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Today is Friday, March 19, 2010 3:02 am (U.S. central time).

“Most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.”
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Tutorial: Restoring a Dark Image in Photoshop

I’ve written about restoring dark images before, but the other day I was working on a less radical image than the ones I was writing about then, and I thought a more detailed step-by step tutorial might be in order. In the image above — a picture of the western group of ruins at the [...]

Posted: April 25th, 2007 under art and illustration, computing, maya.
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Free Vista Fonts

If you have a Windows system but you aren’t running Vista you can still legally install the new Vista fonts (which will work fine without Vista) for free. They are packaged with Microsoft’s PowerPoint Viewer 2007. You can download the viewer here, and the fonts will be available on your system after you install it.

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Posted: April 4th, 2007 under computing, software, typography.
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Windows Most Secure OS

according to Symantec. Its tests show the operating systems fall out this way, from most to least secure:

Windows (Vista?)
Linux
Mac OS X
HP-UX

The full story, at internetnews.com.

Posted: March 24th, 2007 under computing.
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