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Archive for December, 2005

Languages I Have Known

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Exploration of a different kind of multi-lingualism
At school, I spent 3 years studying German. Sorry Herr Niemann, but all I remember are the coffee and cake sessions, and I can now understand parts of German speech. I'd probably still get lost in Germany. In an effort to expand the brain a little, in 1990 Avril [...]

Music Buying Firsts

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

First Cassette Album: Tim Finn, Escapade
First Vinyl Album: The Living Enz, Split Enz
First CD Album: Conflicting Emotions, Split Enz
First iTunes Album: The Darkness, One Way Ticket To Hell ... and Back

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Movie: Kurt Cobain About a Son.

Photoshopped Magazine Covers

Sunday, December 18th, 2005

This is 100% true: How pictures are manipulated to make more appealing magazine covers.

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Adobe and Macromedia

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

Adobe purchases Macromedia. It took almost 9 months (from announcement to close) - and it feels like we've just given birth to a new company. Yesterday, Day 1, was a whirlwind of new products, people, processes, phonecalls and general excitement. Due to the strict laws in regards to mergers, it has been easier to let [...]

World is becoming Geekified

Sunday, December 4th, 2005

According to BusinessWeek, Generation @, rather than the so-derivative Generation Y, are the true digital generation.

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Quark to InDesign

Saturday, December 3rd, 2005

According to Adam Pratt, another one of those Adobe technical superheros, Markzware has released a plugin called Q2ID- to assist your move from legacy QuarkXpress to InDesign.

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