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Can you have too much white space in your graphic design?

Can you have too much white space in your graphic design? I doubt it! This is an excellent example of using white space on a billboard design. The Louis C.K. HBO special is the ONLY ad I actually remember from Times Square!

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How to fix Aperture 3.4 upgrade crashing

Upgrading to Apple Aperture 3.4 is causing crashes for some users. Here’s how to fix it.

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Facebook now supports higher-resolution photos

Facebook now supports higher-resolution photos and also offers a “full screen” mode to display them.

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Global Smartphone Penetration at 27% and Rising

Global smartphone penetration is 27% as of November 2011. Continued upside potential for design and development of mobile website and apps.

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Speaker John Boehner’s Poorly Designed “PowerPoint” about the Debt Ceiling Agreement

When Speaker John Boehner announced that a deal was reached to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, he issued what’s being called a “PowerPoint document” to summarize the framework. Setting aside the merits of the content, the presentation design was awful.

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Why I Completely Redesigned My Website

My old website had three major flaws: (1) the content was always old, (2) it had lousy SEO stats; (3) it poorly communicated my business capabilities. I fixed all three by switching from a custom website design to a total blogging platform.

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How To Create a Sliding Timeline Graphic in a PowerPoint Presentation

Sometimes an image is too big for a single PowerPoint slide. Rather than shrink it down or just divide it up, here’s how to spread the image across multiple slides and smoothly animate its appearance. This is a very effective way to present graphic information in a timeline.

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Steve Jobs must not be a runner

It’s well known that Steve Jobs loves music. If he were a runner, he’d no doubt listen to an iPod as he ran around Palo Alto. And if he wore an iPod, he’d certainly use his own company’s Apple-branded earphones. But Steve Jobs must not be a runner. Why do I say that? Because the [...]

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