These are the articles, blogs, and resources I found interesting and worthy of sharing for 26 April 2009 through 27 April 2009:
- Chuck Green’s Amazon Blog: Do you use Adobe InDesign? Be sure to read this. Permalink – It is easy to underestimate the dimensions of the communities that exist to support and promote individual software products. I created a Twitter page in March to share tidbits about InDesign (Adobe’s desktop publishing program) and, in doing so, have met hundreds (on Twitter alone) who have a similar interest in its workings.
- Arbenting’s Weekly Inspiration and Best of the Web #2 | Arbenting – Arbenting combines the weekly web of inspiration and the best of the week into Arbenting’s Weekly Inspiration and Best of the Web.
- Creating Different Elemental Effects — Gurus Unleashed – We have seen the beautiful Water Man effect from Nik Ainley. This tutorial will show the basics on how to get close to that effect. Also we will be making a fire and earth version using the same techniques.
- ‘Golden Girls’ star Bea Arthur dies at 86 – Beatrice Arthur, the tall, deep-voiced actress whose razor-sharp delivery of comedy lines made her a TV star in the hit shows “Maude” and “The Golden Girls” and who won a Tony Award for the musical “Mame,” died Saturday. She was 86.
Arthur died peacefully at her Los Angeles home with her family at her side, family spokesman Dan Watt said. She had cancer, Watt said, declining to give further details.
“She was a brilliant and witty woman,” said Watt, who was Arthur’s personal assistant for six years. “Bea will always have a special place in my heart.”
- Google Search circa 2084 – I hope this won’t happen:) – ReflectionOf.Me –
- Top Ten CD Cover Design Tips : Cover Art setup and Design | Andrew Kelsall | Graphic Designer | Logo, Poster and Large-Format Print Design – Here are my Top Ten CD Cover Design Tips in order of design process. This article is written for an intermediate Photoshop/Illustrator user and upwards, focusing on the technical side of things, so here goes…
- Unfortunate last names – For some time, I’ve noticed that some people have last names that seem inappropriate, ironic, and/or just plain funny given the companies that employ them.
- Windows 7 wallpapers – Some Cool Wallpapers Here! – Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 includes 30 new desktop wallpapers. This selections hopes everyone will find one that fits ones taste. Which one would you choose?
- 5 Creative Ways to Hack Your Facebook Profile Photo – There isn’t a legal way to ‘hack’ Facebook, but there is a method to changing your profile photo to make your profile look subtly different and cooler. It isn’t obvious, but the placement of a profile photo allows you to lightly innovate on Facebook’s sacred profile layout.
- Why Email Clients Need to Change – If inboxes don’t fundamentally change in order to adapt to their new role as the keeper of myriad transactions across the entire web, they’ll be obsolete.
- Troys: One Twitter Script to Rule Them All – Excellent Firefox GreaseMonkey script to provide numerous enhancements to Twitter UI.