Photoshop News features a link to a BBC story on the looming “digital dark age”. According to the story, thousands of digital files are lost each year because newer computers can’t open them. While paper can sit on a shelf for years without losing information, files stored on floppy discs or other media are lost because the computers that made them are obsolete. The cost to business is calculated to be in the billions.
While I usually read the Get Rich Slowly blog for financial tips, an entry from last Friday focuses on the nature of life, death, and money.
My favorite quote: When you’re lying on your deathbed, you won’t think, “Damn! I got an iPhone.” You’ll remember your friends, and you’ll remember the experiences you’ve had.
Today is July 7th of 2007 or 7/7/07. There are couples getting married and lottery players lining up to buy tickets because this is supposed to be the luckiest day ever.
I think I managed to catch some of that luck. Over the weekend I built a new computer, installed Windows XP, and got it all running with very few hangups, hardware/driver issues, or other problems.
I have a lot of posting to catch up on and several half-written entries sitting in my drafts folder. I have nearly 2 months of writing to catch up on. I’ll need all the luck I can get.
During the time I have not been posting I have learned a great deal about WordPress, SEO, and graphic design. I have a lot to share in the coming days.
I have also made changes to the template for this blog. I will be posting about how I came to certain decisions about how this blog should look and what my goals are.
The best of luck to everyone on this July 7th.
Jeffery Zeldman writes about how web designers are invisible to most companies. He calls it “Death by ORG chart”. While the importance of web design and services is growing, there is little recognition or respect for those who do the work.
I modified the default Kubrick template with some new graphics and styles. The Wordpress site helped me make the changes, including some PHP code to make the header graphic switch when the blog is refreshed.
I mentioned before in a previous post that there are dozens of tutorials on creating a multi-column layout in CSS, but I only needed ONE that worked.
A List Apart features another outstanding tutorial on creating clean and elastic multi-column layouts.
If you know of a better tutorial or have your own code to make a multi-column layout, feel free to post a link to it in the comments or email me at blog AT gnilka DOT com.
Digital Photography School offers advice on keeping the lenses of your digital camera clean. The tips range from using a UV filter on your lens to prevent scratches, to putting silica gel desiccants in your camera bag to absorb moisture.
A big Digg story recently was an article on Razvan’s Nerve featuring links to 71 examples of CSS navigation.
From the sliding doors method of navigation to CSS drop downs, there are plenty of examples to study and use. It is also useful to have all these examples in one place.
According to the official Adobe site, there will be two versions of Photoshop CS3.
Photoshop CS3 is for print, web design and other 2D imaging projects.
Photoshop CS3 Extended has additional features designed for film editors, architects, and other users who deal with 3D imaging and video.
More details will be announced by Adobe at the big C3 unveiling on March 27.
Here is video explaining the uses for Adobe’s Apollo web applications and shows Apollo in action. It is about 13 minutes long, but worth watching.