Ernesto on June 22nd, 2009

Creative Nerds has a great list of free programs for image editing, drawing, vector art, 3D modeling and animation.   With all the drawing the kids and I have been doing lately, these programs fuel my desire for a graphics tablet.  I’ve come to hate doing pencil sketches and then scanning…. so much lost in [...]

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Ernesto on March 4th, 2009

In my visual design projects (no chortling from my artist friends and colleagues, please), a wide range of stock photos certainly speeds things along.  Sitepoint just twittered a link to a list of 30+ free stock photo sites they’ve posted. Sweet.  Also of note are the two free stock photo search engines listed:  http://www.everystockphoto.com and http://www.openstockphotography.org. Note [...]

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Ernesto on February 18th, 2009

ShareThis is a nice tool for publishers, bloggers, etc. to enable readers to share links to their content, not only by emailing it, but also by sending it to a huge variety of social networks or via SMS to a cell phone. Good reporting tools for publishers, too. We use it on The Telegraph and [...]

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Ernesto on January 26th, 2009

I love free Web tools.  Even when I have the paid versions, it’s nice to have a backup.  For example, while I work in Dreamweaver for most development projects, I find Filezilla’s free ftp client much more stable for getting my files to a remote server when my Web connection gets iffy.  And I know [...]

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