Introducing Slife 2.0, Time Tracking For Individuals And Teams

Slife Labs today introduced Slife 2.0, the next generation automatic time and activity management solution for the Mac OS X. Designed for individuals who need to keep track of time, such as designers and consultants, Slife frees users from having to manually fill out time sheets and manage their productivity. Slife Teams, a subscription-based web […]

Stockphoto Announces Second Annual Punctum Day Awards

iStockphoto® announced the categories for its second annual Punctum Day Awards on August 19 to celebrate creative excellence. Punctum is the strong emotional reaction you have to a stunning image and August 19 was chosen because that day in 1839 was the day that Louis Daguerre first introduced the camera. With prizes totaling $40,000, member […]

KoffeePhoto Adds Online Photo Backup Service

KoffeeWare today announced an extension to the KoffeePhoto photo sharing service with the introduction of KoffeePhoto Premium, an online photo backup service as a paying option. Digital photography is great for its flexibility. But when it comes to make sure it resists time, specific measures need to be taken as digital photos are a compilation […]

Scanning Around With Gene: The Horse and Buggy Printer

Type designers and graphic artists tend to fall into two categories. You either like ornate old typefaces or hate them. I’m a big fan — the more ornate and over the top the better. So it was a terrific find when I came across a box of original Solotype catalogs, brochures, and other promotional material. […]

Preventing 4-color Blacks in PDFs

An old student of mine named Mark e-mailed me yesterday, worried that the 2-color newsletter he just sent off to his commercial printer as a PDF would have the same problem as the prior issue he sent them: The 100% black elements, including all the text, had separated out to a mix of the four process colors.

Mark guessed that the cause was that he “had somehow changed the Preference setting for ‘Appearance of Black:'”

Digital Asset Management Products Lacking Key Enterprise Features

Despite intense needs among broadcasters, advertising agencies and other brand-focused enterprises to manage graphics, video, and audio through complex, enterprise-wide business processes, most Digital Asset Management (DAM) technology fails to meet customer requirements for workflow and rights management, according to research recently released by CMS Watch, a vendor-independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies. These […]

Flashforward2008 Keynotes Pogacnik, Carson and McCloud Join Conference Line-Up

The Flashforward Conference and Film Festival announces three keynote speakers for the August 20-22, 2008 conference taking place in San Francisco at the Nob Hill Masonic Center. Joining the current line-up are three diverse speakers and a roster of industry leaders bringing fresh creative perspectives to the conference and rounding out the educational presentations with […]

TypeTalk: Make Microsoft Word Do Your Bidding

TypeTalk is a regular blog on typography. Post your questions and comments by clicking on the Comments icon above. If Ilene answers your question in the blog, you’ll receive one Official Creativepro.com T-Shirt! Q. I’m frustrated with the way Microsoft Word selects groups of words and whole sentences when I want to select only a […]

Use New Window to Hide Your Selections

Lee wrote:

Sometimes I like to use ‘undo’ to compare the difference between two ideas. The problem I have with this is that the currently selected object is always highlighted — at times, this can be distracting when trying to see how things look. Is there any way of hiding the selection?

I’ve wished for a “hide selection” feature in InDesign for years, but so far, no go. There is, however, a reasonable alternative: New Window. We’ve talked about New Window in passing during podcasts and in a few posts, but I want to emphasize the wonderful power of this feature. New Window (which you can find by choosing Window > Arrange > New Window) lets you get a new view on the same document…