An effective packaging design can attract more customers and persuade them buy your products. Here’s a collection of package designs for your inspiration.
InDesign CS6 Pantone+ color glitch: a workaround
If you try to get Pantone 543 (or a number of other Pantone colors) in Adobe InDesign CS6’s Color panel, you’ve likely run into an annoying glitch. You simply can’t find it by typing it in as you could with CS5.
InDesign Secrets describes the CS6 Pantone+ glitch in detail, and offers some workarounds.
What I find most annoying about this glitch is that Adobe hasn’t fixed it with a small update yet, and that Pantone doesn’t make the older libraries available for easy download. Hopefully, the new InDesign CC (due to ship later this month) fixes the problem.
Proofreading tip: Speak Selected Text with a Keystroke in Mac OS X
Sometimes it’s beneficial to proofread text in your design work by hearing it, rather than reading it. Mac OS X offers a convenient way to do it, and OSX Daily offers a simple tutorial to show you how to set it up.
I use this feature quite often, but not as much as I probably should. Give it a try, you may find it quite useful.
Design is about communication
Design is about communication. It is about helping clients to realize their goals through a design solution geared toward their questions, concerns, wants, and needs.
Skeuomorphic vs. Flat design is the subject of the article, but in reading it, I found that the arguments made apply to design in general.
Web design humor at its finest (NSFW)
My favorite new feature of Adobe Illustrator CC
Google Glass review
A whole pile of thoughts about Google Glass, from a Mac-using Adobe Engineering Manager.
This review has more of a lifestyle slant to it, rather than a tech one. It actually sounds pretty cool. Now if they can get the cost down to around $300, I might actually buy a pair.
Assumptions, conjecture, and speculation – oh my!
The Wall Street Journal has shared an article that tells us what we all know already. Apple is doomed, profits are down, marketshare slipping, Foxconn moving on to bigger/better things, blah, blah, blah.
Six great Dropbox alternatives
You have Dropbox, right? C’mon, who hasn’t at least tried it? For those who haven’t, Dropbox is a simple way to sync files from one computer to others, and share files with family, friends, and co-workers.
Dropbox has cemented itself as a staple of any multi-Mac user’s toolbox. It works near flawlessly, and couldn’t be easier to use. But there are plenty of alternatives out there that offer similar services, if not exactly the same ones.
Here are a few that I’ve tried and really like. Most offer paid upgrades for more storage and features, but all are free to use if your syncing and storage needs are light.
Copy
Copy is named quite ironically, because it’s a virtual copy of Dropbox as far as how it works. A folder is created in your Home folder your Mac and everything you put in it gets synced through the cloud with your other Macs (or PCs). The Copy web app is nicer to work with than Dropbox’s website, IMO. I love the features Copy offers, like the ability to easily set up shared folders, notifications, and bandwidth restrictions for uploads and downloads.
Copy starts you off with 15GB of storage. Like Dropbox, Copy offers a referral bonus program which gives you 5GB of bonus storage for every friend who signs up with your personal link. Your friend also gets an extra 5GB when they sign up. So if you use the link above to sign up, you should get 20GB of storage right from the start. Pretty sweet! Copy is already fairly popular, and integration with other websites and iOS apps is popping up every day. The iOS app is really, really nice, too!