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Desktopress
Articles, reviews, manuals, links and references for desktop publishers and web designers.
Site reviews
- The Pixel Pen
a web publishing guide designed to help everyone from the complete beginner to the intermediate HTML writer.
Macintosh reviews
- Appledesign:
Apple is probably the only computer company that deserves a picture book for its design work.
- BBEdit:
The most useful tool is a text editor and on the Macintosh the only one to use is BBEdit.
- Big Brother:
Checking URLs. There must be a more tedious task for a webmaster, it's just that I've never found it.
- Default Folder:
When you have information scattered all over your multi-gigabyte hard disk getting through the folder tree can be time
consuming.
- FileMaker Pro:
Organising information before you pour it out into HTML pages and onto your site can often be the hardest part.
- Graphic Converter:
When it comes to converting images from one format to another Graphic Converter is a star.
- The Great Macintosh Easter Egg Hunt:
I spent hours displaying various Easter Eggs in my operating system and applications.
- The Macintosh Bible:
It has to be the single best source for tips and techniques about the Macintosh
- MacPerl:
MacPerl is just so useful that a copy is almost a must.
- QuicKeys:
I've been a QuicKeys fan for many years.
- Telnet:
If you have telnet access to your server then life is much easier.
- URL Manager Pro:
I collect URLs the way some people collect small change
Online publishing articles
- Introducing ED with PDF
Many companies have tried creating electronic documentation (ED) software. Apple gave us DocViewer, Farallon tried Replica,
Green Mountain Software tried DocMaker.
- Distiller and PDF Writer
Once you get used to the idea of reading on screen - and you will have to if you want to get the best out of on-line
options such as email and the World Wide Web - it begins to make sense to not print everything to paper.
- Acrobat Reader
Acrobat Reader is a multiplatform application for viewing and printing PDF files.
- Web images
The Louvre in Paris contains some of the world's most beautiful paintings. So does the National Art Gallery in Canberra;
the difference between the two is that the Louvre displays a collection on the World Wide Web.
- Piglet the lister
Piglet, one of the characters in "Winnie The Pooh", was forever making lists of things. Poor Piglet probably
wouldn't have coped well with the Web, getting tangled in the tags and wondering where on earth he was.
- Computer-to-Plate...we'll do it again
A warts-and-all report on the first Australian magazine entirely printed direct to plate.
- Paper basics
Paper is manufactured in hundreds of sizes, from huge rolls used by newspapers to small precut pages used by laser printers
and photocopiers.
- Creating perfect thumbnails
Graphic Converter is the ideal application for creating thumbnails from any image format to any other image format
- Power Pop-Up Folders
One of my favourite System 8 features are the way you can make little pop up folders at the bottom of your screen.
- Send in the troops
How to solve your Macintosh problems without calling for technical support
Macintosh news
- Bits
Odds and sods of news and views about the Macintosh
Links
Links to other sites for print or web delivery.
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