This tip should work for some of us who find the Dashboard too slow on older Macs. Applicable to Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
Open Terminal
Then type in…
> defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
> killall Dock
Insert applause here… 
A person named Yogesh Darge, based in Mumbai, India, has just plagiarized the logo I created for the Baguio Centennial 2009. The final version of the logo can be seen above.
Here is his Flickr page and the website of his “professional” Design-Studio.
Ay naku these plagiarists!
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UPDATE: 16 January 2008
I sent one warning FlickrMail and a Cease and Desist Order via eMail.
The plagiarist has so far removed the butterfly logo from most of the branding on his website, although the favicon is still the same copied logo based on this one.
The photos/graphics on his Flickr page are also now hidden (not deleted)… but his avatar is still the same plagiarized logo.
Even spelled “believe” wrong… 
Whoever you are, if you want to make it big in the design industry you’ll have to be incredibly ORIGINAL and IMAGINATIVE. You can probably use somebody else’s work as INSPIRATION but never as a stencil for your own work.
Bad karma, bad karma, bad karma to you.
After a couple of delays the Philippine National Police - Criminal Investigation & Detection Group’s magazine is finally out! “The Quest” is published as part of the 55th Anniversary Celebrations of the PNP-CIDG.
This was a rather interesting project to work on as it is the first time I’ve made any publication that really didn’t have ‘real’ photos. Thank goodness for the Stck.Xchng! The challenge was how to create enough space for ‘artistic’ embellishments in the mostly text-heavy articles. Time constraints and other projects that coincided with it’s creation also kinda dampened my brain. Consequently, I’m not entirely happy with it design-wise as it normally takes me 3 to 4 revisions before I feel any sense of contentment - that point in the design process where you can no longer put anything in OR take anything out. In this case, I only had one… and on some pages, none at all.
Maryanne Moll, the project’s Editor and Manager, assures me everything is great and they (CIDG) are quite pleased with it.
I am really not sure.
Design skew is towards white, grunge font for that ‘urban’ look, and those bright yellow “Police Line” tapes as accent. Whole publication was made on three separate Macs running OS 9 to Leopard, InDesign CS & CS3, and a PC in the office for downloading a cascade of eMails.
Let’s face it. Long ring tones, no matter how cool, are annoying.
This brings us to Kim Possible. She carries a “Kimmunicator” which is a video phone, pager, computer, analyzer, do anything kind of gizmo.
But the best part is, the Kimmunicator has a very cool, very short ringtone. Four quick notes and it’s done. Most people don’t even notice it. Though if you are in a crowd you may see some some kids looking around wondering where Kim is.
I couldn’t find an official version anywhere, so I used an audio capture utility and nabbed those four notes from one of the episodes.
Anyway, I thought I’d share. So here it is… MP3 file, 6KB… have fun!
Warner Brothers announced today that they would be moving their titles from HD-DVD to the Blu-Ray format. Many have suggested that this marks the end of the next generation DVD battle, though two major studios continue to have exclusive HD-DVD distribution deals in place.
Warner Brother’s defection, however, places the majority of movie releases on Blu-Ray:
Apple has been a member of the Blu-ray consortium’s board of directors since 2005, but has not publicly announced their Blu-ray plans. Some expect Apple to officially launch Blu-ray support at Macworld San Francisco.
