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PopChar X 3.0 helps find special characters.

Over the years, we’ve heard dozens of clients express great fondness for PopChar — a handy pop-up utility that displays all the characters in a selected font. Click on any character to automatically insert it into your active text block ($30 shareware). A new Universal Binary version keeps the idea of the older versions, but […]
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Hanging punctuation in various applications.

About once a month, a client will ask how to hang punctuation in Adobe InDesign CS. We’ve answered this same question dozens of times — yet I still find myself hunting around through menus to remember which dialog box contains the needed checkbox!

This tip covers hanging punctuation techniques in Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Freehand MX, and QuarkXPress.

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Tim Pearson
October 1, 2006
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Network crashes in CS2? Try Adobe Dialog.

Here is a tip for creative teams who are experiencing a lot of “unexpectedly quit” crashes when opening files from a network server in Adobe Creative Suite 2 applications.

It appears, under certain conditions, the new “Use Adobe Dialog” option introduced in CS2 can prevent crashes in InDesign and Illustrator while accessing documents over a network.

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Tim Pearson
September 24, 2006
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Score your online buzz using SocialMeter.com

Here is a tip that came up during the hour of Q&A after last week’s “Blog Your Portfolio” talk at Seattle’s School of Visual Concepts: “What are some of the best tools out there for keeping track of my studios’s online buzz?” Here’s an easy tool we like: SocialMeter.com Type in the URL of your […]
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Tim Pearson
September 24, 2006
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Blog Your Portfolio Notes (September 18, 2006).

Thanks to everybody who came out to SVC last Tuesday for our free “Blog your Portfolio” talk. Every seat in the house was taken, and we ended up staying almost a hour after the presentation answering questions and talk with people. As promised, here is a PDF of the slides from our talk: Blog Your […]
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Tim Pearson
September 24, 2006
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Sort InDesign menus alphabetically.

Ever find yourself spending way too much time hunting through menus for an option you know is there somewhere? You know what it’s called but you just can’t find it. Here is one of those fun hidden tricks that works in Adobe InDesign CS/CS2. Hold down the right set of keys and click on any […]
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Tim Pearson
September 21, 2006
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Subscribe to RSS news feeds in Safari.

Most blogs today offer news feeds using a technology called RSS. These feeds provide an easy way to stay updated whenever new articles (or tips) have been posted to your favorite blog. We’ve created an animation showing how this process works in the latest version of Apple’s Sarafi web browser. The rest of this tip […]
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Tim Pearson
September 17, 2006
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Organize RSS feeds using Safari bookmark folders.

“How do you find time to read all those blogs?” That’s a pretty common question. We do spend a lot of time scouring the web for new tips — but that is only a small part of our job. One trick we use to streamline our perpetual hunt is organizing RSS feeds into different bookmark […]
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Tim Pearson
September 16, 2006
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Visual Thesaurus.

Stumped for just that right phrase? Type in a term and watch as an interactive word map blossoms with meanings and branches to related words. Drag words around and play with them visually to engage a different part of your brain. Great for naming and branding projects.

Enough talk. Copywriter want link now: Visual Thesaurus.

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Tim Pearson
September 11, 2006
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Growing Your Business with Google.

Every graphic designer who earns part of their living designing websites should be required to read at least chapter 14 of Dave Taylor’s book Growing Your Business with Google.

Tip: Copywriters who want to learn to craft search engine-friendly copy should read this book too.

Craig’s note: That’s my own copy shown at right. I read it on vacation in early 2006 while we were planning our own CreativeIQ blog. I thought I knew a fair bit about web design. The dozens of post-it notes and highlighted sections are a testimony to how much I was missing about designing sites that work well with search engines.

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Tim Pearson
September 10, 2006
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