Archive for March, 2009
How to Clean a Beyond-Filthy Printer
Do you know that printers need to be cleaned to function at top capacity? How dirty is your printer? If you don’t know, we can walk you through the steps to clean that filthy little bugger, no matter if it’s an ink-jet or laser printer.
There are certain steps to follow no matter which printer you [...]
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Clip Art of the Week: Pitr’s Minimalist Food Icons
As we keep growing and striding beyond 9530 pieces of clip art towards the 10,000 clip art mark submitted to the Open Clip Art Library, the quality of submissions keeps increasing.
For this week, I am highlighting the minimal works of Pitr.
One image I really appreciate is of Pitr’s watermelon:
This image is a reworked version of [...]
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Video Editing Made Easy with Kino!
There are lots of good tools in the Free Open Source Software world for capturing and editing video, but common to making almost any movie is a basic understanding of the steps to building a good story using a storyboard editor. This article will help you take the very first step toward creating a movie by using the very simple storyboard video editing program called Kino to create a story.
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Free Printable St Patrick’s Day Labels & Cards
Saint Patrick’s Day (Irish: Lá ’le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially St. Paddy’s Day or Paddy’s Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa 385–461 AD), one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17.
Labels and cards are in PDF fillable printable templates and are best [...]
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Design a Print Ready Business Card
Despite the digital wave that’s taking over everyday life, the good old business card is still a highly useful tool for any professional. Follow this walkthrough to produce your own modern and stylish business card in Adobe Illustrator, and mock up the design onto the business card template ready for production with Worldlabel.com
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Clip Art of the Week: Remi’s Champagne Anyone?
When prepping last week’s Clip Art of the Week, I discovered the glossy clip art of Remi. He has done some really amazing work such as the following:
All of his clip art submissions are super-high quality! I would love to receive images showing people and businesses using this clip art on [...]
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Hedging against recession with free and open source software
Is free and open source software (FOSS) a way to cut business costs? As concern about recession – even depression – deepens, more and more companies are asking this question. However, many have trouble knowing how to begin to find an answer.
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