site that is simple and user friendly, while still showcasing a range of attractive design features. We've applied the same philosophy to this site that we do to all of our customer sites.

Please, have a look around and if you have any feedback, or suggestions, head over to our "Contact Us" page. If you are interested in having your media created by Mumbo Media, you can use the same contact form to get in touch.

Mac Attack

2008-05-02T23:39:00.000-07:00

Mumbo Media recently switched to using Apple Macs for the majority of its work. And now that we have, I am wondering why we didn't do it sooner!

The Mac experience is overall much more rewarding than using a PC. I can remember when I purchased my first PC - a Compaq Presario in 1996. It ran Windows 95, and I remember the amazement at how much it could do, but more than that, the amazement that it could do some things, but was apparently incapable of other (seemingly similar) tasks. I wondered why I needed to endure so much drama just to plug a printer in and get it to work. When I decided I no longer wanted an application (every little piece of my 600mb hard drive was precious!), I naively thought I should just delete the program and that would be it - oh, how I was wrong!

Over time I taught myself how to do things the PC way. I figured out I must use the "Add/Remove Programs" interface if I wanted to uninstall a program, and even then there would probably be some files left over I would need to manually delete. I learned to install peripheral devices and if I didn't want to repeat the process over and over again, I learned to make sure the device was turned on before I turned the computer on.

And I learned about freezing and crashes. Oh how I learned about freezing and crashes.

With each new version of Windows, I hoped some of these basics might have improved. They hadn't, and the only thing that really improved was the lower frequency of freezing and crashes. I've had over half a dozen PCs since that original Compaq, and they all served me well.

Then, late last year, I pulled the trigger and bought an Apple iMac. It is a brilliant machine, and so much more enjoyable and efficient to use than anything I have ever used before. When I plugged my printer in, it was instantly available for me to use. And then when I did print, the icon was actually a photo-realistic image of my printer! The first time I went to uninstall a program, I spent an hour looking for the "Add/Remove Programs" utility. After finally consulting the internet, I learned that I could just drag the application I wanted to get rid of to the trash!

It's not perfect, but it's damn close, and so many of the features are things I could never quite figure out why they were missing from Windows.