Access the hard drive of a Mac that won't boot with Target Disk Mode

If you’re a PC pro who needs to recover files off a Mac that won’t boot, you might think to try the old PC trick of removing the problem Mac’s hard drive and attaching it to another machine. But, there’s an easier way. In this IT Dojo video, I show you how to use Target Disk Mode to access the hard drive of a Mac that won’t boot.

Embed YouTube Videos in Powerpoint

It can be quite embarrassing to slow down a presentation, when the video you are trying to show your audience is buffering. Unfortunately, this recently happened to me. And if I was prepared beforehand, I could have avoided this whole mess.

This handy tip will surely be of great help to you in your next PowerPoint presentation. To stream live video from the internet, you will first need to download the YouTube Wizard plug-in here.

This creates a new "Insert YouTube Video" command to your PowerPoint Toolbar. Then you just have to type the URL of the YouTube video and follow the wizard to insert the YouTube video player in your current slide, as seen here:

Lightening 2 Photoshop Brushes - Free Photoshop Brushes

This set is made up of various lightning bolts. It includes single bolts, so that you could combine them together to make your own bolts if you wished (or leave them on their lonesome, of course!). Also includes various groupings of lightning bolts already together. Read More>>>

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Free High Resolution Grungy Watercolor Photoshop Brushes

The amazing BittBox has done it again, releasing another set of very beautiful grungy watercolor brushes. Here's what he he has to say about this excellent free set: Read More>>>

Go to the BittBox site to download the free Hi-Res Grungy Watercolor Brushes.

Stars Photoshop Brushes - Free Photoshop Brushes

Here's Stephanie with her latest Photoshop brushes, Stars Photoshop Brushes: Firstly, some celestial stars... from star patterns that can be overlapped to create beautiful starfields to larger versions to use in starscapes, etc. - even a few individual smaller versions to accent the star fields.
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SimpleImageViewer

New Downloads

A fast and efficient Mac still image viewer application to view, perform limited editing and translation of images with a large variety of image file types. Freeware.

Phone Home

No matter where the universe takes us, cell phones keep us constantly connected to friends, family and meal-interrupting football scores. We have 64,000 shots that communicate the power of connecting. Check out our best, then eat your peas and carrots.

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Free Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Keyboard Shortcuts PDF

Victoria (the Lightroom Queen) has kindly posted some free Adobe Lightroom Keyboard Shortcuts PDFs for both Lightroom version 1 and the just released Lightroom 2.

Camera Raw 4.5 Update

This new version of the Camera Raw plug-in replaces the original Camera Raw plug-in that is installed with Adobe Creative Suite 3, Photoshop CS3, Photoshop Elements 6.0, and Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0 software (direct link is on the right side of landing page, under the heading LATEST UPDATES). Read More>>>

Photosynth

New Downloads

This free Microsoft application lets you create "synths" from large numbers of photos of the same scene or object. It's a compelling idea, although being Windows-only is something of a limitation.

Photosynth is a free Microsoft application that takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates to the next. You can access gigabytes of photos in seconds, view a scene from nearly any angle, find similar photos with a single click, and zoom in to make the smallest detail as big as your monitor. Read More>>>

Display Type

FF Trixie OT & FF Trixie Pro

Since its release in 1991, from “The X-Files” to “Atonement”, FF Trixie has served as the defacto typeface of mystery and intrigue. For years, it was the most convincing typewriter font available, but FontFont veteran Erik van Blokland was not satisfied. Early printing and operating systems could only handle so many points per font, so FF Trixie’s outlines weren’t as realistic as he wanted.

Orbe

A blackletter face with a unique taste of Portuguese calligraphy, Orbe manages to evoke a light and spontaneous feel despite its exotic flavor and flourished details. It’s no wonder this typeface comes from the same foundry that brought us Zanzibar and Incognito. Orbe is Rui Abreu’s first design for Fountain and, with an extensive character set, Fountain’s first OpenType release.

P22 Sniplash

Sniplash brings back the cartoons of the 1960s and ’70s, serving up sportive spirals and lively lines for packaging and parties.

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Digital color library kit

PANTONE FASHION + HOME color guide + BONUS GIFT – digital color library a $50.00 value

Chromatically arranged for ease of use, our PANTONE FASHION + HOME portable color guide enables every designer to accurately specify colors from design through production. Plus, with your bonus digital color library you can integrate the PANTONE FASHION + HOME color values into design software programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, CorelDRAW, Corel DESIGNER, Quark XPress and Macromedia Freehand. Providing optimized sRGB values, the PANTONE FASHION + HOME digital color library enables the best possible representation of PANTONE FASHION + HOME Colors on monitors and eliminates the need to adjust those colors in order to get them to display properly in designs and illustrations. Find out how we forecast new color trends. Special Price: $129.95 Regular Price: $195.00 SAVE: $65.05

Haptic

One of the major foundries that recently joined MyFonts is LucasFonts, led by Berlin-based Dutch designer Luc(as) de Groot. De Groot also teaches type design at the University of Applied Sciences in nearby Potsdam, and in doing so he is busy creating his own competition. Haptic by Henning Hartmut Skibbe was originally developed under Luc(as)’ supervision as a graduation project. Its retail version comes in an impressive range of seven weights — from Light to Black — each with matching italics, small caps and italic small caps.

Haptic was the result of a challenge. Henning Skibbe asked himself: “How much character can a typeface bear before losing legibility?” The answer is a delicate type family that offers maximum warmth and personality, yet meets all the requirements of an all-purpose text face. It was optimized for use in small sizes, but thanks to its soft shapes and subtle details it will work wonders as a headline face as well.

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BannerZest PRO
Yet another utility for quickly creating Flash-based banners and slideshows, this time for OS X.

Reel Cool Time

What do a bearded dog-lady, a fluffy lamb, and a filing cabinet have in common? They all star in The Control Master, made entirely of illustrations from CSA Images.

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Bree

Veronika Burian and José Scaglione met while completing their MAs in Type Design at the University of Reading, UK. They struck up a lasting working relationship, founding Type-Together, based in José’s native city of Rosario. The foundry’s output so far, with great text faces like Ronnia and Karmina, has been very promising. Bree is their most original font family to date. Based on Type-Together’s attractive logo, it combines an upright structure with italic-style shapes — witness the one-storey ‘a’, cursive ‘e’, and fluid ‘g’, ‘y’ and ‘z’. Alternate versions of these letters are available when a more classical look is desired. Technically, Bree is highly professional: it is impeccably drawn and comes as an OpenType family with four sets of numerals, ligatures, alternate characters, fractions, scientific superior/inferior figures and language support for over 40 languages.

Museo

Dutch designer Jos Buivenga decided to take a risk when submitting his first type family to MyFonts: he wanted three out of the five weights to be offered free of charge. His daring strategy paid off; many users noticed the spirited Museo and liked it so much they bought the other weights as well, pushing the new face straight to number one on our Starlets list. Museo is a lucid semi-serif family with simple, open forms and highly original details. It makes for striking headlines, but is also very readable in medium-sized texts. Museo supports a wide range of languages and comes with several extra ligatures and alternates.

Get Set to Win

What kick-starts your creative engine? Spend at least $100 in each of June, July, and August, and you could win up to $10,000 to get your motor running.

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Rouge

Rouge is what you might call a “novelty typeface”: witty and surprising, an alphabet that defies categorization. You can imagine members of a future tribe scribbling it on a stone wall in some apocalyptic science fiction movie. Rouge’s forms are eclectic and paradoxical: they are geometric while having a hand-made feel; several lowercase letters have uppercase shapes; some characters are strangely symmetric and simplified. If you allow us a little speculative theorization: Rouge is the alphabet remade as a set of pseudo-ritual symbols — just like the children’s myths based on an old View-Master reel in the third Mad Max film. But if you prefer to think it’s just a nice wacky font that is fun to play with — that’s fine with us.

New Downloads

Xara
One of the truly great Windows graphics application, the latest version of Xara is an ambitious attempt to go further in providing functionality not found elsewhere, while maintaining a reputation for raw speed. Highly recommended.

Our New Apartment

Lugging boxes, decoding assembly instructions, and keeping paint off the hardwood – setting up digs is hard work. People get their move on in this new Fancy disc

Louisiana

Lettering artist Charles Borges de Oliveira has published a handful of beautifully drawn brush script fonts in the best American signpainting tradition. Check out his energetic Sarah Script or the cheeky Bounce Script. Louisiana is different. Based on the lovely handwriting of Melanie Snedeker, it is less fancy, but just as confident. It’s informal and natural, while having just the right kind of regularity to make for comfortable reading. It’s one of those legible handwriting fonts that come in handy for many design jobs ... but also for writing a letter or invitation that looks personal without being sloppy.

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Liquid Resize Win | Mac
Available as a beta, this lets you resize an image free of traditional geometric limitations, while minimizing distortion using the technique of "seam carving."

Ragged and Jagged

Distressed type – it’s not just the stuff of Ray Gun layouts and gig posters. These rough faces dirty up the message with artful distortion and adroit noise.

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Eco-mmuters

Biking, boarding, bussing. Riding shank’s mare or zoning out on a ’burbs-bound train. For some, it’s about saving money. Others want to save the planet.

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Veer : Visual Elements Update

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Creatas Footage

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Need Music for Your Personal Projects?

Look no further, RoyaltyFreeMusic.com is here to help you at home as well as at work. Download royalty free music clips to use in your personal, educational and not-for-profit projects free of charge.

You read that right! We offer a great variety of music clips, music loops, beats, bumpers and stingers and sound effects for free at RoyaltyFreeMusic.com for personal use.

Need music for your professional needs? Be sure to check out RoyaltyFreeMusic.com's library of over 8,000 tracks and 10,000 sound effects for purchase and immediate download. Find out more >

Espioonage Acts

Sleuths snoop for the cold, hard truth, while villains, dames, and danger snap at their heels. CSA Images puts the magnifying glass on secret agents. See the slideshow

Partner Content: medicalpicture

With monthly additions, our medicalpicture collection continues to grow at AP Images.

As the exclusive distributor in North America, AP Images is proud to provide this unique and fascinating content to our clients.

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Set for the future

Space-age face-lifts on classic forms, dotty printer outputs, and experiments that skitter like techno beats. Forward-looking fonts for future speak. See the gallery

AP Images: In Focus

A statue of the former leader of the Republic of China (ROC) Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is decorated with funky glasses at the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, April 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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Dollar Sense

Everyone has to manage the green stuff. With research, attention, and help from the pros, these people do their best to ensure more comes in than goes out. See the Gallery.

AP Images: In Focus

Oslo's new opera building on Saturday April 12, 2008, a futuristic structure set to become an architectural landmark. (AP Photo/Scanpix, Kyrre Lien)

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Somos Atletico

Somos Hispanic Images get physical. See the slidesow

Science & Society Picture Library

Inspiration and Design
SSPL not only holds a market-leading collection of scientific and historical images. We are also a valuable resource among advertising, marketing and design professionals for eye-catching images of distinction. Explore our collection of creative photography or contact one of our research professionals for help in finding the perfect image. Science & Society

AP Images: In Focus

A broom is seen on the nose of a king size puppet of a ghost train during the set-up of the spring festival in Stuttgart, Germany, Tuesday, April 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)

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Comicraft

Comicraft's three most recent comic fonts include Ratatatat, a bold and hyperkinetic display face ideal for much more than simply the machine-gun onomatopoeia that it takes its name from. Mad Scientist is a goofy, humorous unicase with multiple alternates and ideal for those long nights in your secret basement lab design studio. Bryan Talbot, named for Lancashire's finest comic book artist, was made for the former's magnum opus Alice in Sunderland.

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INKSTER

Inkster breaks all the rules – it is capricious and unpredictable. Some letters have serifs, some don’t. Some are condensed, some are impossibly wide. Some lowercase letters have uppercase shapes. The contrasting characters bounce all over the baseline. It isn’t hard to imagine a book cover design using this font in slightly varying sizes to add to the fun. A powerful calligraphic roman, Inkster is your shortest route to a distinctive lettering style. It’s part of Typadelic’s Most Popular Collection.

Election 2008

US Presidential Election
November 4, 2008

AP Images is a one-stop shop for all 2008 US Elections-related coverage. More than 150 images are added daily to the Elections 2008 tab for up-to-date content. >> Elections 2008 Tab

Right: Democratic Presidential hopefuls Sen. Barack Obama, left, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican candidate John McCain, right, are reflected in teleprompters

Images that get results

Cast your eyes on our exclusive, timely voting images. Election year image choices tally up. Polls Open for Viewing.

ColorMunki Design

ColorMunki is the do everything solution that gives you the freedom to design with any color from the visible spectrum, even ones you never thought possible. Now you can swing from inspiration to production without losing color quality. And ColorMunki is so versatile, it's ready to help no matter where you grab your next idea. Find Out More Pantone.com

Best Design Links: Photography

Looking for links? Want to find the better sites? Check Out the - Best Design Links. The Samples below are from their Photography section, but that's just the tip of the ice berg. They have links for:

1. 3D Graphics
2. Audio
3. Icon Design
4. Illustration
5. Logo Design
6. Photography
7. Photoshop
8. PHP Scripts
9. Scrapbooking
10. Typography
11. Web Design

• Affordable Stock Photos (26) - Smaller stock photo companies offering quality images for just a few bucks. Often referred to as "microstock" agencies.
• Free Stock Photos (23) - A large collection of site providing stock photos and textures free of charge. Terms of use vary from site to site.
• Online Photo Editors (6) - Online applications that allow you to edit images directly in your browser.
• Photo Editing Software (8) - Tools to help you organize, edit, and enhance you photos.
• Stock Photo Agencies (6) - High-end stock photography agencies offering both rights-managed and royalty-free images.

Veer Type Update

Street posters, urban wear, concrete-walled bars – Rian Hughes’s DF Dukane is primed for the inner city. Coming from more sedate origins – lettering in battered microfiche reels – this display face has undeniable street cred. A Veer Exclusive $39
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Creatas Footage

Over 200 New Footage Clips Starting at $199
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