Caffeine + InDesign = ?

A good op-ed piece from Garry Barker, The Age. Based on an interview with one of Australia’s leading Design gurus, Wayne Rankin. Design of the Time: using InDesign as a multi-media development tool. Wayne and Miek McHugh run Ultra Training, and are doing a series of training CDs for Adobe applications.

High on caffeine. Actually to the point of feeling drunk. Too much coffee, too many short sentences. Emails down from 44 to 18.

Google, Lookout, PocketPC

google motherload: Google Advanced Search Operators. Just like “photoshopping” images, googling for information is almost a verb.

There are two major applications I live in: Excel and Outlook. Lookout is a plugin/extension to Outlook that permits very fast, intelligent searching across your Outlook folders. This saves me many minutes per day.

Another recent addition to the gadget list is a Pocket PC. Being able to browse the web and mail from a very small handheld.

InDesign Plugins

Thanks Andrew for spotting this: For InDesign 2.0 and CS: MultiDo: To celebrate the launch of EasyCatalog, we are offering a free plug-in that allows you to perform multiple undo or redo operations in one step using new undo multiple and redo multiple menu options. The menu will dynamically update to reflect the 100 most recent operations.

60th Anniversary of D-Day

60th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings. You’ve probably seen the deservedly saturation coverage on the TV news. Sadly, the 60th is probably the last major anniversary that the veterans will experience. As Stephen Ambrose has said, this generation was probably the greatest.

To give D-Day an Australian flavour: we did have sailors and airman who served during the Normandy campaign. In Arromaches, there is the Mus�e D�barquement. Inside the museum is a RAAF Hawker Typhoon pilot who died during the campaign (18th June 1944, flak). 25 year old Pilot Officer Don Mason from Wagga Wagga, NSW. He served in the 198th Squadron, RAF, Manston. His remains and plane were recovered in 1942. His service uniform was donated to the museum by the family.