SmashingApps has put together a link list of 40 useful cheat sheets for graphic designers covering everything from standard HTML, CSS, and Photoshop shortcuts, to standard envelope and postcard size charts.
Folks, I can’t stress enough how important it is to take a good long second look at your layout. If you don’t you could end up in one of these design disaster posts.
Vecte is a simple Mac OS X application switcher replacement. All the standard keyboard shortcuts still work, the only difference is how it looks and feels. It’s a great way to customize how OS X looks and works.
Simple Icons is a collection of 100 brand icons, available in PNG format in eleven different sizes ranging from 16 to 4096 pixels. You can download Simple Icons from Smashing Magazine here.
Mike Rankin offers the following tips for Acrobat XI. Many of them also work in older versions of Acrobat, though the locations and names of specific menu items may be different.
With so much competition in the consumer’s mailbox, you have to design a direct mail piece for clear readability and quick communication of your message. Tell the reader too much and you risk them not reading the entire piece. Don’t tell them enough and they lose interest and toss it in the bin.
Rather than go into all the best practices of designing direct mail, I thought I would share my thoughts on a direct mail piece I received recently.
The Touchfire iPad Keyboard fits right over the iPad’s on-screen keyboard and is completely transparent, so you can always see the keys underneath it. When you type, the Touchfire keyboard responds with just the right amount of resistance and spring-back to feel like a lively and responsive keyboard.
If you use your iPad for emailing and writing, this look like a really cool thing to have!
It’s always fun to look back on computing history, especially when Apple is the subject.
One of many humorous moments from a Steve Jobs keynote.
