There are loads of different types of clients out there and chances are at some point you’ll get to meet all of them. So let’s take a look through some typical clients and see if you recognise a few of your own in there!

Stop running "repair permissions" to fix problems with 3rd party software and your documents. IT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING for them!!!

I think it's complete garbage. Some people just like to have a problem with everything. There are plenty of reasons not to have the iPhone (price of the AT&T contract being the main one), but these reasons are just stupid.

Seven "truths" about Apple stores, as submitted by an employee. Truth or fiction? You decide.

From friends who think I make easy money to my mother who (lovingly) admonishes me to get a real job, everybody seems to have their own idea of what freelancing is all about. Many of these ideas come from misconceptions of the freelancing life, and Wakeuplater has eight of the most popular.

We recently showed you "12 iPhone Tricks You Might Not Know", and we're back to give you more. Due to all the great feedback our readers gave us, and some further iPhone experimentation (a.k.a. iPerimentation) on our part, we've found some other tips and tricks that can enhance your iPhone experience.

Again, yes, Apple could give the update to iPod touch users for free just like their iPhone-using brethren, but they'd have to open past accounting periods and restate their financials. 802.11n? Any of this ringing a bell?

In advertising these days, the brass ring goes to those who can measure everything--how many people see a particular advertisement, when they see it, who they are. All of that is easy on the Internet, and getting easier in television and print.

CNET reports on a new technology to look back at viewers and present appropriate information about the viewers back to the advertiser.

From the legal point of view, Copyright in Web is often considered as the grey area; as such it’s often misunderstood and violated - mostly simply because bloggers don’t know, what laws they have to abide and what issues they have to consider. In fact, copyright myths are common, as well as numerous copyright debates in the Web.

That’s time to put facts straight. In this post we’ve collected the most important facts, articles and resources related to copyright issues, law and blogging. We’ve also put together most useful tools and references you can use dealing with plagiarism.

If you’re a designer looking for a job—whether of the freelance or permanent variety—then an online portfolio is pretty much mandatory. In many instances, your portfolio will be looked at without you present, without any other information about you, and probably by a person who has never spoken to or seen you in person. If your portfolio has to stand alone in a critical situation like hiring, it’s worth spending some time making sure it’s going to get the job done!

If you're a creative director, art director, graphic designer, website designer, photographer or illustrator and you're looking to get your portfolio in front of people hiring creative talent, then FigDig is the place for you.

It was clear that the prototype was still a disaster. It wasn't just buggy, it flat-out didn't work. The iPhone dropped calls constantly, the battery stopped charging before it was full, data and applications routinely became corrupted and unusable. The list of problems seemed endless. At the end of the demo, Jobs fixed the dozen or so people in the room with a level stare and said, "We don't have a product yet."

That was then.

Learn the tips of grabbing more freelance work by improving your publicity design skills. This great article at FreelanceSwitch is a must-read!

Icons, icons and more icons. Download 'em now!

Tom's Hardware has posted test results indicating that SSD's (the hard drive type found in the high-end MacBook Air) actually uses MORE battery power than a regular hard drive.

Macworld's home to all things creative for the Mac. Everything from Adobe apps and plugins, to music applications and Web resources can be found on Creative Notes.

You should be familiar with Open and Save dialogs - they are the windows that appear whenever you go to open or save a file. In Leopard, these dialog boxes now have new view options for browsing your files.

I noticed this quite by accident the other day while rendering out
an After Effects animation I had done. I had made a spelling change in
one of the graphics, and re-rendered a composition I had rendered the
day before. When it was finished, I noticed in the Render Queue that it
had taken 15 minutes longer to render than it had the day before. This
seemed odd to me, as like I said, all I had done was changed the
spelling of one word in the animation. It turns out that Safari is responsible. Read on for tests and explanation.

Note: This article was written in February of 2006, so obviously it applies to OSX Tiger, and not Leopard.

Take a shot, send us the image and win a Canon Digital Rebel camera. In web design textures are needed in background-images and header graphics. Graphic designers use textures to transport some concrete aspects of real-life into the digital presentation. Textures are also used to create an atmosphere which fits to the main topic or idea of the site.

Such textures are usually extracted from photos. In fact, everybody can create them — apart from a camera no special devices or tools are necessary. You just need to find a texture and you make a shot of it. And here is where our readers come in. With this contest we want to encourage you to go out, take a camera with you, shot textures and send them to us.

Is there a reward?
Yes. The camera presented below can be yours. One of participants of Smashing Texture contest will win the Canon Digital Rebel XT 8MP Digital SLR Camera with EF-S 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 Lens. The winner will be determined randomly.

How the "Apple Tax" Boosts Prices on iPod & iPhone Accessories
Blockbuster sales of iPods and iPhones give Apple the muscle to impose restrictions—and extra fees—on technology partners. Inside the company's secretive "Made for iPod" and authentication chip programs.

A great place to read and discuss all things related to graphic design.

When I wrote the first version of this article six years ago, I called it “Why Free Software usability tends to suck”. The best open source applications and operating systems are more usable now than they were then. But this is largely from slow incremental improvements, and low-level competition between projects and distributors. Major problems with the design process itself remain largely unfixed.

Many of these problems are with volunteer software in general, not Free Software in particular.

Matthew Paul Thomas discusses free software development, why it has poor usability, and what to do to fix it.

For example, Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 on 256-bit DRM-free MP3 is just $9.99 from Amazon. The same album is also $9.99 from Apple, but you get DRM. And there are tons of tracks on Amazon that are actually less expensive than on iTMS, so you get better music for less money without the DRM hassle. So is Apple screwing the customers?

In a word, no.

The desktop has historically been the leader in the computing business, but in recent years, the notebook has taken charge. And as that changeover continues to progress, is it time to write off the desktop?