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Quick and Easy E-book Covers in 3D

Are digital E-book readers the wave of the future? Apple has an app for reading e-books on your iPhone, Sony’s got a line of new portable digital readers, and apparently there is a device called the Kindle2 that you can read your e-books with. Honestly I didn’t know there was a Kindle1. If I didn’t [...]

Use YouTube to Learn Gimp

In this post I list some great Gimp tutorials from YouTube. YouTube is a great one-stop-shop for video tutorials, why not use it to learn Gimp. For a while now I’ve been telling people if they can’t afford Photoshop use Gimp, it’s the free PS. Among the biggest differences between the image editors is that [...]

Quick and Easy E-Book cover in Expression

If you’ve been surfing the web for any length of time, no doubt you’ve come across a e-book. Back when I was a 9-to-5er I was sent to a book publishers convention where one of the workshops was introducing the idea of e-books to the attendees. Now mind you, this was 1999 and there where [...]

6 Answers to Designing on a Shoestring

If you ever wondered how you could get something design related done as inexpensively as possible, maybe one of these tips is the answer to your prayers. Let me remind you that cheap or free is not always the best way to go. You are either going to spend your money or your time getting [...]

How to Make Your Twitter Avatar

I did a search using the keyword Avatar, at search.twitter.com and found that it is a highly used word to say the least. Here are the types of statements I found the word used in: I never follow someone without a avatar. Trying to figure out what avatar to use on my account. How old [...]