...or the entire page saved as a lo-rez JPG.

Had to do it.

There are Free Geek recycling/rebuilding centers in the following cities:

    * Free Geek Portland, Oregon
    * Free Geek Arkansas (Fayetteville, Arkansas)
    * Free Geek Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
    * Free Geek Columbus (Columbus, Ohio)
    * Free Geek Michiana (Michigan/Indiana)
    * Born Again Technologies (Tennessee)
    * Free Geek Vancouver (Vancouver, BC, Canada)

Photoshop contest. Use this sign however you see fit. I'll take a crack at it later this afternoon if I have time.

I bought one of Morty's AI manuals a few years ago when I was learning Illy. One of the "Learn in 24 Hours" series...which took me more like 24 days because I did one chapter every evening. I''d like to read his blog to see if there's anything about dealing with transparency.

You know how it is - hot, blonde, and DUMB. Before my Bossman hired her, she had been fired after two weeks in another shop because they couldn't stand her putting on a full face of makeup while sitting at her desk. Oh, that and she was heroin addict.

Personally, no. The rare times I do use it I am forever mousing down for the Dock. I still like OS9, but I like OSX better.

9 is still being used here and there. The two jobs I had over the past three years were still running 9. At one shop I upgraded the main prepress Mac to OSX - it was time. The RIP Mac had to stay on 9 due to ECRM not having OSX-compatible software. At another shop, 75% of the work is still being done on OS9 Macs (I saw it as a 'refusal to learn' type of scenario). I was the only one with an OSX workstation, so all the InDesign jobs came my way, while the other Macs were kicking out jobs using Photoshop 5.5 and Quark 4.

Oh gawd, only in the past couple of years I've learned it takes a special breed to work in prepress and stick with it. When training someone or meeting a new employee, I can usually tell within one hour if they have what it takes.

A couple of years ago I had to train one of those "fresh out of the graphics classes at the local community college" types. The extent of her experience was knowing how to color boxes in Illustrator and type in Quark, and I was asked to train her as my back up. Not only was she dumber than a box of rocks - she just DID NOT WANT TO LEARN. This is the most frustrating thing. Showing her how to impose sheets in InDesign "OMG, this is hard. I don't want to do it..." Trying to explain how to manage fonts - CLUELESS. The best part was when I turned her loose for a couple hours to work alone and after returning from lunch I noticed one of the internal hard drive icons (named Squirrel Drive, of course) missing from the Mac desktop - luckily it was easy to remount with Disk Utility. But even better was the next time I used Sherlock/Find it had the last query still typed in and it was...."Squirl drive" (not even spelled correctly). Presumably she just decided to delete one of the hard drives (why?) and then tried to find it. After one day with this girl I told Bossman she was not right for the job, so she ended up being a CSR with a "degree in Graphic Design". MORON.

I have so many more stories. There are a lot of stupid people out there and I hate wasting time trying to teach them things they refuse to learn.

Foxmarks
I love this addon for Firefox - now I have the same set of bookmarks at home and at work. No more "what was that site?...I have it bookmarked at home".

Stumble Upon
What a time waster AND a great resource all in one. In just a couple days of use I have found so many new bookmark-worthy sites.

Anyone else want to share addons that you find helpful?