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When I switched to mac, I did so with equal amounts excitement and reluctance. I’ve grown familiar with my windows-only software, and as a web designer, it would be irresponsible to completely ditch Windows and IE (as much as I wish I could). Inevitably, I made a Windows XP partition, and came to hate the added clutter on my desktop due to the (NTFS formatted) XP drive showing on my desktop. I have no reason for it to be there, so why would I want it to mount? Sure, you could just unmount it on startup, but that’s just an extra step on startup, and I don’t know about you, but that just makes me feel like I’m back to Windows. Knowing that OS X was based on BSD/UNIX, I knew I had a tool available to me to help clear my desktop: fstab.
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Most users of OS X Leopard are familiar with Time Machine, the comprehensive backup utility that makes keeping your critical files safe as easy as flipping a switch. When I first got my Mac, I decided the 300GB hard drive from my old computer would make a perfect Time Machine drive. Little did I know how quickly TM would chew through its space (about 2.5 months, if you’re wondering). It didn’t take long for me to decide “you know what? I don’t need to backup EVERYTHING.”
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I’m now writing for the Goodtree & Company (aka GAC) blog. I’ll be writing on subjects such as design, blogging, web 2.0, and more. Any relevant posts I’ll mirror here as well! And yes, I’ll still be writing here!
Check out the Goodtree & Company blog here.
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So CSS can be a bit frustrating from time to time. While working on the reskin of this site, one problem I kept running into was the css attribute “min-height” wasn’t always working. How did I get around it? With a little help from
Grey Wyvern (who just so happens to be the #1 Google result for “div min-height”).
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I made a new skin and went ahead and launched it. Everything works, though you’ll probably be noticing some heavy changes over the next few days as I tweak out the final details.
Please, let me know what ya’ll think below! Comments, criticisms, browser-incompatibilities, etc. Thanks!
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So if you haven’t noticed, I don’t really update all that much.
That’s mainly because I have a pile of stuff to write about, and I don’t know where to start!
So I’m leaving it up to you guys. What do you want to read here? Photoshop tutorials? Photographic Effects? Text Effects? 3D Studio MAX Tutorials? Illustrator? Linux? Or more articles like “9 More Rules to Designing a Logo?”
Also, I’m thinking of splitting this blog into two separate blogs- one for Linux, and another for design-related stuff. I don’t really post linux stuff all that much, but I wonder if I should give it its own space. On one hand, I think knowing Linux is vital to any serious web designer (and that’s why it fits here), on the other hand, I don’t want to alienate any non-web designers that visit here.
What do you think? Please, let me know!
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While my
last article, which linked to
Hal’s blog focused on logo design from a client’s standpoint (what to look for in a logo), today’s post focuses on what to do when you, the designer, are creating the logo. Some of these I’ve learned in school, some of these I learned from others, but all of these “rules” I at one point disregarded until I learned again- first hand- how important they are, and why I was taught them in the first place.
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One of my clients is a copywriter, and has worked in the industry for a damn long time. Well, he runs a blog of his own, and has written up a very good guide on logo design.
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So you just installed your recommended windows update like a good little computer user, and now windows asks if you want to reboot. You answer “no, I’ll do it later” and the window goes away…for now. But sure enough, you’re in the middle of doing some work, and it comes up again. I can’t tell you how many times this has caused a zoom in 3D Studio Max or creating a path in Photoshop to mess up. For me (and I’m sure many users out there), it has become enough for me to sacrifice my system’s security and tell it not to install the update at all. After all, that little yellow shield never does anything but sit there…it’s much more friendly than the alternative. But no more! With just 3 clicks, you can prevent it from showing up until you decide to reboot on your own.
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I saw this on Digg’s upcoming stories today:
Totally complete sources.list for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, and felt a chill of terror. Visions of masses of users new to Ubuntu (and Linux in general), downloading this sources.list and using it, watching their computers melt, and blaming Linux overwhelmed my poor little brain.
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