Posted on January 5, 2010 by Mike Rankin
Hello Cleveland! And Austin! And Detroit, Minneapolis, and Secaucus, NJ! These cities are the first announced stops on the InDesignSecretsLIVE! 2010 tour. Click the image to go to InDesignSecretsLIVE for details. Also on InDesignSecretsLIVE, you’ll find information about the single biggest, coolest, most awesome InDesign event of the year: The InDesign Print and ePublishing Conference. [...]
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Posted on January 4, 2010 by Mike Rankin
Why would anyone want to become an Adobe Certified Expert? Here are the reasons, both personal and professional.
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Posted on November 12, 2009 by Mike Rankin
The InDesign Secrets Guide to the InDesign CS4 ACE Exam by Mike Rankin is published!
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Posted on October 21, 2009 by Mike Rankin
Check out DTP Tools new public beta for Blatner Tools for InDesign.
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Posted on October 6, 2009 by Mike Rankin
I feel better. Thanks to the CVS-brand version of Zyrtec, I can breathe, sleep and surf the Web for the usual graphic goodies. With all the money I’m saving on tissues, I might even buy a new laptop. Kungfugrippe has a hilarious take on SnowLeopard and the cult of Mac. Speaking of SnowLeopard, wikidot has [...]
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Posted on September 30, 2009 by Mike Rankin
The thing about insomnia is… Uh, sorry, spaced out there. The thing about insomnia is, I can never complete a thought after undersleeping for any extended period of time. Reminds me of the time my daughter was born. Little tyke didn’t sleep through till she was 4. That was about 1500 days of lousy sleep, [...]
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Posted on September 25, 2009 by Mike Rankin
Man, I am sick of being sick. Like half of Boston, I’ve been coughing for two weeks straight, day and night. I’ve been more concerned with breathing than blogging. I think I have a touch of the ol’ H1N1. Or perhaps the 0C0M0Y100K Plague. I keep thinking it’s got to go away soon. Though I have [...]
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Posted on August 20, 2009 by Mike Rankin
And we’re back. Sometime Monday the domain mapping that transforms mild-mannered “pubtech.wordpress.com” to it’s super hero identity “publicious.net” expired. Silly me, forgot to pay the bill. For about 48 hours, I was thinking I had offended some very important bots in Internetland. All the incoming links to Publicious disappeared and traffic was down more than 90%. [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2009 by Mike Rankin
3 o’clock – roadblock Hey Mr. Cop, ain’t got no (what you say down there) Ain’t got no birth surfer ticket on me now -Bob Marley, Rebel Music In recent weeks, a growing mob of “birthers” has besieged Publicious World Headquarters, demanding to see my paperwork. They claim certain irregularities in my published documents call [...]
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