QuickGamma – Calibrate Your Monitor Free
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A while back, I made a post showing a free utility available for mac that was very comprehensive in calibrating a LCD screen. You can view that here. However, it was only available for Mac, QuickGamma is the nearest substitute for the estranged Windows users. I have not personally had a chance to test [...]
Grade/Score/Analyse Your Blog
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Whilst on twitter, I came across this nice little tool to help grade your blog via a tweet by Rutiso It then provides an analysis of your blog and outputs a score out of 100. It functions/looks vry similar to hubspot’s ever popular Website Grader.
The tool can be found here: http://blog.grader.com/
What is the best 22″ 24″ 28″ 30″ graphic design photography monitor
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Whilst searching the web for a comprehensive resource to help me to decide what monitor to buy, I came across this great thread on the AnandTech Forums:
Best Monitor for Purpose
The thread is segmented into different purposes you may require monitors for. Here is the section related to Design:
Clean Up and Speed Up Your Mac
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During my web travels I found this great article to help keep your Mac firing on all cylinders at the speeds we all need and love:
http://lifehacker.com/5252183/clean-up-and-revive-your-bloated-sluggish-mac
7 Things To Consider When Starting As A Freelance Designer
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Many just pick up and go when entering the freelancing world, but to ensure things go smoothly for everybody involved, there are a few considerations. Setting up a small studio, office or dedicated work area within your household; keeping the font police off your heels, invoicing and paying correct taxes etc are vital. Being a [...]
How to Calibrate Your Screen/Monitor for free
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Whilst surfing the web after buying my new Samsung T220 monitor, I was looking for a way to calibrate, as out of the box it was glaringly bright – great for movies etc – poor for design work. What I ran into was Supercal. Is a great tool, and after running a few test priints [...]
Speed Up Adobe Illustrator Performance
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Speed Up Adobe Illustrator Performance on Windows
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=320782&sliceId=1
Excerpt:
By configuring your system to run efficiently, you increase the amount of memory available to applications and ensure that they run smoothly. Increase the amount of memory available to Illustrator, quit applications you are not using, or disable nonessential startup applications or fonts to improve the performance of [...]
Read-Write: Use your NTFS Hard Drive with Your Mac
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Users running Mac OS X are often stumped when trying to write onto most external hard drive’s as normally they are bought, they usually come in the NTFS File System format which you can read the drive natively in Mac OS X but not write onto it. This is because this is the file system [...]
How to hide desktop items on a Mac – Use Camouflage!
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Came across this free great lightweight application to hide all desktop items on your Mac with the click of a button! No more clutter!
http://camouflage.en.softonic.com/mac
Do you have way too many items on your desktop? Do you hate cleaning up that mess? Camouflage is the right utility for you. It hides all the icons and leaves nothing [...]
How Do You Organise Yourself As A Freelance Designer?
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This is more of a search for ideas and methods than an informative article. No matter how often I tidy and plan ahead, my desk after about 2 weeks always seems to revert back to the same crazy chaotic mess that it does. Trying to give everything that I have to do/ handle organised is [...]
Great Custom Adobe CS3 Icon Packs
A list of high quality custom icon packs to replace the icons Adobe CS3 was shipped with!
How to translate a website – considerations
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Guest Writer: Tamara Bloom BSc, MSc
Localisation/translating your website/…
Do what with my website?
First things first, why would you want to translate your website? Half the world speaks English anyway, right? In today’s ‘globalised’ society, clients are increasingly outsourcing commissions abroad in search of the best provider. If potential customers cannot even understand your home [...]
Apr 12, 2009 | Categories: Commentary, SEO, Software, Web Design, usability | Tags: accessibility, SEO, translate, website | 1 Comment »