Masuga Design, LLC

I just bought a MacBook Pro to take the place of both my G5 tower and my G4 iBook, and immediately had a problem installing PHP using the Universal Binary package from entropy.ch. I had transferred all of the files off of my G5 to the new MacBook using Apple’s very handy Migration Assistant, but that assistant will only go so far. The PHP installation I had got borked, so I had to head back to Marc Liyanage’s site to get the newest-Intel based package for install. The problem is, when you use a tool like the Migration Assistant, if …More »

Masuga Design has been listed in a recent design set entitled Super Clean – Part 2 over at Design Melt Down. Referring to this set of sites, they write: “This set of sites is not for the faint hearted, clicking through my result in vast discouragement as you realize some people really bring some serious game to the table. This set does nothing but inspire me to focus and work harder.”

As a new sole-proprietor, I had to get up to speed on exactly how to pay my taxes, and I found that I need to start paying estimated quarterly taxes, which I’ve never had to do up until now. I’m not at a point where I can afford an accountant so I was looking for some sort of easy (yeah, right!) solution on how to do this, and I actually found one. I’ve been using WebTurboTax to pay my taxes for years, and leave it to them to come up with a service geared for the estimated taxes crowd: estimatedtaxes.com. …More »

After a long weekend up north, followed by an East Coast road trip that took me through Ontario, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, I’m back in Grand Rapids and ready to get back to work. I guess you could say that by taking my iBook to make sure I had access to email, visiting a few of my East Coast clients (like casperelectronics and Bully Dog Bikes), and answering the phone a few times, that I never really stopped working. To some people, staying so connected while on vacation might be anathema, but when you really love what …More »