Creative Community Bulletin On 25 March 2010 (10:41 to 12:35)

These are the arti­cles, blogs, and resources I found inter­est­ing and wor­thy of shar­ing for 25 March 2010 from 10:41 to 12:35:

  • The Twitter Top 10 Tool List – 5.) The Insomniac – This is the crack addict that you can count on to enter­tain you at 3am when you can’t get back to sleep after hav­ing a mid­dle of the night pee ses­sion. These peeps are all revved up and full of con­ver­sa­tion about life, love
  • A Brief Look at Grid-Based Layouts in Web Design – “The grid sys­tem is an aid, not a guar­an­tee. It per­mits a num­ber of pos­si­ble uses and each design­er can look for a solu­tion appro­pri­ate to his per­son­al style. But one must learn how to use the grid
  • Star Wars reshot by ama­teurs, scene by scene – Hello! You and 472 oth­er peo­ple have the chance to recre­ate Star Wars: A New Hope. Below is the entire movie split up into 15 sec­ond clips. Click on one of the scenes to claim it, film it, and upload it. You can have up to three scenes! When we’re all done, we’ll stitch it all togeth­er and watch the mag­ic happen!
  • The Mac Hacker Strikes Again (via @idguy) – That haul of secu­ri­ty bugs is a record even for Miller, who over the last four years has become per­haps the world’s most promi­nent Mac hack­er. It may also be the most defin­i­tive proof yet that Apple devices aren’t safe “right out of the box,” as the com­pa­ny has claimed for years
  • 95 Old School Games You Can Play Online – Remember the clas­sic video games? The 8‑bit mas­ter­pieces of our sweaty-palmed youth. Inviting some friends over for a Maniac Mansion all-nighter, huff­ing asth­mat­i­cal­ly into a car­tridge to clear out the dust, or the thrill and crush­ing dis­ap­point­ment of res­cu­ing a princess, only to dis­cov­er you’ve real­ly just saved a fungus.
  • Help, my client is try­ing to cheat me! – Designers read­ing the above title are think­ing of a par­tic­u­lar client in their heads right now. Someone, some­where at some time is going to try to get over on you the busi­ness own­er. It’s almost like an entre­pre­neur­ial ini­ti­a­tion! Nevertheless, a client try­ing to swin­dle you is not only unfair, but can frus­trate and dis­cour­age you. How does a self-respecting, kind-hearted entre­pre­neur com­bat this?
    I have a few clients that have treat­ed me unfair­ly. Standing me up for con­sul­ta­tions, not pay­ing on time or at all, and some­times say­ing or doing things that I felt were inap­pro­pri­ate. When that hap­pens, the first reac­tion is to call them up and tell them just where to go … (we’ve all had those fan­tasies of telling off those annoy­ing clients). But a good busi­ness own­er under­stands the impor­tance of cus­tomer ser­vice and dealing…
  • CamTwist, Special Effects for Webcams and Video Chat – CamTwist is a soft­ware pack­age that lets you add spe­cial effects to your video chats. It’s also pos­si­ble to stream your desk­top and still images. With CamTwist, you can also use mul­ti­ple video chat pro­grams at the same time.
  • Add Dynamic Lighting to a Flat Photograph – In this tuto­r­i­al, I will show you how to spice up a fair­ly dull and flat pho­to­graph. It’s very easy and fast! Go from flat pho­to to a unique­ly lit style.
  • BOOK REVIEW: Friends With Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook – Darren Barefoot and Julie Szabo’s Friends With Benefits is one of many books on the mar­ket about “social media,” that mish­mash of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and oth­er web­sites that con­nect us and our per­son­al con­tent. I’ve reviewed sev­er­al books about social media and Friends With Benefits was a sur­pris­ing stand­out for its blend of research and insight.
  • Calling Type Lovers Under 30 – If you show achieve­ment and promise in the field of typog­ra­phy, and you’re under 30, you may win the Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) Catalyst Award
  • 5 Steps To Seduce Any Woman On Facebook (via @MayhemStudios) LOL – 1. Leave A Passive-Aggressive Comment On Her Relationship Status When She Announces She’s Single.

    Finally! After years of dat­ing a guy you know you’re bet­ter than, she’s bro­ken it off.

    Now it’s time to strike.

    DON’T: Tell her you total­ly want to do her and you’ve been wait­ing for this for years.

    DON’T: Tell her you’re nude.

    DO: Like the Status. Write Welcome to the sin­gles club! Trust me! So much fun!

    Then die a lit­tle inside.

  • Why women stay sin­gle – (view­ers dis­cre­tion advised) –
  • 30 years after ‘Empire,’ Boba Fett strikes back in a big way – USATODAY​.com – The upcom­ing 30th anniver­sary of The Empire Strikes Back is turn­ing into a fête for Fett.

    Boba Fett, the galaxy’s most fear­some boun­ty hunter, was just a sup­port­ing char­ac­ter in the originalStar Wars sequel, but his cult-favorite sta­tus has placed the masked mer­ce­nary at cen­ter stage in plans to com­mem­o­rate the movie, which opened May 21, 1980.