Archive for August, 2007
The Native Drummer
Monday, August 13th, 2007
How do you prepare for your work week?
Monday, August 13th, 2007
How do you prepare for you up-in-coming work wee during the weekends?
Do you note things down?
Do you incorporate ideas with your colleagues?
Doodling is one of my favorites…do you doodle too?
Post your ideas, help a fellow who is blocked unblock themselves 
How to create eye catching advertisement and great customer service.
Monday, August 13th, 2007
Creating an ad that’ll catch the customers attention is sometimes a difficult task. Simply because many of the ads are either annoying or just not legible to understand, so people get ticked off and go on to the next option.
A great solution to this dilemma is to communicate with your advertising design team, your marketing analyst and your customer service team. Now here’s a thing, people say “My Customer Service Team?” , I say yes, they’re part of your marketing and advertising also. If your customer service is not making the people feel happy/comfortable the there is no customer to service the next time around.
Problogger.com New Look
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Don’t sleep on the new look!
Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.com has released his new and powerful logo and very sleek and eyecatching design.
Incase you didn’t notice, we did a change in look aswell - we’re still working on the new logo though 
Halloween - Directed by Rob Zombie
Thursday, August 9th, 2007I can’t explain on how excited I am to find out that Rob Zombie has directed his version of one of the greatest horror movies in my time…“HALLOWEEN”.
I remember while growning up in the 80’s, my uncles would try and scare me with the mask and costume during Halloween. Both of them would dress up in the overalls and walk around town with the white face mask just to catch attention…and sometimes frighten the neighbors. LOL…enough of that! I just cant wait to see how far Rob has taken this all time classic horror flick, like he did in the Devil’s Rejects and House of 1000 Corpses.
Indesign Tip of the week
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
View Image Scaling with a Shortcut
Assign keyboard shortcuts to Select Container and Select
Contents (Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts > Product Area: Object
Menu). Now when you have an image frame selected with
the Selection tool, you can quickly see the image’s true scaling
amount in the Control palette’s Scale fields by using the shortcut
for Select Contents. Press the shortcut for Select Container to
get back to where you started.
Tip provided by: InDesign Magazine
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Adobe Illustrator CS3 Tip – Kuler than Cool Color.
Thursday, August 9th, 2007Layers magazine Tip of the Day - By: Jeff Witchel
In a previous tip, I discussed “knowhow,” one the panels found under the Window menu > Adobe Labs. The second Adobe Labs panel, found in the same submenu, is called kuler, which is a feed from Adobe’s kuler website. Kuler is an amazing website community that’s a great resource for color exploration, inspiration, and experimentation, as well as sharing of color combinations with other members ? http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/kuler If you’ve used Live Color, you’re already familiar with many of the kuler tools.
Any of the color combinations listed in the kuler panel in Illustrator (highest rated, newest, most popular) can be saved to your Swatches panel as a Color Group simply by clicking the Swatches button at the bottom of the panel. You can also join the website to participate in the kuler community and download your favorite color combinations to load into Illustrator, InDesign and other Creative Suite applications.
Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Adobe® Certified Training Provider.
California software pirates fined & sentenced
Thursday, August 9th, 2007In what the federal government called the “largest CD and DVD pirating scheme to be prosecuted in the United States,” two men were fined and sentenced to federal prison terms this week.
Ye Teng Wen, also known as Michael Wen, and Hao He, also known as Kevin He, both of Union City, Calif., were sentenced to 37 months in federal prison, three years of supervised release, a $125,000 fine and a $500 mandatory special assessment. On June 4, a third man, Yaobin Zhai, also known as Ben Zhai, of Fremont, Calif., received the same sentence but was ordered to pay $6.9 million in restitution. (more…)
Shipping and Handling…What It Costs you?
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007Seth Godin points out the do’s and do-not’s on shipping and handling!
