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Rename Your Files with Renamer4Mac.

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Renamer4Mac makes it easy to rename a large number of files. You just drag files or folders into its window, then adjust what you want to change. As you define your intended changes, Renamer4Mac previews in blue what each new file name will look like. When your file names appear the way you want them, you can apply the changes.

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This tool is perfect for designers who find themselves with a folder of files whose names need to be adjusted. For example, adding an identifying name to photos, along with a sequential number. Or changing the names of files for a website to lower case and replacing spaces with underscores.

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Tim Pearson
March 10, 2008
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xScope is an Ideal Tool for Web Designers.

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xScope ($27) is a great utility for Mac-based web and UX (user experience) designers. It provides a number of floating tools for measuring, aligning, and inspecting on-screen graphics.

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You have to play with xScope to get a sense of how helpful it is. It has on-screen rulers, floating guides, and a nicely designed screen overlay that shows the usable space for any screen (including new templates for the iPhone). My favorite feature is a new dimensions tool (shown above), which instantly identifies the pixel dimensions of anything on your screen. Link to the movie below for a better sense of how cool this feature is:

Movie: xScope Dimensions Tool

Download a free trial of xScope and give it a spin.

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Tim Pearson
March 3, 2008
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Leopard Disk Utility Can Now Resize Partitions.

In the past, changing the size of a Macintosh volume has been a significant undertaking, requiring third-party tools or offline reformatting. But, all that changes in Leopard. In the newest version of OS X, you can grow or shrink any HFS+ partition. The resizing is done live, and can even be performed on a mounted […]
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Tim Pearson
March 3, 2008
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Hold Shift to Snap Guides to Rulers.

This week’s creative tip is one of those handy shortcuts you can use all the time. As basic as it is, a lot of us missed this feature along the way. In many Adobe application (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), hold down the Shift key while dragging a guide to snap to the nearest ruler mark. The […]
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Tim Pearson
February 25, 2008
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Add Translation Links to your Web Site or Blog.

Last week my family and I left for a much anticipated vacation in Italy. But rest assured, before we left town, our team queued up a fun collection of tips to run while we’re gone. If everything works properly, those tips should continue to flow uninterrupted each Monday until we return. In the spirit of […]
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Tim Pearson
February 25, 2008
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Design Police Proofing Stickers.

Presidents’ Day (today) is a national holiday in the United States. In honor of the extended weekend, here is a fun project. Design-Police.org has created a great “visual enforcement kit” that includes a wide number of stickers. Download the PDF, print them out, and help bring bad design to justice: Design-Police.org For even more fun, […]
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Tim Pearson
February 18, 2008
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Add an Acrobat Stamp to Your PDF Proofs.

Back in January 2007, we published a tip showing how to use PDF watermarks to add studio-branded “proof” stickers to the PDFs you send clients (Add proofing messages with PDF watermarks). That’s been a popular tip over the last year. This week we’d like to provide an updated tutorial showing how you can do the […]
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Tim Pearson
February 18, 2008
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February 2008 Mini-Workshop Schedule!

TrainingCatalog-Feb08.jpgCreativetechs is taking a different approach to professional training. We’ve organized our materials into dozens of smaller, bite-sized modules. The results are shorter, focused sessions, which let you get the training you need, without setting aside an entire day away from the office.

Download a PDF of our Training Brochure and see what upcoming workshops catch your eye. Then join us Wednesday and Thursday mornings for the fun:

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Missed a good one? All our topics are available for one-on-one training. Email training@creativetechs.com or call 206-682-4315 to schedule a personalized training session.

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Tim Pearson
February 10, 2008
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Convert Quark, InDesign, Publisher, FrameMaker, etc.

Over the years, our team fields lots of questions from clients needing to convert documents from one page layout program to another. For this tip we’ve compiled a number of utilities we’ve used and recommended. Q2ID — QuarkXpress to InDesign ID2Q — InDesign to QuarkXPress PUB2ID — Microsoft Publisher to InDesign PM2Q — PageMaker to […]
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Tim Pearson
February 10, 2008
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Convert FreeHand files into InDesign using PDF2ID.

Last year we published a tip about Adobe dropping development and support for Macromedia FreeHand (Goodbye FreeHand. But is Illustrator Enough?). In that tip, we argued that most die-hard FreeHand users are happier and more productive switching to Adobe InDesign rather than Illustrator. Since then, we’ve been looking for a method to help designers migrate […]
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Tim Pearson
February 9, 2008
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