Thank you Presentation Zen for finding this cool little video about typesetting the old fashioned way…I mean the really old fashioned way.

If you have any interest in smart phones, especially Palm-based ones, then you need to read this incredibly thoughtful post from engadget. It was posted way back on August 21st, and a lot of you who actually keep up with your RSS feeds have already read or at least heard about this post, but it is incredible.

Peter Rojas, Ryan Block, and Joshua Topolsky have done an exceedingly good job at calling Palm to the mat on their lack of innovation, and ridiculous grip on past successes.

I have a lot of friends who have Treos, and all of them have MAJOR complaints about their phone, and the scary thing is Palm doesn’t seem to know that they are quickly becoming irrelevant.

I remember 4 years ago when Treos were all the rage. They were an exceptional answer to the lack of choice in the email phone market. Blackberries were great if all you did was email. I knew a number of people who carried Blackberries and a separate phone. Treo answered that problem. The issue is Palm hasn’t done very much since then, and all their competitors have.

There are a ton of sexy, thin smartphones out there, and people would have to be stupid to invest in a Treo now. Palm has to do something, and Engadget is calling them on it, and I applaud them.

Sorry this post is so late compared to the original article. I have been incredibly busy…too busy to blog.

This is a comment that I tried to leave at fastcompany.com, but couldn’t because I am not allowed to post comments. It would have been a comment below a blog entry about how Corel has started a new service called Virtual Garage. It is an endeavor to give voice to those who have a good idea for Corel, but with no place to share it, and no one who will listen.

So, I thought I would post it to my blog.

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Here is some user-experience for fastcompany.com. Please, please remove that exceedingly annoying pop-up that asks me to fill out a survey. I was trying to watch the slideshow about Wal-Mart and their new sustainability initiatives, and I had to kill that window at least 4 or 5 times. How many times do I have to say no. No means no.

Great site though. It seems to be very forward looking and in-touch with tomorrows leaders. You really seem to have a moistened finger extended in search of wind direction… Why then are you using porn site tactics?

Keep up the good work, but keep your content in the one window I opened on purpose!

There is a super-cool site that was mentioned on this weeks Net-At-Night podcast. It is called My Moleskine. It is a site where a guy in Italy posts the sketches that he makes in his moleskine notebook.

The navigations is a little strange, but I am sure you can figure it out, but suffice it to say, he is a great artist, and I found the site a lot of fun to cruise around in.

Oooh I couldn’t be more excited. Adobe had a big announcement today to tell the world that the new version of their Creative Suite is ready to hit the street. It is kind of bittersweet because it costs so much to get in on the suite and even though it isn’t quite as expensive, it costs a ton to upgrade.

Adobe does a great job of making their updates just good enough to really get you licking your lips for the new version.

CS3 is the first full version from Adobe since they acquired Macromedia, the software company behind Flash.

As a creative director of a web start up and Organizational Development company, I make videos, layout books, design web graphics (Note the GenoNow Graphic in the top left corner..) I need just about every tool that Adobe makes. I am a jack of all trades because my job necessitates that. That means that I am going to have to go to bat for an upgrade in the near future.

Right now I have CS2, and I love it. I can’t wait to play with the newest version. I am going to have to do some more exploration to see what aspects of the new version drive me to open the old wallet.

One thing that I know is that they now have no less than 4 CS3 packages to choose from. Here are the four versions:

1. Design Premium - Which contains:
   InDesign
   Photoshop
   Illustrator
   Flash
   Dreamweaver
   Acrobat
2. Web Premium - Which contains:
   Dreamweaver
   Flash
   Photoshop
   Illustrator
   Fireworks
   Contribute
   Acrobat
3. Production Premium - Which contains
   After Effects
   Premiere
   Photoshop
   Flash
   Illustrator
   and Adobe’s replacement for Audition, Soundbooth
4. Master Collection - Which contains
   …EVERYTHING

Of course, there is a part of me that longs for the CS3’s Master Collection that has it all. But upon further inspection, there are a lot of things in the Production Premium collection that I won’t use. I use Sony’s Vegas, and I am very loyal to that platform. It is just down and dirty fast…I likes it. So, that eliminates Premiere. Well, then again, I would use everything else in that package. I don’t know what to do.
In the past there used to be two worlds of Adobe. The print/design world and the video world. Now, with the release of CS3, those lines are getting blurred. And for good reason. We are in an era of fast computers that allow designers and creative types to branch out and explore new mediums.

I feel just as comfortable in the video world as in the print world as in the web world. I am not a deep dive expert in any of those worlds, but I’ve got the chops to hang in all of them.

This all happened because computing power has risen to the point that we can now do all those things relatively inexpensively. There is going to be some hard thinking and selling in the future when it comes to this upgrade. I’ve got to start working on my pitch right now.

The good news is that no one is getting their hands on the new version until the end of April. I am sure it is going to be a little longer before I get my dirty little hands on an upgrade.

Brother have I found a new site for all you design heads out there. I don’t care if you don’t fancy yourself a design head, you at least need to take a look at this site. There is some cool stuff to look at. Some of it is weird, but it is all interesting.

Hey, you aren’t doing anything right now anyway, check it.

I have an older HP Pavilion ze5300 laptop that I’ve had for a few years. I have a huge gripe about it. The fan is sooo loud. What is up with that?

I know a few other people who have HP laptops and their fans are also ridulously loud. I know that these laptops run hot, but come on HP, can’t you get some quieter fans. It is a major distraction when I am in a meeting, and I can’t hear the other people talking over the sound of the fan.

You might be saying, come on, I have a laptop with a fan, I can hear it but it’s not that bad. Well, you aren’t hearing this one. It is excessive.

On my next laptop, or notebook (as they are calling them these days) I am going to really listen to the fan to see if it is quiet or not. Surely there are better ways to ventilate a laptop without turning it into a hovercraft.

Ok, this may be the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. It is a product from Philips that allows you to use a virtualy paint can “filled with colorful light” that allows you to paint on the wall with colored light. I know, I know, you are saying “Wha…what are you talking about.” You have to see it for yourselves.

I would love to get this for the kiddos, and then play with it myself after they go to bed. You will have to check it out.

MacScoop is reporting that we can possibly expect a black iMac. It seems like a pretty safe bet, but you know about mac rumors, we’ll believe it when we see it.

All that said, it would be a pretty mac!

It’s always nice to find free stuff. And, where is the biggest collection of free? Why the Internet of course! Free vector graphics, free fonts, and other stuff. And this isn’t spam. Fun!

As a designer its always handy to have a collection of pre-made vector objects available to use in your designs, whether its illustrator files or photoshop shapes - here we have dugg out the very best for you.

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