Archived entries for productivity

Illus­tra­tor Key­board Short­cuts for For­eign Languages

One of the very best ways to make work­ing on a com­puter effi­cient is to use key­board short­cuts. You know, Cmd + C to copy and Cmd + V to paste. I am see­ing peo­ple who have used com­put­ers for over fif­teen years still using the mouse to do these com­mands from the menus. Con­tinue reading…

Sim­ple way to con­trol your email – your own way

Blogs and arti­cles about per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity have been very pop­u­lar last few years. They present ways to make life a lit­tle eas­ier by look­ing into every cor­ner of our daily activ­ity, ana­lyz­ing our behav­ior and try to find bet­ter solu­tions for every action.  

I have read quite some of these. My main prob­lem with all this good advise is that I some­times have a feel­ing that the author is tak­ing his own nat­ural behav­ior and tries to make a sys­tem out of it. Then tries to get oth­ers to adapt to their sys­tem. I find a lot of those great ideas just too strict. Too much work to make the sys­tem and too much work to main­tain it. And what I really hate is: There is no way for me to keep that kind of a tidi­ness up on a daily basis. Don’t get me started on Empty Inbox, please.

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Start­ing off with RGB workflow

An old dream of mine is com­ing through these days. That is RGB work­flow for print­ing. In fact it’s more than 10 years, prob­a­bly almost 15 years, since I real­ized that this was the next step in in the printing/prepress pro­ce­dure. It’s been a long wait.

When the com­put­ers took over in graphic design a lot of things that had been done in the print­er­ies came with it. It was all fine to the graphic designer except the color man­age­ment. Ner­vous design­ers try­ing to get their col­ors right are now being saved by the pro­fes­sion­als at the print­er­ies who know how to do this stuff.

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RGB verk­flæði – gamall drau­mur að rætast.

Gamall drau­mur, mjög gamall reyn­dar, er að rætast þessa dagana. Í stað þess að hön­nuðir séu skjál­fandi á bei­n­unum við að bög­glast með að lit­greina myn­dir, oft í tómri óvissu, er þessi hluti vinnslun­nar að færast aftur til prentsmið­janna, þar sem fagfólk sér um hana. Við erum sem sagt að færa okkur úr CMYK verk­flæði yfir í RGB verkflæði.

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16 Pre­press Tips for Graphic Designers

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I recently wrote my first guest-blog, called Pre­press Tips for Graphic Design­ers on David Airey’s blog. If you are a graphic designer you should go over there and have a look. A print­able mini-poster of the arti­cle is avail­able too from a link in the comments.

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Sync Things eas­ily between Macs

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I recently decided to leave my favorite GTD / ToDo appli­ca­tion iGTD because of lack of devel­op­ment. It took me few weeks to choose between the most pop­u­lar replace­ments on the Mac, Omni­Fo­cus and Things. In the end Things won. At least this round.

Maybe I didn’t think it all through because right after my deci­sion I stum­bled upon the Things Wiki that although you can sync to iCal and iPhone, sync­ing between two or more macs is not sup­ported yet.

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The Cir­cle – a sim­ple ToDo Sys­tem to Get more Things Done

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I love to use To Do appli­ca­tions and GTD pro­grams on my mac. At least try them out. Things, iGTD, Omni­Fo­cus and many more. All have their pros and cons. Most peo­ple try a few and then stick to one. Oth­ers use one but keep look­ing for bet­ter solu­tions. And then still some peo­ple can­not be helped — they try every­thing but get noth­ing done. Maybe they are look­ing for the appli­ca­tion which will do the job for them. Con­tinue reading…

AI : Hnappaskipanir

Ein besta leiðin til þess að flýta fyrir sér við tölvu­vinnslu er að tileinka sér flýtiskipanir eða hnap­paborðsskipanir. Ég birti hérna grein um hnap­pask­ipanir í Illus­tra­tor CS2 fyrir tæpu einu og hálfu ári síðan. Það var kominn til að skoða þetta með tilliti til CS3. Ég fjar­lægði gömlu grein­ina og set þessa í staðinn.

Ég bjó mér til nýja flýtiskipanaskrá sem hægt er að skipta yfir í í stað þeir­rar sem fyrir er, Illus­tra­tor Default. Í þetta skipti reyndi ég að vanda aðeins meira til verka og reyni að láta þes­sar aukask­ipanir þur­rka sem minnst út eða breyta því sem fyrir var. En samt var óhjákvæmi­legt að gera það á nokkrum stöðum. Nokkrir hnap­par virka öðru vísi á íslen­skuðu stýrik­erfi og eru jafn­vel óvikir.

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Apple Keynote með OmniOutliner

iWork 08 er nýlega komið út eins og alþjóð veit. Þetta er engin smá uppfærsla frá iWork 06.

Ég er einn af þeim sem hef beðið eftir Num­bers í áraraðir, en sterkur orðró­mur hefur gengið í mörg ár að Apple ætti til grunn að svona töflureikni ein­hvers staðar í kistunni. Ég er búinn að yfir­færa nokkur svona skjöl sem ég er alltaf að nota, úr Excel yfir í Num­bers og verð að segja að mér finnst breytin­gin verulega til bat­naðar. Mér líður miklu betur í augunum. Con­tinue reading…

Umslög

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Fyrr eða síðar þurfa öll fyrirtæki að láta hanna fyrir sig umslög. Umslög eru afar fjöl­breytt flóra, mar­gar mis­mu­nandi stærðir og gerðir. Con­tinue reading…



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