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Archive: 2006 September
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The oversold story
Tell me if you’ve been here before. You’re sitting in the Page One meeting and hearing about a photo/story package the paper has been working on all day...
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Adobe Reveals Little About Photoshop CS3 At PhotoshopWorld
So what did PhotoshopWorld attendees get to see of the upcoming Photoshop CS3? Not much, according to this AppleInsider report
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Adobe Reveals Little About Photoshop CS3 At PhotoshopWorld
It was revealed by AppleInsider back on 18 September 2006 that the “preview” of Photoshop CS3 at PhotoshopWorld in Las Vegas actually did not show any new features of the application: ‘During the Photoshop World keynote, Adobe’s Sr...
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Rare Map Thief Smiley Sentenced
Prison time reduced due to convicted’s cooperation Melissa Bailey, of the New Haven Independent, reports that E...
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Rand McNally Releases 2007 Road Atlas
Just announced and now available in bookstores and online Via email, Rand McNally have announced the release of thier 2007 edition Road Atlas. Priced at $13...
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Toward A Cleaner Desktop With A Self-Disinfecting Mouse
IOGEAR aims to protect users from bacteria with a mouse that sterilizes itself First they made the famous mouse-ball obsolete with lasers...
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I’m Bananas for Illustrator’s Gradient Mesh Tool
Illustrator’s Gradient Mesh lets you add shading you never though possible with a vector application. Here’s how to get started using it...
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Adobe Lightroom Beta Now Up To Version 4
Adobe Systems just announced that Lightroom has just advanced to beta version 4...
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Temple U Refines Pennypack Floodplain
Study refines and updates floodplain lines, bearing on home prices and ownership costs Updated Floodplain lines in Pennsyvania’s Pennypack Creek watershed (map excerpted from the one at the Philadelphia Inquirer)(click to enlarge) “God willing and the creek don’t rise”, goes a certain expression of hope passed on to us by our elders...
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FontLab Studio 5 by FontLab
Advanced tool unlocks OpenType, other features; usable, but definitely for the serious digital typefounder...
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CreativePro: Adobe to Let Dreamweaver Into The Suite
CS2.3 expected in November: upgrade paths available...
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Clearview Promises Road Sign Legibility
New font under interim approval by FHWA expected to replace “Highway Gothic” gradually, touts improved readablilty for senior drivers A freeway sign in Michigan demonstrates the readability of the new Clearview font...
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Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Goes On Line
Public-private partnership with the Boston (USA) Public Libraries aims to make maps available to all The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center of the Boston, Massachusetts, Public Library, debuted this week...
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InstantAtlas adds Adobe Flash to Geographic Reporting Suite
Flash added in anticipation of Adobe’s discontinuation of SVG Viewer: upgrade to be free for current users Press Release: EDINBURGH, UK – (www.directionsmag...
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Marie Tharp, Seafloor Mapping Pioneer, 1928-2006
Groundbreaking worked paved the way for modern view of seafloor; plate tectonics Marie Tharp, an oceanic cartographer whose maps of the seafloor paved the way for the modern view of the ocean’s bed thus paving the way for wide acceptance of the theories of plate tectonics and contiental drift, died of cancer on 23 August 2006, the Los Angeles Times has reported...
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Quark Vs InDesign Rolls Out New Look, Expanded Mission
The “Authority on The War Between The Publishing Giants™” introduces new current look, new future outlook Since 2002, wired desingers have known that the one place they can go to get the most meaningful news on the battle between the reigning DTP titans, Quark, Inc and Adobe Systems, has been through Pariah S...
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Photoshop Elements 5 Released
Adobe has released Photoshop Elements 5.0 for Windows...
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Photoshop Elements 5 Released
The latest version of Adobe Photoshop Elements is here. Adobe has released Photoshop Elements 5.0 for Windows (no Macintosh version yet)...
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“Do It Yourself” Logos
The best way of “doing yourself” in I was peacefully surfing the internet, in a moment of cyber relaxation...
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Compound Shapes, Compound Paths, and the Pathfinder Palette
Should you use Illustrator’s Object menu to create a compound path, or should you use the Pathfinder palette? Are they the same...
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Photoshop’s “Convert To Outlines” Command
Unlike InDesign and Illustrator, Photoshop does not have a “Convert To Outlines” command for outlining type in production situations…or does it...
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A Suggestion For A Better Middle East
Armed Forced Journal wonders aloud how the situation might be made better by altering borders It’s hardly original or insightful to note that of all the areas of planet Earth, the area we Westerners call the “Middle East” is one in which the political conditions are arguably the most fragile of the modern age...
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Foreign Mapmakers Held in Suspicion by P.R. China
Punishment promised for foreign cartographers Mapmakers collect geographic information; security-conscious nations are sometimes made nervous by this...
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Daily Mail: The EU Set to Re-Divide Europe?
Recently-published map stirs controversy; some see an “under the radar” attack on national sovereignity Kent in union with Calais? The West of England partnered with the Biscay coasts...
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Freeware Friday: LPS Scripting Utility
A scripting XTension for those sharing QuarkXPress files on a network Many QuarkXPress users, especially printers as they are most likely to move files through a network, will be familiar with this little but annoying problem...
