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Archive for July, 2004

Caffeine + InDesign = ?

Monday, July 12th, 2004

A good op-ed piece from Garry Barker, The Age. Based on an interview with one of Australia's leading Design gurus, Wayne Rankin. Design of the Time: using InDesign as a multi-media development tool. Wayne and Miek McHugh run Ultra Training, and are doing a series of training CDs for Adobe applications.
High on caffeine. [...]

Google, Lookout, PocketPC

Tuesday, July 6th, 2004

google motherload: Google Advanced Search Operators. Just like "photoshopping" images, googling for information is almost a verb.
There are two major applications I live in: Excel and Outlook. Lookout is a plugin/extension to Outlook that permits very fast, intelligent searching across your Outlook folders. This saves me many minutes per day.
Another recent addition to the [...]

InDesign Plugins

Friday, July 2nd, 2004

Thanks Andrew for spotting this: For InDesign 2.0 and CS: MultiDo: To celebrate the launch of EasyCatalog, we are offering a free plug-in that allows you to perform multiple undo or redo operations in one step using new undo multiple and redo multiple menu options. The menu will dynamically update to reflect the 100 most [...]