2010 January

Interesting, share-worthy links 09 July 2009 through 28 January 2010.

Courier: First Details of Microsoft's Secret Tablet

It feels like the whole world is hold­ing its breath for the Apple tablet. But maybe we’ve all been dream­ing about the wrong device. This is Courier, Microsoft’s aston­ish­ing take on the tablet.

Courier

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Fantastic com­par­isons from a fel­low fan of both applications.

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pS Magnets

Looking for some fun new mag­nets that also dis­play your geeky side? The newly  updated Photoshop Magnet Kit from Meninos includes new ver­sions of all the menus, palettes, brushes, lay­ers and more. There are 13 Magnets in all and each one

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Macworld UK:

Quark has announced spe­cial offers that allow eli­gi­ble print­ers to join Quark out­put provider pro­grammes at no cost…

This install­ment of the col­umn ranges from extras you can use every day (Photoshop brushes and paper tex­tures) to the more eso­teric (build word clouds from InDesign files, or turn a Web site into a desk­top app). But as usual, every­thing is free!

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Do NOT upgrade to Seesmic Desktop 0.7. If you already have, and regret it, this arti­cle includes a down­load link to ver­sion 0.6.3 beta 2 (the ver­sion imme­di­ately prior to 0.7) so that you can down­grade to a user-friendly

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Love is in the air, and soon it will be on your mon­i­tor. Just down­load these free love-themed fonts, pho­tos, Photoshop brushes, and color palettes and patterns.

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Enjoy free snowy Photoshop brushes, col­or­ful Twitter themes, InDesign data merge help, out­door photo shoot help, design cri­tiques, and an icon converter.

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Whatever win­ter event you’re design­ing for, you’ll want these free fonts, clip art, stock pho­tos, and WordPress and Blogger templates.

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One free online tool lets you eas­ily extract col­ors from images and share them. Another resizes, renames, and con­vert fold­ers full of images. I also have lots of free Photoshop brushes and fonts — everyone’s favorites!

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Turn your hand­writ­ing into a font, get pho­tos, add a store to a Web site, keep track of key­board short­cuts, and add car­toon bub­bles to Photoshop files. And as always, all for free!

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This large assort­ment of free down­load­able tex­tures includes paper, wood, bricks, grass, fab­ric, and more.

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Summer has offi­cially given way to fall, and in the north­ern hemi­sphere, that means it’s har­vest time. Fill your bas­ket with this delec­table sam­pling of free tools, fonts, and services.

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Halloween in August? It’s not too early to start think­ing spooky, espe­cially if you’ll be send­ing out Halloween-themed projects to a printer.

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Be free with Web 2.0 Photoshop layer styles; fire and flame tex­tures and back­grounds; an InDesign image library plug-in; easy sched­uled emails; and a ser­vice that dis­plays a Web design in 90 dif­fer­ent browsers.

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In this all-Web install­ment, you’ll get a mas­sive Photoshop Web ele­ments kit; thou­sands of Twitter, RSS, and UI icons; CSS com­pres­sion; Website spell check­ing; ana­lyt­ics; and uptime mon­i­tor­ing — all free!

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Two serv­ings of our free­bies col­umn in one month? Don’t worry, there’s no such thing as overindul­gence when you’re talk­ing about free pho­tos, tex­tures, icons, cheat­sheets, or Photoshop brushes. Dig in!

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