Aperture arrived at stores across the country yesterday, and today, I got my very own copy!
It looks very good, runs fast, ooh yeah and I got it to work on my “old” Power Mac (by my definition, ...
I frequently refer to the date and time in the menubar. I was looking for the option to put the date next to time, so that I can avoid clicking the date to bring up the drop-down menu which shows the date. There is no easy straightforward way, but I found a small trick that enables me to customize the field fully without much interference to the system. See the example of my menubar above.
First you have to open System Preferences/ International and choose the Formats tab. If you click customize at Times you will find several formats of time that can be customized: short, medium, ...
Jennifer from the Photoshop blog recommends a great set of brushes for the upcoming Christmas jobs you will surely be getting.
The Snow & Flakes Brush Set contains 10 individual brushes and is a real winter wonderland of snowy images, featuring icy trees, perfectly exquisite snow flakes, intricate ice crystals and more. ...
Personally, I don’t like to use bevel effect in my work. I like things to be flat. But, one night I saw the billboard on the street with huge chocolate and it was actually a photograph of chocolate. ...
There is a thing in Mac OS X that really annoys me.. If you have different resolutions and then there is a display icon that appears in the upper menu and it shows an old Cinema Display (the plastic ...
1. This is a picture of an old Thunderbird we are going to colorize. Right click on it and choose Save Picture as… to save it on your hard drive. I took this picture somewhere in Ontario, ...
If you want to learn the OS X command line, but find the available books intimidating, bristle at the thought you should read anything for “dummies,” or just worry that you may by eaten ...
Update: This bug has been fixed in Safari 3. Thanks Balazs N. for the tip!
Safari is a great browser, but not perfect. It doesn’t handle CSS background ...
Do you believe coming up with a creative idea is a matter of luck? I don’t. I think creativity is strategic thinking. It can be a well defined process that almost guarantees an idea every time.
Unfortunately ...
One of the most popular questions among webdesigners starting to learn CSS is: What is the difference between id and class?
First difference
Ids are to be used only once in your html layout. Classes can be used multiple ...
A recent discussion sparked the idea of using LAB colorspace for transposing colors. In this lesson, I will show you why and how to do it.
LAB color is made up of three components/channels: L, ...