• InDesign Magazine Launches

    Cover: InDesign Magazine July/August 2004 (Premiere) Issue The inaugural issue of InDesign Magazine just hit, er, web-stands. This 48-page, PDF-only magazine from CreativePro.com and David Blatner is packed to the, uh, pixels with how-tos, why-fors, and what-nots. The table of contents reads like a who?s who among InDesign gurus. Editorial Director David Blatner is of…

  • Martha Stewart Sentenced to 5 Months

    NEW YORK (AP) — Friday July 16, 8:25 am PT — Domestic icon Martha Stewart was handed a prison term of just five months Friday for lying about a stock sale. After asking the judge for leniency, she emerged defiant from the courthouse to say she was being persecuted and declared, “I’ll be back.” “I’m…

  • Orbitz… And Go Nowhere!™

    Trying to book a flight and hotel room on Orbitz is un-fucking-believably painful. My reservations have been inprocess (and unconfirmed) for going on three hours now. After an informational dry run last night, I went to Orbitz early this afternoon to make my bookings. I went through the search, and, from the list of available…

  • Quark Relaxes Infamously Miserly Licensing

    Adobe, Macromedia, even Microsoft permits installing a single copy of their software on two computers for the use of one person without additional licensing fees. These “dual-system/single-user” licensing allows professional or power users to maintain copies of software on their work desktop computers as well as on laptops or home computers for out-of-office work without…

  • Quark: Educational Promotion for QuarkXPress

    Announced at the same time as its newly free Dual Licensing, Quark launched a special promotion for educators and students. The promotion will allow educational users to purchase QuarkXPress 6 software with maximum convenience at an affordable price. Accredited schools with course offerings that require QuarkXPress can also purchase the software in a deeply discounted…

  • Child Creates Video Game To Fight Cancer

    Make a Wish kid makes a game to fight cancer – Joystiq “ Ben is a 4th grade kid who had cancer. His doctor told him to visualize the disease going away, so Ben and his mom came up with the idea of using Pac-Man. This Pac-Man would run around inside him and eat the…