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» Friday Updates

Here’s coming at you, the late Friday Updates where I first would like to wish all US viewers of my blog a late happy thanksgiving weekend We may not celebrate it here in Sweden, but it is still good use wishing you a happy thanksgiving. After that I’m going to get started on the Friday updates!

First off, on the Creative Suite Tips and Tricks podcast, you’ve got a special thanksgiving episode, released just yesterday. It is about creating a cool three column brochure using InDesign and Photoshop! Also, the Revver upload form is now working (for those of you that don’t know, Revver is the site I use to host my videos) for me, so expect all tutorials I’ve been recording to come flying up! They are being added right now and I’ve added two text tutorials so far today!

Website Tipper - Web Designer Wall

I came across an awesome resource the other day if you are a web designer you have to check out the Web Designer Wall website. Created by the awesome and talented Nick La of N-Design Studio, Web Designer Wall is the most awesome site to get some tutorials, discussions and just in general keep up with the latest trends in the design area!

Engadget hosting major Black Friday give aways!

If you head over to the tech blog, Engadget you’ll see them hosting a lot of major and big give aways on cool gadgets and stuff for free! They’re holding these as contests and all you basically have to do is leave them a comment!

Im in a contest voting!

I was very kindly nominated for the Photograph of the Month award for December at the Photography Corner website. Now it is up to their community to vote for the best of the 14 nominees! Keep your fingers crossed!

Have a wonderful weekend!

I’m hoping for some nice photo opportunities this weekend so I’m going to end by wishing you a very wonderful weekend! Enjoy the time off, I know I sure will!

» Tuesday Update Galore

I’m back to the normal schedule this week with my news postings so here are the Tuesday Updates coming to you right now!

Firstly, if you are looking at entering one of the best photographic workshops you are likely to encounter, you’ll be looking at an exclusive workshop with one of the best photographers of today, Jay Maisel, and itt will take place Monday, December 17 to Friday December 21, from 9am to 10pm each day. The cost for this (meals included) is $5,000 and it is limited to just nine people, first come, first served! Get more info by sending a mail to jay@jaymaisel.com or by calling 212.431.5013. Also, if you haven’t seen Jay’s work, check out his website here!

Website to guide you in computer spec building

If you are looking to build a new PC and you need a little help on the specs, check out the website called “Recommended Spec“. They have a Basic, Mid and High spec for a wide range of applications, Audio, Graphic, Gaming etc and could be a useful resource if you are looking to build a computer in near future.

Photoshop World ‘08 Spring - Orlando, Florida

Photoshop World ‘08 the east-coast or spring edition has been announced and it is going to be in Orlando, Florida from April 2-5 where April 1 is going to be the pre-con day! Go over to the Photoshop World website to read more about the exciting event!

Want to win a copy of Lightroom?

If you are feeling up to win a copy of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom then you ought to check out the latest edition of Photoshop User TV from the NAPP folks! The prize is amongst others a full copy of the software (other prices being a NAPP membership, iPhone Book, iStockPhoto cap and more)!!

Finally…inspiration!

To cap of with some inspiration I’m going to leave you looking at two sites depending on your interest. If you are interested in some cool photography, take a look at the website of Andy Hornby who is a very talented photographer shooting many interesting photos!
If your interest lies in cool websites, you really need to take a look at 2Advanced Studios. These guys are really awesome and their company site is just real stunning! So go and have a look at it right now

» Adobe releases a few upgrades!

Today, Adobe has released quite a few updates today and it is one especially very awaited one. It is Lightroom 1.3 as well as ACR 4.3, Photoshop 10.0.1 and Bridge 2.1.1. I have a brief rundown of the changes in the upgrade the most awaited again being Lightroom 1.3 with support for Mac OS X 10.5 and some additional cameras! So hit the Read more button for a rundown or follow the links below here to download the updates from the Adobe site or just use the Adobe Updater to download the updates!

Lightroom: Mac | Win
Photoshop: Mac | Win
Bridge: Mac | Win
Camera Raw: Mac | Win

» Wednesday Quickies

This week is being very hectic for me with little time on the evenings when I get home since I’m working long hours, but I’ll manage to get this update to you anyway containing the news so far. Myself I’m battling a cold and trying to work full time in the camera store. It’s amazing by the way, loads of cool gear and stuff and it is really fun doing adverts for stuff and selling stuff as well!  This is all why I haven’t posted a lot this week.

Change the blue dots in the Leopard dock!

So of course there are a program that can change the little blue icon in the dock that allows you to change it back to the old black triangles if you want. You can find the little program, that allows you to change them whenever you want, called Dock Delight here.

Creative Suite Tips & Tricks Podcast coming…

I had some server problems which caused this Sunday episode to be late. I will have it up tomorrow!

Camera Opinions

Tomorrow I will be posting a little larger post with some more stuff for you to read that will have some opinions on some different cameras that I’m around all day this week and some other cool stuff that I think is pretty cool Check back tomorrow for that.

That’s it for this quickie Wednesday update, have a great rest of the week! Oh and in case you were wondering about the Daily Quick-Tips, they are coming back starting on Monday!

» Sunday Blog Tips

So I did promise you some blog tips this weekend when I didn’t post them yesterday, I’ve been getting some mails about it, so here they are! (Truth is that I wasn’t feeling all well yesterday and had to rest) They are all part of my RSS feeds that I read every day and they are really useful. I don’t get any kickbacks from posting them, I just do it because I like sharing good blogs and I get asked what I visit a lot as well.

» The Friday News

Alright so here we have the current Friday news with some cool goodies and some things to check out during the weekend as well! Also, tomorrow I’ll be posting a new little list of blogs I visit often so check that out tomorrow

Scott Kelby and Terry White’s giftguides are released!

Past week we saw the release of Terry White’s holiday gift guide only to this week see the release of the guru, Scott Kelby’s annual holiday gift guide which is the feature of the Layers Magazine and luckily of course, there is an online version, so go and check out Scott Kelby’s Holiday Gonzo Gadget Gift Guide over at the Layers Magazine site! My own gift guide will be coming in the next week when I have had a little more time putting all together!

Upcoming contest tip!

Without saying too much I’m just gonna give you a heads up of a big contest arriving very soon on the awesome site Photography Corner! So make sure you register at their forums and get ready for the big contest! (I promise you that it is worth the while and that it will be as large as I’m saying it is ;))

Discount coupon for y’all!

I have a little discount coupon that will give you a great 20% off a web design from XLD Studios! When ordering the design or requesting a quote, make sure to input in the message field also the coupon code, which is: “EB30pc” and 20% will be drawn off from the quote/order total!

» It’s been radio silence week…

It’s really been a dead week around here, I know but I’ve had so much things to do for school with homework and tests that I really have not had much time home off at all therefore the “radio silence week”. For now I have no more tests until week 48 so it should be cool and the coming week will be “work experience” week meaning I’m gonna be working full time in a camera store (my choice that ;)) for a week, so that we get a feel of how it is to work… It should be a blast and I expect that I should be able to give you all some opinions on the latest stuff, meaning the Canon 40D and the new lenses as well as the iPod Touch this coming week, as I’ll be able to try them (and sell them even :D)!

Continue to read on today as we get to the Friday News Update!

» Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Review

So after using the new Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard for about one week now I feel I’ve gotten into most of the features that is new and that you may use everyday which I’ll start off by saying, is not near all the 300 new features, examples include the fact that there is a lot of features that are to do with improved functioning or networking such things I do not use more in-depth in my day to day work on my computer.

I’m basing this review on the functionality of the 10.5.0 release of Leopard since that is what I have running under a MacBook 2.0 GHz 80gb HDD, 1gb RAM with a LaCie 250gb external drive and it is from that I base on how smooth things are running.

» Saturday News Update

This was really supposed to be a Friday news update but I had some things to do and this got delayed a bit but here you have some news update and some cool stuff!

First off, today I’m sending you to check the cool photographer Daniel Groszek! He’s a great photographer shooting a little this and that but don’t let that fool you, because he’s great at all of those “this and that’s”! Check out his site here!

Sweet contest at Peachpit Press!

Are you feeling up to win $1,000 worth of photo gear, if you aren’t then just skip down to the next update but if you are read on Peachpit Press has launched a contest called “The $1,000 Question” and  now it’s really cool, because it is also really simple! They’ve asked a couple of well known photographers some questions about what gear they’d recommend in photography. Now just go to their page, read what the experts have to say and watch their clips and after that, you can enter the contest by voting on the package you would want, and the winner will get $1,000 to spend on that package! Pretty cool huh! Check it out right here!

 Leaving you with some stuff to do this weekend!

Alright so this is getting quite short and sweet in terms of news, but since it is weekend I’m gonna leave you with a couple of sites and stuff to check out (you can do it in the week as well if you want ;))! These are sites I regularly visit or have in my RSS reader because they are just so very useful and cool!

.: Photography Corner - If you are into photography, you cannot afford to miss out this very cool and sweet site! They have the most amazing forum, where you can get comments and critique on your photos and if that wasn’t enough! They have these cool monthly contests (yes plural!). The Contest Corner Challenge and the Photograph of the Month booth with awesome prices. Check out Photography Corner!

.: Photoshop Insider - This blog by none other than Scott Kelby is the first place I go to every day to check out the latest happenings and news! It’s an awesome blog with a little bit of everything by Scott! Check it out!

Now I guess this will take up much of your time, so I’m gonna continue with more sites some other time Have a great weekend everyone!

» QT: Is your marquee tool in Photoshop showing up with a crosshair?

If your marquee tool selection icon on your document, or in any other selection tool icons are showing up as a crosshair that is because your caps lock key is pressed and activated. Deactivating the caps lock will make the tool icon go back to its normal state in your document.