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This isn’t a tip. It’s a screenshot Kyle just sent me from one of the cooler projects we’ve been involved in so far this year. Kyle and Jordan prepared an entire network of computer images that a client took to China on a laptop drive. Kyle had to help them configure the network sufficiently over the phone so he could get in remotely and finish the office setup.

This is, from front to back, an RDC connection to a windows machine running in VMWare on another mac, which is running on a mac, when is screen shared from another mac, which is connected to via iChat Screen Sharing feature, and is in China.

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I just received my invitation to the Seattle AIGA 2009 Membership Party. The card is printed on thick cardstock and invites you to trim-out the AIGA letters and assemble your own mini Space Needle. Here is a PDF:

AIGA 2009 Membership Invite - PDF

I try to schedule my papercraft tips for the long 3-day weekends. I’m a couple weeks early on this one, but given the timing I didn’t want to wait for the Memorial Day holiday.

Plus this piece was deisgned by one of our clients, Turnstyle. How could we resist?

Need a last minute gift for that special creative pro? How about a new computer? Some assembly (and a good exacto knife) will be required.

For this year’s holiday tip, your friendly left-brain team at CreativeTechs has spent more time than we can justify tracking down templates for a wide variety of cut-out Macintosh computers. Browse through the list of available computers below. Each link will download a PDF template. Print out on card stock for best results.

Enjoy.

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As we head into the shortened Thanksgiving week, we’d like to offer our traditional holiday papercraft project. This delectable roast turkey was found on a Japanese site. We’ve bundled the templates into a single easy-to-download PDF:

Papercraft Turkey PDF

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Not sure where to cast your ballot tomorrow? Google has a special voting site to help:

http://maps.google.com/vote

Enter your home address, and Google shows you the address of your local voting location.

In honor of Halloween, we offer up a fun collection of zombie papercraft templates. Download a PDF template, print, fold, and enjoy.

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Each month, CreativeTechs ships all our Seattle-area support clients a monthly care package, including (among other goodies) the latest issue of Design Tools Monthly.

So if you are a CreativeTechs member client, watch your mailbox for this month’s latest green envelope. Read on for a list of all the headlines in the October 2008 issue.

If you are not yet a CreativeTechs client, visit our main consulting page to learn more about our Seattle Mac Support consulting practice. Or visit Design Tools Monthly to subscribe to Jay Nelson’s excellent resource.

Is the air getting nippy? Are the days getting shorter? Are those rain clouds a little heavier? It must be October in Seattle.

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Last week’s CS4 Social at Luminous Works was a hit. Hours after the Adobe unveiling, a lucky group of Seattle designers and photographers had a chance to see CS4 in person (including some of the new 3D features in Photoshop CS4). Tonight, we’re holding another CS4 preview at the CreativeTechs office in South Lake Union:

Register: Tonight’s CS4 Preview

Source: Trainer and founder Steve Laskevitch’s fun CS4 presentation helps illustrate why Luminous Works has been ranked the #4 Adobe Authorized Training Center Worldwide. Check out the Luminous Works Calendar of upcoming classes.

We’re counting down the hours for tomorrow’s unveiling of Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4). And the flood of blog posts from everyone who has been working with the prerelease copies of CS4 are already starting. We’ll probably miss a bunch of good posts, but we’ll try to keep these links updated as they appear over the next day.

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If you haven’t registered for tomorrow’s Web Broadcast that kicks off Adobe’s Creative Suite 4, you still have time:

Link: Something Brilliant

We’re sworn to secrecy until Adobe lifts the curtain. But tomorrow night in Seattle, we’re throwing a party with our Seattle-area training partner, Luminous Works, to celebrate all the new CS4 goodness.

Source: Tomorrow’s CS4 party is seriously overbooked. If you signed up for the waitlist, we are hosting another CS4 Social on Monday, September 29, a week from today at the CreativeTechs office in South Lake Union.