Envelopes – Specs and Specialty Printing
February 4, 2008
There are times when you need the specs for envelopes that are not on the USPS site. At those times, I head over to 4envelopes.com. This company will print and produce your envelopes as well, but i just like the convenience of having the specs for all these various envelopes available in one place.
Now here’s an excellent source when you need some specialty envelopes, the kind that mimic (or perhaps evoke) the look of real priority mail and private delivery services. Eagle imagery predominates. Envelopes.com.
Adobe Exchange
February 4, 2008
Adobe Exchange Beta is a great resource for actions, helpful code, easy-to-install extensions, time-saving functions, and more. A little time spent searching here can reap unexpected benefits. . .
Big Stock Photo
February 4, 2008
Here’s my favorite source for great low-cost stock photography, and isn’t that what we all want? You can also sell your own images for stock usage on their site. Sweet.
Infrared Photography by Eric Cheng
February 4, 2008
Eric Cheng maintains an excellent infrared site at
http://www.echeng.com/photo/infrared/
Stanford foothills (modified Coolpix 990, #87 filter)
Framing (and other) Options for your Photos
February 4, 2008
Here are a few great places to get your photography into high quality frames, as well as other professional presentation formats. Check them out. . .
Art to Frame
http://www.arttoframes.com/upload_and_frame
Mpix
http://www.mpix.com/
Digital Picture Printing Frames
http://www.digital-picture-printing-frames.com/
Moving from GoLive to Dreamweaver?
February 4, 2008
Migrating from GoLive to Dreamweaver is a series of video tutorials by Garrick Chow (from Lynda.com) hosted by Adobe.com. Go here to take advantage of this great free offer.
NASA beams Beatles’ “Across the Universe” to aliens
February 4, 2008
Words are flying out like
endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass
They slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow waves of joy
are drifting thorough my open mind
Possessing and caressing meJai guru deva om
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
John Lennon’s Across the Universe is being sent out towards Polaris, the North Star and you can watch this happen live and pretend you’re excited! Actually, I think this is one John would’ve enjoyed.
Note: Please forgive us for posting an article that uses the words “harmonic convergence” without irony.
LONDON (Reuters) Mon Feb 4, 2008 3:28pm GMT – An intergalactic celebration of The Beatles is launched on Monday with the beaming of their peace anthem “Across the Universe” into outer space.
The man behind the idea, which marks the 40th anniversary of the recording of the song in 1968, is an avid Beatles fan who has persuaded U.S. space agency NASA to kick off the party and now hopes to convert alien life forms to The Beatles.
“At the moment we are sending up Morse code as a way of contacting aliens,” Martin Lewis told BBC radio. “Maybe we should send them something a little more cheery.”
If all goes according to plan, NASA will transmit the Beatles tune via its deep space network at Midnight British time.
At exactly the same time, fans across the world are being asked to play “Across The Universe” in a bid to “create a harmonic convergence” around planet earth and throughout the universe.
According to a statement from NASA, the transmission will be aimed at the North Star, Polaris, which is 431 light years away from earth. The song will travel across the universe at a speed of 186,000 miles per second.
Former Beatle Paul McCartney, who beamed his first intergalactic concert to the International Space Station in 2005, congratulated NASA and asked them to pass on his regards to anyone else out there.
“Amazing! Well done, NASA!” he said in a statement released by the space agency. “Send my love to the aliens. All the best, Paul.”
Fans can watch the event online via the Web site www.acrosstheuniverseday.com.
(Reporting by Kate Kelland. Editing by Paul Casciato)
Digital Photography Review www.dpreview.com
February 4, 2008
One of the best places on the ‘net to get unbiased information on digital cameras. No place else goes into the level of detail that dpreview does, there’s also a forum for individual user comments.
Before you buy, check your choice, and the alternatives out at dpreview
Loupe.js – Add a Magnifying Glass to Web Images
February 4, 2008
You must check this out. At loupe.netzgesta.de Christian Effenberger has created a javascript-driven magnifying glass to selectively enlarge areas of your image and it is hellacious cool. It’s free for non-commercial and private sites and even if you’re not considering it for your web site, you should definitely check out their demos.
Loupe.js 1.3 allows you to add a loupe (magnifier) to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean.
It works in all the major browsers – Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, Safari and IE6+. On older browsers, it’ll degrade and your visitors won’t notice a thing.
Free Plug-in for InDesign: Autofit Type
February 4, 2008
I did come across an interesting, free plug-in cross-platform (Mac & Windows) called Autofit Type from a firm called Typéfi which might be very useful. Here’s the jist of it:
AutoFit Text Frame options control how a Text Frame is resized when text is inserted during page composition. AutoFit options are always active, this means that frames resize dynamically as content is added or removed from Text Frames. This dynamic resizing prevents text overset. Where AutoFit options are applied on a multiple column Text Frame, text will be balanced across all columns.
This tip is from Design Tools Monthly which is an incredible monthly newsletter that covers the world of design tech in easy-to-read digest format. And they’ve been doing it for 15 years now. They’ve also got a free weekly podcast that’s made up (mostly) of the material you pay a couple of hundred dollars a year to get in print form.