Hosted by Jeff Gamet and Jay Nelson of Design Tools Monthly.

Foil Lux: Infinite Colors on Foil
The Hidden UPS Control in Mac OS X
To StuffIt or Not
Tip: Save PDFs as Lower Versions
Tip: Don’t Crop, Trim!
Tip: Paste From Library in InDesign
Tip: Set Up a Grid of Guides in QuarkXPress
Website: Strange Statues

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John O’Green, President and CEO of BossDEV joins hosts Scott Sheppard and Brad Wright to talk about some of their latest projects that include advergaming, websites, custom software development and interactive design in this agency profile. John explains how their development team leverage the latest Mac OS X technologies to deliver solutions for a broad range of platforms including the Nintendo Wii system. For more information visit: http://www.bossdev.com /

Philip Hodgetts with the Open TV Network Weekly Mac POST News / Steve Weinrabe, Photographer/Author aka “Mr. Photoshop” joins Inside Mac to discuss his latest book “Adobe Photoshop and the Art of Photography: A Comprehensive Introduction” which is a great introduction to Photoshop tools for beginner and novice photographers. Steve also talks about his upcoming seminars and training. Find out more at http://www.mrphotoshop.com /

Rich Harrington, Author/Instructor/President, RHEDPixel joins Inside Mac for a rant on his recent experiences using Intuit’s Quickbooks financial application for Mac OS X. Rich gives the details and warnings for any Mac user planning to install this program as during the upgrade process the Quickbooks updater may delete all contents of the Desktop and cause you to lose valuable financial data. Rich also shares some news on his latest books, podcasts, and projects. For more information visit: http://www.photoshopforvideo.com, http://www.rastervector.com, and www.rhedpixel.com /

Andy Shalat the Mac Design Out Of The Box author chatted about his design tip of the week. For more about Andy and his latest works: www.shalat.com /

Mark Miller, Senior Art Director, The Happy Corp. joins hosts Scott and Brad to share how a semi-secret underground society NYC based creative professionals celebrate the cult of Mac OS X, meet and network, and collaborate on projects that hope to make a difference, promote personal growth, and push technologies to the edge. Mark, whose design has won numerous prestigious award including the NAPP Photoshop World Guru Award, also maintains a personal creativity blog at: http://www.stretchdaily.com. For more information on LVHRD and The Happy Corp. visit: http://www.thehappycorp.com and http://www.lvhrd.org / http://www.insidemacradio.com/radio-shows/imr-12292007

Nitro PDF Software, the company that revolutionized PDF software with its launch of the first true alternative to Adobe® Acrobat®, today announced the acquisition of PDF Download, one of the Web’s most popular PDF products. The free Firefox extension helps millions of users regain control over the PDF files they encounter online, making browser crashes and slow downloads a thing of the past, while offering a free PDF-to-HTML conversion service.

CA (PRWEB) December 20, 2007 — Nitro PDF Software, the company that revolutionized PDF software with its launch of the first true alternative to Adobe® Acrobat®, today announced the acquisition of PDF Download, one of the Web’s most popular PDF products.

The free Firefox extension — one of the most popular of all time — helps millions of users regain control over the PDF files they encounter online, making browser crashes and slow downloads a thing of the past, while offering a free PDF-to-HTML conversion service.

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Windows, Linux users should download new Player; Apple patched Mac OS X’s version Monday
 (Computerworld) — Adobe Systems Inc. patched its Flash Player earlier this week, fixing nine critical vulnerabilities that hackers could use to attack Windows, Mac and Linux machines.

“Multiple input validation errors have been identified in Flash Player 9.0.48.0 and earlier that could lead to the potential execution of arbitrary code,” Adobe said in the advisory posted on the company’s site. “These vulnerabilities could be accessed through content delivered from a remote location via the user’s Web browser, e-mail client or other applications that include or reference the Flash Player.”

Danish vulnerability tracker Secunia ASP collectively tagged the nine bugs as “highly critical,” its second-from-the-top threat ranking.

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XChange International, the source for extended technology worldwide, are pleased to announce the release of a free update for users of PitStop Professional version 7.x. PitStop Professional is an Adobe® Acrobat® plug-in indispensable for every graphic arts and publishing professional. PitStop Professional 7 is the de facto standard for graphic arts and publishing professionals needing to preflight, edit and fix PDF files. No other preflight software comes close to offering PitStop Professional 7′s comprehensive range of tools, giving you unprecedented control over your PDFs no matter what your workflow requirements.From hands-on fixes to fully-automated PDF preflighting, correction and modification, quality is guaranteed throughout by Enfocus award-winning Certified PDF® technology, making sure that every PDF leaving your workstation is bulletproof as it goes to press.

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The Industry Measure today released the latest results of its twice-yearly survey of the graphic design and production markets, the most recent in a series of surveys that the company has conducted since 1996. The 246-page report contains the results of an extensive mail survey of the creative markets, and features The Industry Measure’s standard “boilerplate” questions about Business Conditions, Business Challenges, Sales Opportunities, and Planned Investments (as well as 12-month Investment Projections of more than 100 equipment, hardware, and software categories, including expected number of units shipped and dollar values). The Winter 2007/2008 survey also asked several specialty questions on such topics as stock photography (how many images per month creative companies buy as well as how much they spend); the extent to which creative companies are working on wide-format output projects, what the top applications are, and where those jobs are output; the perceived effects of and responses to the recent postal rate hike; the extent to which creative companies are working on multichannel marketing projects for clients, and which media channels comprise those projects; and more.

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Rose Yao, Product Manager, Google joins hosts Scott Sheppard and Brad Wright to discuss their latest Google Gadgets for Mac OS X. After successfully launching Google Desktop for Mac, Rose explains that Google was committed in taking their enhanced search tool to the next level. Unlike Apple Widgets, Google Gadgets include developer tools that let you create or add a gadget online, and have access to the information on your Mac, PC, or favorite website or blog. Gadgets work with Desktop and your existing Widgets to add functionality and push fresh information right to your Mac or your iPhone. To download your FREE tools visit: http://desktop.google.com/mac or http://www.google.com/mac /

Philip Hodgetts with the Open TV Network Weekly Mac POST News / Kristi Fox, Product Manager, Epson joins Inside Mac to share the latest features and details about their PictureMate personal photo lab products. The PictureMate Dash ($99) and PictureMate Zoom ($199) produces incredible prints quickly and automatically directly from your camera and digital memory devices. The PictureMate Zoom even includes a 3.6′ photo viewer LCD screen and built-in CD burner for sharing and archiving your favorite photographs. The PictureMate series is portable and offers a carrying case and battery pack making it perfect to take on the road letting you share your pictures instantly. The PictureMate produces gorgeous high-quality prints in about 37 seconds per image. For more information and ideas visit: http://www.mypicturemate.com /

This week, Inside Mac Radio profiles David A. Wagner, Digital Photography Studio Manager, Graphic Systems Group (GSG) One Shot who shares some behind the scenes details on the amazing agency production work they are doing using their integrated Mac OS X tools and workflow. David explains the scope of their work and how their digital workflows help them save time and improve turnaround for their clients. GSG is known as America’s largest production agency doing work for high-profile sports, beauty, and other commercial advertising campaigns. For more information about GSG visit:  http://www.gsgnyc.com or http://www.gsgnyc.com/oneshot/ For more information about David’s personal work visit: http://www.dawagner.com /

Andy Shalat the Mac Design Out Of The Box author chatted about his design tip of the week. /

Mark Geeves, Vice President Americas, Ciba/MetalFX joins Inside Mac to talk about their innovative 5-color metallic system. Designers love incorporating special effects into their creations, in the past adding metallic effects to a design had been nearly impossible. MetalFX utilizes a CMYK color set printed with either a gold or silver metallic base using standard print ratios and tools that when combined with their application plug-ins make it easy to specify and print incredible new design effects. Visit their website for more information about The MetalFX Design Kit, request samples, or find printers at: http://www.metal-fx.com/designer.cfm or http://www.metal-fx.com / http://www.insidemacradio.com/radio-shows/imr-12222007

Vulnerability identifier: APSB07-20

CVE number: CVE-2007-6242, CVE-2007- 4768, CVE-2007-5275, CVE-2007- 6243, CVE-2007- 6244, CVE-2007- 6245, CVE-2007-4324, CVE-2007- 6246, CVE-2007-5476

Platform: All platforms

Affected software versions: Adobe Flash Player 9.0.48.0 and earlier, 8.0.35.0 and earlier, and 7.0.70.0 and earlier.
Summary

Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player that could allow an attacker who successfully exploits these potential vulnerabilities to take control of the affected system. A malicious SWF must be loaded in Flash Player by the user for an attacker to exploit these potential vulnerabilities. Users are recommended to update to the most current version of Flash Player available for their platform.
Affected software versions

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Quark Inc. announced today that it has created a book outlining how QuarkXPress® 7 can be integrated with Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 to gain maximum benefit from both design tools. Written by Quark® internal experts, the book details how users can work with QuarkXPress 7 as well as Adobe applications such as Illustrator®, Photoshop®, Dreamweaver® and Flash® to unlock the full potential of all their design software.

QuarkXPress 7 now has better integration with Photoshop and Illustrator tools than ever before. Through standards like SWF, XHTML and CSS, QuarkXPress users can publish across media both independently and alongside Adobe Creative Suite applications, like Adobe Flash and Adobe Dreamweaver. The book outlines in more detail how QuarkXPress works with Creative Suite and the best practices that users should take when using these applications.

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CARLSTADT, N.J.,- Pantone, Inc., the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, announced myPANTONE.com, an online community for creative professionals and color enthusiasts dedicated to color exploration, inspiration and palette sharing.

Users can join myPANTONE.com free-of-charge and explore the latest Pantone-forecasted trend palettes for graphics, fashion, home and interiors, or review, post comments and rate other member’s palettes. Users can also download the myPANTONE™ palettes software at no cost to create and share their own color palettes.

myPANTONE.com works in conjunction with the recently announced myPANTONE palettes software, an interactive color workspace for working with colors and a component of the new PANTONE® Goe™ System.

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A GelSprinter Product Designed with the Small Office in Mind
Ricoh Americas Corporation, the leading provider of digital office equipment, today introduced the GX2500, a new color printer for the small office utilizing Ricoh’s GelSprinter™ technology.

The GX2500 is the first in the line of Ricoh GelSprinter products that is specifically designed for workgroups of up to three users. The GX2500 produces documents at 28 pages per minute (ppm) in both color and black and white using an enhanced viscous ink formulation. Vivid color documents are made possible by GelSprinter technology, which is not only waterproof and fade resistant, it also averts any smearing and bleed-through.

“Ricoh is excited to now provide a GelSprinter product to users in the small office environment,” said Ron Potesky, vice president of Corporate Product Marketing, Ricoh Americas Corporation. “No matter the size, every business has a need to produce high quality documents. The GX2500 will give small businesses the opportunity to reap the benefits of a high-end printer at an affordable, entry-level cost.”

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Hosted by Michael Huggins, RGD

This week.
Were going to continue our discussion of adding value to your design services so you can justify, charge and retain the highest fees possible in your business.

And for this podcast that means that we are still focusing on creating content. But this episode isn’t about creating content to market your services – it’s about creating content for your design projects. Which will result in making more money for you and your business.

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Hosted by Jeff Gamet and Jay Nelson of Design Tools Monthly.

PIA/GATF 2008 Employee Recognition Calendar
2008 Calendar Templates for Photoshop
Professional Calendar Templates for InDesign, QuarkXPress & Illustrator
Free Book: Integrating QuarkXPress with Adobe’s Creative Suite
Free Guide: Digital Photography for Print Production
Free Video: Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator
Free Shortcuts Guide for Illustrator CS3
Special Report: CDs, DVDs and Archiving
Holiday Gift Guides: Ours & Terri Stone’s

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Kirk Paulsen, Senior Director Applications Product Marketing, Apple joins hosts Scott Sheppard and Brad Wright to share some tips and ideas for using iMovie ’08. Find out how take your best holiday moments, create a video newsletter and stay connected to friends and family or upload them to YouTube and more! To learn more about iMovie ’08 visit: http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie or http://www.apple.com/.mac /

Philip Hodgetts with the Open TV Network Weekly Mac POST News / Sam Levin, President, Sam Levin Consulting shares his holiday gift ideas for your favorite mac lover with the latest mac friendly video gadgets. To learn more visit: http://www.samlevin.com /

Paul Kent, Vice President Macworld, IDG Expo tells Scott and Brad about the exciting events planned at this years Macworld 2008 Expo. For more details, registration, and travel information visit : http://www.macworldexpo.com /

Andy Shalat the Mac Design Out Of The Box author chatted about his design tip of the week. /

John Swinimer, PR Manager, AMD joins Inside Mac to explain how to download and record analog and HDTV right from your Mac with the ATI TV Wonder 650 Combo USB kit. For more information visit: http://ati.amd.com/products/tvwonder650/usbmac/index.html

CNet - Stephen Shankland
Whether this is good news or bad news depends on whether you’re buying or selling photos at iStockphoto, but the Getty Images subsidiary’s prices will go up in 2008.

According to the new fee schedule, the cheapest image will still cost 1 credit, or $1.30, though that price diminishes when credits are purchased in larger quantities. However, a small image increases from 2 to 3 credits, a medium from 4 to 5, a large from 6 to 10, an extra large from 10 to 15, and an extra extra large from 15 to 20. In addition, credits purchased in modest quantities cost slightly more. (Size is based on the pixel dimensions of the image. For example, an extra small is up to 300×400 pixels, and an extra extra large is 3300×4900.)

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Corel to Close Digital Imaging Facility in Minneapolis, Take $2.2 Million 4th-Qtr Charge
November 28, 2007: 05:55 PM EST

NEW YORK (Associated Press) – Graphics and digital imaging software company Corel Corp. said Wednesday it will close its digital imaging facility in Minneapolis and incur a $2.2 million one-time restructuring charge in the fourth quarter.

Canada-based Corel said it wants to increase its focus on the digital media market by consolidating its digital media operations in China and Silicon Valley. The company did not say how many employees work at the Minneapolis facility.

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First Annual Homecoming for Academy of Art University Draws Crowd of Leading Graphic Designers

The first annual Homecoming for the Academy of Art University last week brought together 135 respected designers representing more than 90 nationally and internationally recognized design firms, all alumni of the School of Graphic Design, Academy of Art University. A juried alumni exhibition, mounted at the Academy’s 79 Gallery at 79 New Montgomery, featured work of alumni for such clients as Adobe Systems Inc., award winning See Magazine, The North Face, CLIF Bar, and Gmund, the world-renowned paper manufacturer. The exhibit is available for public viewing through January 2, 2008.

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Orbitfiles.com Re-launches, Unveiling a Great Way to Manage Files Online

Orbitfiles.com users can now experience a smarter and more well-organized way to manage their files online.

Orbitfiles.com, a leading online backup and file storage provider with over 149,000 users has re-launched, unveiling a totally new and smart way to manage files online. New website design and logo have been introduced creating a fresher and user friendly managing files environment. New platform has also social network features, such as making friends as well as selling and buying files from other Orbitfiles.com users.

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Xerox is giving its digital printing customers access to more accurate and vibrant colours through Pantone’s new Goe colour system.

The system, which took more than four years to develop, comes with more than 2 000 new Pantone colours and works in concert with the original Pantone matching system to deliver exact ways of measuring and communicating colour.

This enables designers and printers to produce precise, lively colours in personalised direct-mail pieces, catalogues, photo books and other marketing collateral.

“Our customers are using the power of digital colour daily to create personalised marketing material and demand the highest quality output for these projects,” says Keith Knott, divisional manager of production systems group at Bytes Documents Solutions, sole authorised distributor of Xerox products and solutions to 24 sub-Saharan countries.

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