Your graphic design resume is going to be just as important as your portfolio, if not more important than your portfolio when it comes to job hunting. This is because most people will examine your resume before they open your portfolio book, meaning your resume is going to be your first impression! You have to remember that the people you will be sending your resume to go through tons of these every day so yours has to be immaculate and memorable, or they wont even bother looking at your portfolio.

YouTheDesigner has put together a Graphic Design Resume Guide to help you make important decisions about your resume, including paper choices, layout, typography and more.

Package design is a highly specialized and difficult niche to master. Thinking in 3D is hard enough, but pulling it off is even more difficult. If you're looking for a little inspiration, check out DZineBlog's Package Design Inspiration article.

Among the numerous resources that can be found over at CreativeBits are a set of image templates for identity design. These "blanks" are perfect for showing off your design ideas to clients.

There are around 200 images in 5 different categories available. The downloads are broken up by category and are anywhere between 7 and 17MB each.

You can download the templates here. The download links for each category are below the photos.

Let's say you're on the road and don't have your personal computer with you, or you're working on someone elses computer, or you're at a (gasp) Windows workstation, and you need to get some large files sent to your printer, your home computer or other location — but there's no FTP application on the computer.

AnyClient is available both as a web based service requiring no software installation, and as a downloadable application that you can install locally.

AnyClient is a free platform independent FTP (file transfer) application that supports all major file transfer protocols including FTP/S, SFTP and WebDAV/S.

Just click the Applet tab at the top of the page and you're off and running.

Today, QuarkXPress 7 has tighter integration with Photoshop and Illustrator tools than ever before, and through standards such as HTML and CSS, QuarkXPress users can publish across media — both independently and alongside Adobe Creative Suite applications such as Adobe Flash and Adobe Dreamweaver.

In this article you’ll find out how Creative Suite 2 and Creative Suite 3 users can get the best possible interaction with QuarkXPress. You’ll be surprised how easy Quark has made it to unlock the full potential of all your design software.

Apple has settled out of court, for an undisclosed amount, a lawsuit over their claim that several of their LCD displays show millions of colors when they actually don't.

If you haven't heard, the displays in question (mostly the 20" iMac and MacBook displays) claim to show users millions of colors. In actuality, they are only capable of showing thousands of true colors and use a dithering process to simulate millions. While the average user never notices the difference, many users claim that the difference is quite apparent in certain situations.

A San Diego Superior Court clerk announced that the plaintiffs settled due to the fact that they couldn't find enough people to join them in the suit that felt they were "wronged" because the only reason they bought the Mac was for the millions of colors display.

Well duh! While I don't agree with Apple's tactics and marketing claims in this case, I have to say that this was sort of a B.S. case anyway. While the displays may show some signs of dithering in gradients and certain color situations, the average consumer would never notice the difference to begin with.

Given that Apple is one of the few high-profile tech companies actually doing well in this economy, I don't expect this will be the last frivolous lawsuit we see brought against Apple.

This little gem is made up entirely of OSX system sounds — a creative project by a designer living in New York City.

You can download the GarageBand file used to create this tune from here.

Late last year, I wrote about my 9 Rules to creating a logo you can live with and still get paid.

Today I came across Design a logo: The ultimate guide over at YouTheDesigner.

The article covers some of the writers helpful tips, and a few handy sites for those looking for inspiration and resources.

Package design is a niche in our industry that gets little attention, even though it's probably one of the coolest things to design and looks great in a portfolio. There are few resources dedicated to it, so when I came across The Dieline, I knew I wanted to share it with you.

The site offers inspirational samples and articles about great package design, as well as design studio spotlights.

While there is no definitive cure-all for making your machine as good (and as fast) as day one, there are some basic things you can do that might help reclaim disk space, remove some clutter and generally speed up your Mac.

Wired Magazine offers some insight and advice on how to speed up your Mac - what works and what doesn't.

If you don't read the article, or you miss it, the one point I wish to drive home is that repairing file permissions and updating the prebindings will NOT speed up your Mac. It's a myth that has lived too long.

Came across this typing test that lets you know about how fast you type. You simple type in a box what you see above it. When you complete all the words, a new list appears and you continue typing as fast as you can. (Hint: don't bother correcting, just move on to the next word).

Once you're done (when the timer runs down), you can copy your results and post them in the comments.

Here was my results (one incorrect word):

75 words

Speed test

Logos are the ultimate mark of distinction and everyone loves them. We see logos everyday - on the highways, on consumer goods, on the Web and in the institutions and organizations we support.

Every year somebody puts out a forcast of what we can expect from logo design in the coming year. This year, LogoOrange has a 2008 Logo Design Trends report covering the "in" styles for this year.

Popular styles for this year include:

• 3D
• Waves
• Web 2.0-style
• Transparency
• "Underground"
• Rainbows
• Sci-Fi
• Leaves
• Ugly 80's
• Crests

While I'm happy to see some of these styles appear on the scene, I could do without some of them like Web 2.0 and 80's style.

If you own a MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iPod, or iPhone, you should probably take a look at Apple's recommendations for battery health. The pages listed below cover tips on charging & use recommendations to maintain a happy, healthy and long-lasting battery.

• Apple Laptops
• iPods
• iPhones

The one common recommendation is to charge often, but do not leave plugged in for extended periods.

Which Mac should I buy? It’s a question I see constantly in forum discussions across the Web. If you’re an average consumer who needs Web, email, word processing and little more, the choices are easy. You can go with what your pocketbook allows and be satisfied.

Deciding which new Mac to get if you’re in the content creation business, however, is like trying to decide what milk to buy at the grocery store when you don’t normally do the shopping in the household. You’ve got the choice between 1%, 2%, whole milk, low-fat, skim, no freakin fat whatsoever, the list goes on and on. It’s enough to drive you crazy just looking at the options.

Here is my (very opinionated) advice to those who find themselves faced with such an expensive dilemma as to which Mac to buy. You’re on your own with the milk though.

Wake up to your Internet life
Chumby is a small Internet appliance disguised as an alarm clock. The $179 Chumby shows you (on a 3.5 inch LCD screen) sports scores, photos (via Flickr, MySpace, Facebook, etc.), videos via YouTube and others, and offers Internet Radio stations and access to the Chumby Network. All that is required is a wireless router and a computer (probably for setup purposes).

I suppose you could make the argument that the iPod Touch could do most of this, but this device is pretty cool on its own.

LightScribe 1.2 And the Colour Revolution
LightScribe is a technology that allows you to burn a CD or DVD, and have a label printed onto its label side using a laser to engrave whatever design you created in the label layer on the CD/DVD.

The LightScribe technology requires a specially designed LightScribe DVD-writer with a laser that is capable of both burning DVDs and engraving at lower power. A couple of weeks ago Verbatim released the first colored LightScribe 1.2.x discs. Besides the gold colored discs, you can now “Lightscribe” onto red, orange, green, yellow and blue-green media.

Apple's Preview App
If you're simply looking to resize a photo, look no further than Apple's Preview application.

Aperture for iPhoto users
If you're thinking of moving up from iPhoto to something a bit more "pro" in its features, take a look at Aperture 2 impressions from an iPhoto user.

Ipsum everywhere
Lorem Ipsum is the "greek text" designers have been dropping into layouts for years. Many programs have it built-in. But for those that don't, or want more control over the Ipsum text, take a look at It's All Greek To Me over at the AppleBlog. The article covers over 15 Lorem Ipsum apps and resources.