Entries from May 2009

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Product Review – CS4 Down & Dirty Book

Written by Jeremy Verinsky Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks by Scott Kelby   The latest book from Scott Kelby, Photoshop author extraordinaire, goes back to his very first Photoshop book, Down & Dirty Tricks.  The book is completely new for Photoshop CS4 and covers many of the latest graphic design tricks of the trade [...]

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Shout Out – Angela Woo

There is a particular store that I do my absolute best to stay out of. Not because it’s a bad store, but because I would be beyond broke in seconds if I allowed myself to walk through the front doors. This store is the scrapbooking store. A lot of people, though, don’t understand why I [...]

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Hot Site – Geek Girl Camp

This week’s Hot Site is more of a Hot Idea. At least, it’s one I can really get behind. Geek Girl Camp is an organization that is driven toward the idea of making women more comfortable with technology. Now I know that the fellow female geeks I run with aren’t going to let a few [...]

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Who are you again?

I have a friend who is painfully shy and will do anything to avoid talking about himself. It just makes him highly uncomfortable. If you check out any of his websites, you will see minimal background information, and zero “About” pages. For some, this may be ok. However, he is trying to make it in [...]

Monday, May 25th, 2009

No Content Today

In honor of Mimorial Day – Design by Firgs is observing a moment of silence for all of our loved ones lost in the past year. May the Good Light shine upon them.

Monday, May 25th, 2009

We have a new winner!

Congratulations go out to Jeremy! He is now the proud owner of Preset Viewer 2.1! Jeremy, keep an eye on your email, I’ll be sending you the code soon! Thanks to all that entered and thanks to Betsy and the Tumasoft crew for allowing us to have a little fun.

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Product Review – Preset Viewer 2.1

How would you like to go from viewing your brushes like this: To viewing your brushes at full screen in a filmstrip like this: Or from viewing your layer styles like this: To viewing a full screen version of this: Well, thanks to the wonderful people at Tumasoft who developed Preset Viewer 2.1 – we [...]

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Shout Out – Curtis McHale

That crazy guy you see purposely falling over the waterfall is my Twitter buddy Curtis McHale. Currently he is mending from a dislocated shoulder from one of his waterfall adventures. However, having his arm literally ripped out doesn’t stop him. In fact, he can’t wait to get back out on the rapids again. This got [...]

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Hot Site – Life Hacker

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was some sort of cheat sheet that came with life? A friend of mine turned me on to LifeHacker.com last week. When I first looked at it, I closed it out almost immediately due to the overly large car add at the top, the poor navigation, and the generally [...]

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Battling Monsters with F Words

My three year old nephew dreamed that a monster was chasing him and going to eat his finger. It took my brother hours to sooth him enough so that he was no longer afraid to go back to sleep. When you are a kid, monsters can be a pretty big deal. But as you grow [...]