The internet is a funny place. The oddest things end up becoming smash hits, and the kookiest sites end up with passionate followings. The blog Waxy.org featured a post about the Top Ten Most Hated Things on the Web. At the top of the list was cilantro, the herb consisting of the leaves from the [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Promotional sites pick of the week: Hicks Design
Hicks Design
This is the self promotional site maintained by Jon and Leigh Hicks, of Hicks Design. They did the logo for Mozilla Firefox, which I think is cool, and it is for that reason that I checked out their site. I think the site does a fine job of promoting their business. The graphics are [...]
Printing grief
Save yourself lots of headaches on your next printing job by contacting the printer you plan to use BEFORE you begin, to get general parameters and advice on what they can and cannot print. Let’s face it, most projects get done just in time, and showing up on your printer’s door step a day later [...]
Big Shot
Last weekend I was at the Billy Joel concert in Toronto. I’ve been a big fan pretty much since I was born, and I’d never seen him live before last Friday. He put on a great show, of course.
What I thought was particularly interesting was that Billy Joel turned to the people sitting in the [...]
Scanning relief
If you have a bunch of small photos to scan on a flatbed scanner and have Photoshop CS or newer, here is a big time saver. Place as many as you can on the scanner while leaving some white space between them and scan them as one image. In Photoshop under the file menu choose [...]
