TIME inc. makes another mistake – Business 2...

A few months ago, I discovered Business 2.0, a small magazine in the Time empire. I have read every issue since over and over again in the room where I do most of my reading. I have bought the past few issues off the stands. I bought the October issue with every intent of filling out the subscription card this month replacing my Popular Photography subscription. I was very disappointed to read the banner across the top of...

All Q&A Session – July 2007

I don’t do it too often, but this month I decided to hold an all Q&A (2 hours) user group meeting. It truly is amazing how many questions 30 or 40 ravenous computer users can generate. Sometimes one question leads to another, and an entire “topic” can take up a half hour. You have to be at one of the meetings to truly experience the type of knowledge and information that gets shared and explored. Some of...

Free alternatives to Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop,...

I was asked today to make a choice between Adobe Illustrator (high end art illustration program for creating custom graphics) and its competitor Corel Draw. Both are great programs and in the hands of a ‘digital artist’ they produce excellent results for logos, advertising layout, custom clip-art, etc. The problem is that you do need to be quite experienced in the programs to get the most out of them and they cost...