Little brass discs with a lot of legal weight In computing, the benchmark is a test run to determine the baseline performance of a component or system...
It looks like a 3, but it isn’t…A “lost” letter, it recently made news The yogh, in Lucida Grande As the English language came forward from its Old and Middle English origins, evolution occurred...
New contest deadline now 1 May, also open to Canadians Recently we reported that, in celebration of thier new API, OpenAPI, Mapquest called all masters of the mashup to battle; The Mapquest OpenAPI Developer’s Challenge seeks the most innovative mashup of the new OpenAPI–not merely plotting points on a map but delivering value over and above to a non-commerical audience...
CreativePro.com is reporting the Universal version of Adobe Photoshop will not be seen until CS3 is released in Spring 2007
CreativePro.com is reporting the Universal version of Adobe Photoshop will not be seen until CS3 is released in Spring 2007...
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At the end of 2005, Xara announced they would be releasing Open Source versions of their popular drawing application Xara Xtreme for Mac and Linux. That day has come...
A showcase for designers, new and old, to help them have more presence in the creative world Recently I came across a site called Fakecircus...
In four simple words, this t-shirt, a first from Playground of the Stars, makes a statement all graphic designers can jibe with. Thanks BoingBoing for pointing this out
No need to fear these Jaws: they bring PDF production under the XPress hood. One of the most praiseworthy additions to QuarkXPress 6...
Want a happy relationship with your printer? Follow the guidelines in the first of a series of articles about preflighting with InDesign...
Here’s how to make a grapevine in Illustrator, complete with winding tendrils of vine and juicy grapes! For this week’s How-To we’ll construct a grapevine in Adobe Illustrator...
This edition: A look into FontShop...
This edition: Experts not convinced on Mi Yo Tong Map; Extremely Small Scales; Google expands in a Big Way...
This free little duckie will help you waddle the FTP pond painlessly and graphically The Cyberduck Icon Are you using Mac OS X? Are you on dialup? Do you have poor connectivity...
There is nothing gimpy about this week’s robust Freeware Friday offering, GNU Image Manipulation Program, other than its nickname: The Gimp...
This week featuring two freeware downloads: Ghotscript and the ReplaceInPlace Xtension fror QuarkXPress I am seeing scripts… err… ghosts...
Liu Gang releases carbon-dating results of the so-called “1418/1763″ World Map, rebuts critics On Thursday, 23 March 2006 (Beijing time) Liu Gang, the Chinese attorney whose uncovering of a map that is reputed to prove the so-called Menzies conjecture, which claims that the Chinese mariner Zheng He circumnavigated the world almost 70 years before Columbus did, released the findings of a radiocarbon-dating analysis of the map to an invitation-only audience at The Bookworm, a cafe in the Sanlitun section of Shanghai...
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With Xara Xtreme’s Live Effects, you can use your Photoshop-compatible filters on both bitmaps and vectors; and because they are applied as Live Effects, they are completely editable and reversible...
Intended as a developer preview, is released for testing purposes only Statring today, the first developer previews of the next generation of Mozilla’s Firefox, codenamed “Bon Echo”, are available from Firefox’s Bon Echo site...
A fun new way to improve your artistic craft and garner some notice along the way. The 3 Thumbs Up badge, available for display from the site “Threethumbsupaward...
Traditional newspaper coverage is your local area. Are you using the Web to increase your reach? Your competitors just might be…
Training for both designers and printers will be available at the Ipex exibition The release of QuarkXPress 7 is near—at the Ipex Exhibition in Birmingham, UK, Quark will demonstrate their latest and yet-to-release version of their layout program, and will offer training for both designers and printers...
Are you ignoring the town next door? Newspapers live in the land of terra firma. Each newspaper primarily covers the communities it can reach, with a car and a print subscription...