248creative is a visual communications company based in Troy, Michigan (Metro Detroit). We handle all aspects of the design and printing of our client’s custom promotional materials. From business cards to postcards and direct mailings to full color tshirts and wall tapestries, we can handle any project.

248creative also provides cutting edge multimedia services including videography, video-for-web and web design & development.

Get return on your investment, contact 248creative today to take control of your business’ image.

Visual communications is about more than design. It’s the entire foundation for your corporate identity. That identity is the gateway to customer trust and respect… the gateway to your bottom line.

248creative isn’t a simple design consultancy, it’s a network of experienced and innovative specialists, focused on pragmatic design and solid relationship building. We foster open communication with our clients, and as a team, create impacting visual campaigns and materials that deliver powerful results.

The difference between a world class image and a bypassed entry in the phone book is who you choose as your partner in the journey of building your brand. As one of the most progressive design firms in Oakland County, MIchigan, 248creative guarantees quality, ROI and wow factor.

We succeed because you succeed. It is the goal, the mission, the vision.
Perfection of process, product and presentation.

248creative Visual Communications is headquartered in the Liberty Building @ 100 W. Big Beaver Rd. Suite 200, Troy MI 48084. Our offices are open to the public, feel free to stop in any time and have a talk with a customization specialist to get your project off the ground.

The new media landscape has become murky waters to a lot of today’s small businesses. There is tremendous possibility to reach markets like never before, but the media consumers of today are more fickle than even a few years ago. Failing to hit the mark with your website or multimedia project can be a coffin nail to your image as a progressive, web savvy company.

Only a few years ago, it was considered a great new marketing dimension to have a corporate website. now, if you don’t have one, it’s an immediate hit to the credibility of your business in the eyes of your customers. The web 2.0 is rich, interactive and immersive. Embedded streaming video is the new black, carrying incredible weight with surfers and powerful technologies like RSS and pod casting can take your message to a whole new level of clients.

248creative has the equipment and people to deliver high-end web and video solutions that will dramatically impact your presence online. We develop pragmatically, using next generation frameworks and open source platforms to maximize your ROI while minimizing your overhead.

Web Design & Development • Web-Based Business Management & Invoicing Systems • Videography and Video-To-Web • CD/DVD Authoring and Duplication • Flash Development • Database Programming • Web Broadcasts • Podcasts • Digital Photography & Editing

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Grasp Studios, LLC is a progressive videography company that focuses on digital video and media content for the web, headed by Keith Christmas. We were excited about it from the beginning. Keith is a dynamic personality and we wanted to project that with his brand.

Grasp was a project of some scope, including:

• XML driven portfolio website with Flash navigation
• Full multi-user blog with syndication (rss)
• Established A Myspace presence
• Spot UV business cards
• Remixed resume layout
• PHP/MySQL driven business management system for invoicing and client tracking

As the geek of our shop, I spend alot of my time in front of the command prompt. As i’ve recently been delving more and more into the worlds of ruby AND python, i’ve been staring down the C: even more often than normal. It started to wear on me, I needed a change of scenery… what’s a geek to do?

Mess with registry, OBVIOUSLY. Just changing around the Defaults menu (by right clicking the title bar of an open prompt session) was entirely too easy.

This is just a quick little fix I stumbled over that takes a tiny bite out of the dullness of promptland. First, open your registry editor by clicking: Start>Run>Regedit then browse your way through the registry tree: HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Command Processor

There should be a couple entries in here, of interest to me were -

* CompletionChar – Character that turns autocomplete on. This is really useful for saving keystrokes while cruising through directories. I have it set to tab, cause why not?
* DefaultColor – Sets the color of the prompt text. It’s not RGB though, it’s a DOS control code color. Exciting. I’m not sure of all the options, so you’ll have to mess around a little yourself. My two favorites are 0000000e (orangy) and 0000000a (old school DOS green).

“Great!”, you say, “… but what about this horrible font?”. Yeah, for some reason Microsoft decided to limit font options for the prompt. It’s just not fair. Or is it? Yeah, there’s a registry key for that to. This time browse the registry editor to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE>Microsoft>Windows NT>CurrentVersion>Console>TrueTypeFont

In this key there should be an entry 0 with a value of “Lucide Console”. You can add more fonts to this list by adding an additional entry to the key, with an extra 0 and the value of the font you want to use. EXAMPLE – 00=verdana (thanks to Brian Duff for pointing this one out to me)

Another route alot of people seem happy with is to replace the conventional command prompt with cygwin, a kind of linux API emulator (for lack of a better term). If you’re interested in checking it out, head here.

Here are some other useful links relating to your friend, the command prompt:

Microsoft: Set the Command Processor Appearance in Windows XP
Command Prompt FAQ

Either way, if a few minutes messing around can make those long hours of cluttery prompt time more pleasant to your eyes, hook it up.