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Archive for November, 2003

Bush’s Goons Wreck Queen’s Bushes

Monday, November 24th, 2003

Queen's fury as Bush goons wreck garden. "The Palace's head gardener, Mark Lane, was reported to be in tears when he saw the scale of the damage."

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ROI on MBA
1968
Movie: Kurt Cobain About a Son.

Photoshop CS Techniques

Saturday, November 22nd, 2003

Shadow/Highlight command vs. Selections/Curves Technique in Photoshop CS
Thanks Cari! Pantheon

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InDesign CS from a QuarkXpress perspective

Wednesday, November 19th, 2003

InDesign CS Review by a Quark User
I've never been a fan of Powerpoint. I create my presentations in InDesign. The new Story Editor feature in InDesign CS is a god-send for organising throughts prior to layout.

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Melbourne InDesign User’s Group

Tuesday, November 11th, 2003

In Melbourne? An InDesign user? Melbourne InDesign User Group
Phew. Exams over. Now the waiting for the results.

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Going Pear Shaped

Monday, November 10th, 2003

Going Pear Shaped - wonderful cockney phrase popularised by The Bill is now regularly heard on Australian TV. Its gone all pear shaped, guvn'r!

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Photoshop and Memory

Sunday, November 9th, 2003

Photoshop Performance Tests: 512Mb to 8Gb of RAM. Moral of the story. Get lotsa RAM and the fastest computer that you can afford.

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A Surprise in InDesigns

Tuesday, November 4th, 2003

A surprise in InDesign 2.0, InDesign CS and InDesign CS2.

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Creative Suite Roadshows

Monday, November 3rd, 2003

Wow! We've just been through the Creative Suite Roadshow demos. There's going to be a little bit of fun sprinkled into a whole lotta content. Each application has so much new "stuff" it is becoming difficult to filter out what we are going to show. Roll on Canberra on Thursday.
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