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Learn Adobe’s Pen Tool with Bézier Dot-to-Dot.

The problem with grasping Adobe’s pen tool is that you can’t really learn it by reading a description or watching a demonstration. To master the pen tool, you must actively draw with it. Eventually, after enough repetition, something clicks and the pen tool starts to make sense. So, how does one teach a skill that […]
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Tim Pearson
November 16, 2007
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Learn Adobe’s Pen Tool with Advanced Math.

Okay, we don’t actually expect anyone to learn Adobe’s pen tool through the study of cubic Bézier curves — but we love this cool animation of how the Bézier spline is actually derived from the mathematical equations you control with your handy pen tool. You can read more than you care to know about the […]
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Tim Pearson
November 16, 2007
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Preparing for Leopard: Helvetica is Dead.

HelveticaGrave.pngOBITUARY: After a prolonged battle with Mac OS X, Helvetica — along with younger cousin Helvetica Neue — was finally pronounced dead on October 28, 2007 with the release of Leopard, by Apple, in California.

For years, print-based graphic designers and prepress professionals have fought to replace certain Mac OS X default fonts with their existing PostScript Type 1 fonts of the same name — Helvetica being a primary example.

It’s been a losing battle.

Now with Leopard, the war for control of Helvetica is done, and Mac OS X won.

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Tim Pearson
November 11, 2007
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A List Aparts’ 2007 Web Design Survey.

In April 2007, A List Apart conducted a survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey’s 37 questions, providing a treasure trove of data on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide. The Web Design Survey 2007 If you are a web […]
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Tim Pearson
November 4, 2007
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Embed a free Flash MP3 player on your blog.

Last week we posted a fun collection of Halloween MP3s which received a tremendous amount of web traffic. Many people asked about the embedded MP3 player we used to let visitors to listen to songs from their browsers.

For this week’s creative tip, we decided to provide a short tutorial on how to setup and use a free Flash-based music player developed by Fabricio Zuardi.

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To demonstrate that player in action we’d like to feature the work of Creativetechs’ newest Mac IT consultant, Dave Corter, who in addition to being an excellent Mac engineer has also published several albums of Didgeridoo music. Click on a couple titles above to give them a listen, or scroll down for a tutorial on how to embed your own music player.

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Tim Pearson
November 4, 2007
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November 90-Minute Mini-Workshops.

CT-SepPostcard.pngJoin us at the Creativetechs office Wednesday mornings 9:30am to 11am. Pick up a couple new skills, and get back to work before lunch. You can put what you learn into use the same day.

The cost is $50 per workshop.

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Tim Pearson
November 4, 2007
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Classic Halloween Vinyl Records on MP3s.

HalloweenRecordMP3.pngCheck out this MP3 collection with almost 100 old spooky, corny and kitschy vinyl records from the 60’s, 70’s and early 80’s. If you are the right age, you might remember a few of these classics from your own childhood LP collections.

The entire MP3 collection is available for free — just in time for Halloween parties. Download your favorites to your iPod, or burn CD’s right from your computer.

Jason at the Scar Stuff blog provides the MP3s in zipped files for each album. For immediate gratification, scroll down this post where you can play tracks from a few of our favorite albums.

Enjoy! And Happy Halloween from Creativetechs in Seattle!

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Tim Pearson
October 24, 2007
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Apple iWork ’08 opens Microsoft Office 2007 files.

Microsoft Office 2007 was first released for PC users in late 2006 — introducing a slew of new file formats that couldn’t be opened on a Mac. These new formats include Word 2007 documents (docx), Excel 2007 spreadsheets (xlsx), and PowerPoint 2007 presentations (pptx). The new Mac Office 2008 isn’t expected to ship until January […]
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Tim Pearson
October 21, 2007
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Build a PowerBook and MacBook repair toolkit.

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Over the last week we’ve had a lot of Apple laptops in our office for various repairs and upgrades — including one of our own MacBook Pros that was upgraded with a larger internal hard drive.

It is a good reminder that however skilled you are at hardware repair, you won’t be able to open a MacBook Pro case without the right set of screwdrivers. We’ve asked Creativetechs’ hardware guru, Jasson Lewellen, to compile a list of tools and training materials for people who are interested in doing basic Apple laptop repair.

So whether you run an IT team headed towards self-service, or you are an intrepid DIY home-user willing to void a warranty, here are a collection of links for you to start building your own laptop repair toolkit.

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Tim Pearson
October 20, 2007
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Use Safe Boot to Clear Font Caches.

If you suspect that fonts are causing problems in your applications, an easy troubleshooting step is deleting your Mac’s font caches.

We’ve covered font cache problems before in our Garbled Fonts Troubleshooting Guide — which delves into font problems more deeply. However we did overlook a quick and easy method to delete font cache files.

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Tim Pearson
October 14, 2007
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