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The I'm Not Dead Link Cop Out
Uhhhhhm… whoops? Probably nobody else in the tubes would follow up two of their most linked up posts with almost two months of silence.
But quite a bit has happened in the last two months, such as starting a new job and my freelancing email account having a catastrophic fail right as I was attempting my return to freelance work. Suffice to say my routine was thrown into a tailspin, I spent too much time working on other projects (foreshadow!) and adjusting to a hell of a (temporary) commute.
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The Apps I Use
I’m pretty sure it’s borderline illegal for an Apple geek with a website to not write about the applications they use frequently, so here goes. And, since I always find myself recommending programs to friends when they make the switch now I can just point them here.
And since I’m a total voyeur when it comes to other people’s writing on what they’re using (or reading), I figured it’s only fair to turn the spotlight on myself. Just about all of these apps I use at least once a week, and I omitted the obvious such as iTunes, iPhoto, Calculator, TextEdit and Word. I broke my list down to three main functions; Communication, Utilities, and Development. Listed alphabetically since I’d be up all night trying to order them by any kind of rank.
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Cleveland, Meet Web Standards
It is my great pleasure to announce that the brand spankin’ new website for the Cleveland Web Standards Association is all systems go.
Handshakes, accolades and applause to Brad Dielman, who designed and coded (with a few tweaks here and there by me) our new home on the web.
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Five Good Habits to Learn for Quality Photoshopping
Getting started with Adobe Photoshop can be a pretty daunting task. Encountering all those pallettes, menus, filters and tools for the first time can be intimidating and downright frustrating.
Recently I realized that come August, I’ll have been working with Photoshop for 10 years (the sound you hear is my own horn tooting). In that time, it’s the one piece of software I’ve used consistently and have developed some rather good (and plenty bad) habits that might come in handy for people firing it up for the first time.
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Entry Level Designer Wanted, 3-5 Years Experience Necessary
A few days ago Greg Storey wrote a little something discussing the lack of available talent in the web design/development industry. To summarize, agencies and freelancers alike are swamped to the point of being “slightly crippled“, and there’s just not enough workers to go around.
Going by the reaction in the comments, and from some of my own friends in the web design world around Cleveland, this does seems to be the case. Overflow work abounds and it seems to be a good time to be an experienced web developer. But what if you’re not?