How to make Ubuntu Linux run faster on a laptop

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If you google around on the web you will find there are several tutorials on how to make your Ubuntu Linux installation run faster — especially on older hardware. These tips are very useful and range from minor tweaks to major overhauls. Being an intermediate Linux user myself, I found some of the more difficult […]

Creative outlets for web designers

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“The artist is an exalted craftsman”Walter GropiusThe Bauhaus Manifesto As web designers, we are all too familiar with the frustrations that can accompany client projects. Building web sites is often driven by overbearing decision makers who inevitably want to see the logo bigger, text colored red and bolded, and several volumes of the Encyclopedia Corporatanica […]

Succeeding in Turmoil, a Complimentary Marketing E-Book

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It’s no secret that the economy is behaving in an unprecedented and unpredictable manner. For the small business this can add an increased amount of uncertainty to an already volatile environment. But it can also create opportunity. As the economy continues to go through an adjustment new market opportunities are being created by agile small […]

Managing Web Developers and Designers

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Photo by e-magic There has been plenty of venting in the blogosphere about the difficulty and frustration that ensues when dealing with web developers. In fact, we’ve contributed to this topic ourselves when we wrote about The Myopic Web Developer. In an ideal world there would be a unity between the designer and the developer, […]

Ecofont for graphic designers — use less ink, help the environment

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For those print designers out there looking to lessen their impact on the earth with more than just recycled papers and soy-based inks, have a look at the Ecofont. The folks over at SPRANQ creative brainstormed several ways to deconstruct letter forms to decrease ink usage while maintaining readability. The end solution was rather simple, […]

Simple is a Relative Word

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It seems that the holy grail of any web-based project management software app is a state of consumer nirvana collectively coined as “simple.” The word has become so popular — and mis-applied — that compound superlatives are becoming more commonplace; “absurdly simple”, “unbelievably simple”, and so on. Yet, it is difficult to objectively define simplicity […]