This is the first tutorials in our series which is a comprehensive guide to pen tool in Illustrator. It covers everything about pen tool even very basics to most advanced techniques. It is in a downloadable pdf format.
If you use Adobe Illustrator, then it’s almost certain that you use the Pen tool when creating your paths. This comprehensive guide aims to introduce or remind you of features, shortcuts, and methods for working with what is arguably Adobe’s most essential tool.
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If you have to build a house or any buildings you will have to consult an engineer. He will design a floor and elevation plan of your future house. Then the construction starts and after months or years of hard work the construction is finally finished. Now you look at the house and you don’t like the design of the house and its not as you had expected.
What now? You are in big trouble as it will be very expensive to change it and sometimes it is impossible to do so. Then you start thinking: What if I would have been able to see how the house would look like before it was actually constructed? Today I am going to talk about this lifesaving advantage of computer based design technology.
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Five years ago, YouTube was just getting started and MySpace was most popular in the U.S., and Facebook was still limited to college and high school students. Mobile was mostly an after-thought, as we were still more than a year away from the introduction of the iPhone and the idea of an app store. And “widgets” were just starting to emerge as a way to integrate third-party apps on a website.
Fast forward to today and the sites we use and the way we use them have shifted dramatically. Facebook is closing on Google as the Web’s most trafficked site. There are hundreds of thousands of mobile applications that users access across a variety of smart phones, and social media is increasingly being consumed and produced on the go. And “Like” buttons have become the new form of social currency for publishers around the world.
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In 1936, long before the rise of the personal computer, Hormel Foods created SPAM. In 2002, the company will produce it’s six billionth can of the processed food product. But that mark was passed long ago in the world of Internet spam.
Who Cooked This!? (How did it all start?)
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A lot of attention is paid in online marketing circles – including this blog – to the best ways to bring traffic to your company’s site. That’s not a bad thing; whether you are relying on search engine optimization, pay per click ads, social networking strategies, or something altogether different, the fact remains that you can’t have sales without visitors.
But never forget that visitors aren’t enough. In fact, they are only half of the equation.
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Companies are mining the social web to build dossiers on you. Information posted publicly on blogs, Facebook, Twitter, forums and other sites is fair game. It is yet another reminder that people need to be aware of what they are posting on social networking sites and to whom they’re connected.
Jules Polonetsky, director and co-chair of the Future of Privacy Forum, said online users have no clue that a comment they made on a blog is being added to a database for some unknown use.
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At this moment iPhone to us is not a new gadget. It is a revolutionary phone that have changed the way we perform our daily activities. From email, internet to various applications that can even remotely drive a car have been released. Today I am going to talk about some secrets of iPhone which we may no know but can drastically increase our productivity.
1. Tap anywhere in the status bar to quickly scroll to the top of page. This works while reading a webpage, email or SMS.
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Human beings are creatures of habit. We tend to wake up at the same time each morning, go through the same basic routine of tasks every day, and go to bed at the same hour every night. Routines are comforting and familiar.
Oh, and they could destroy your productivity.
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Those of us “in the know” are starting to like the sound of our own voices, but we’re really just preaching to the converted (yes, just like I’m probably doing now). Just because we know about social media doesn’t mean everyone does, or even cares about it. We need to jump out of our fishbowls and smell the air of reality. Get out into the world beyond your tweeps. It will do you good.
Just because it’s there, it doesn’t mean you have to be on it. It’s our own fault that we are overloaded by every new social network or social tool out there, because we keep joining them. We don’t need them all and neither do our clients. A few strategically and thoughtfully selected networks, applications or tools can go much further than dozens of them. You don’t have to be everywhere.
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