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Cool, looks like I’m in the PS3 Home Beta. Along with thousands of others no doubt.

WELCOME TO HOME BETA Dear PlayStation®Network member, Congratulations, you have been selected to help beta test PlayStation®Home! We appreciate your help in making the PlayStation®Home experience the best it can be! Please log in to Home this evening from 6 pm – 8 pm PST for a big celebration of Version 1.0 and a load [...]

The desk

Here’s my desk in a blurry as hell photo. Enjoy.  

Illustrator or Photoshop “Unknown Error” when saving or can’t use type tool. Fixed!

No thanks to Adobe, even after numerous complaints going all the way back to Creative Suite 1, if you have a bad font on your system, you may have issues saving as an .ai in Illustrator. You’ll get the dreaded “an unknown error has occured”. If you disable PDF compatibility, it will save, but that’s [...]

The Gimp is better than Photoshop when it comes to Arabic or other Right to Left typefaces.

Recently we had to do some work in Arabic for a client of ours. We had never used Arabic in Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator before. So when the client asked “you can do Arabic” the response was “oh yeah of course” without giving it a second thought. Windows supports Arabic, so in turn Adobe [...]

Even Canucks can get Free Swag from Feedburner/Google! Got ours Today

Check it out, a couple fancy stickers and two fancy buttons with the feedburner logo. Hot!

Leave home even less, consume even more with this handy company.

I was looking at a couple local sites today while trying to find a place to trade my cellular phone for a different model.. and I came across this advertisement. I almost didn’t take a second look until I saw the little interac machine at the bottom. Interesting. Check it out. Now, I’m not complaining, [...]