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There is a truly amazing free russian site that contains tons of logos for you to download in vector format. Originally it was known as logo.nino.ru, and now called as Brands of the World. Challange it, hard to find an international brand that's not featured. It's great when you're pitching for a business and don't want to use a low res logo for positioning or if you need to find a dozen sponsor logos and don't feel like calling them all up.

If you only want to see 3 days in the weekly view, press Apple-Alt-3. In fact you can press any number from 1-7 to customize the layout. Notice that the days shown in the main view will be highlighted in the small monthly calendar in the bottom left corner.

Thank you for your good habit of coming to CreativeBits! I have received some very positive feedback on my blog and it inspires me tremendously.

I would like to share some stats with you. I was positively surprised to see that CreativeBits receives a daily average of 1000 visitors. 69% are Mac users and 29% percent are Windows. 59% of the users surfing with Safari, IE6: 21%, Netscape 5: 13%, IE5: 4% and Opera 7 gets less then 1%. 30% of the users are on 1024x768 resolution, 1280x1024 gets 20% and 1280x854 is 11%. Here is a chart of the timezones:

Sometimes you need to enlarge images to extreme big sizes and you just can't get hold of any original that would have more details for your print. There is only one more important thing you can do, besides the things I've already discussed earlier: add noise. It might sound weird, but the fact is that in print it's more pleasant to the eye to see an image that has some texture even if it doesn't have sensible details rather than just big blurred patches of color.

When you press Apple-S (Apple-Shift-S) in most applications the Save As dialog pops up. You can easily navigate here by using the following shortcuts:

Desktop folder: Apple-D
Home folder: Apple-Shift-H
Move one level up: Apple-Arrow up

If you want to color code your messages in the Mail app just press Apple-Shift-C to bring up the color palette. Select any color and you're done.

Color management can be a very complex thing to understand and to implement. However, you don't necessarily need to dig deep into the subject to take advantage of this sophisticated technology right away.

First of all, do you need color management? If you're using a relatively small number of devices and they all work fine and you don't experience problems reproducing colors than the answer is no. However, if sometimes your scans on the monitor or prints on the paper don't match and you want total control over your colors in your system than read further.

After much consideration of your kind opinions about the layout of this web site, I decided to change very little for now. It's a known fact that PC monitors are a bit darker than Mac monitors, and some Windows users complained that the contrast of the type is too small on the dark gray background, however at least as many readers complimented on it, because it's easier on the eyes. I added the checkered stripes that compliment the theme of bits (pixels) and reminds me of Formula 1 decoration to emphasize that CreativeBits is all about speed and efficiency.

Since OS X is built on BSD you can run Unix programs on it. For example you can run the text based web browser Links. You can run Links in text only mode, so that browsing becomes extremely fast even on very slow connections. Use links to impress your girlfriend or to browse CreativeBits on the road with your bluetooth mobile connection. Download the 0.95 version for text only browsing.

When you click the Trash button on the layers palette PS will ask for a confirmation. If you want to skip the confirmation window, just press Option (Alt) when clicking the Trash to delete the selected layer instantly.