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Apple: The Remix Tour

Apple is offering a free lecture series geared to educators and students that covers Final Cut Studio 2, Aperture and Logic Studio.

Attend a free seminar to learn how creative professionals master the digital media mix.

From print and broadcast to web pages and podcasting, today’s college grads need to be fluent in every type of media imaginable. The Remix Tour brings creative-industry veterans to campus to discuss the ins and outs of integrated marketing in this fractured media landscape. They’ll share tricks of the trade, and introduce you to the industry-standard tools that will help your students create compelling content– no matter what the medium.

Southern California locations at UC Irvine (11/27) and both USC and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena (11/30).

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Tags: Final Cut Studio 2, Aperture, Logic Studio

Free Leads for Web Developers

As a web developer, you know that one of the most difficult parts of growing your business is finding new clients to work for. You have the skills to do the work, and the salesmanship to close the deal, but finding people who need the work done consumes too much of your time. That’s where Free Quotes World (FQW) comes in.

If you’re interested in growing your business, but are tired of the time it takes to find new clients, you should try out FQW.

Competitors

The nature of other leads services such as guru.com, domystuff.com, elance.com, getafreelancer.com or rentacoder.com, seems to heavily favor outsourced work. FQW is different because it targets North American companies looking to build a North American client base.

Try Out Free Quotes World Today - FREE!

Update 10/30/07: FQW out of business? The handwriting was on the wall when my contact at FQW left them not very long after I first posted here. Today the FQW site was completely gone, showing only an ugly mysql_connect database error page. The lesson here is that startups with good intentions can quickly “go south” for a variety of reasons. Buyer beware.

Outsourcing sites open for business include elance.com, getafreelancer.com, rentacoder.com and gofreelance.com.

Tags: web developer, outsourced work., Outsourcing

Accessibility Color Wheel - Color Blindness

The accessibility color wheel is an online tool used to chose a color pair with good contrast and visibility. It simulates the vision of color blind people. Web designers who need good colors for text and background of their accessible sites will find the accessibility color wheel useful.

Tags: color blind people, accessible sites

The Motive Web Design Glossary - Great Detail!

New Zealand web firm provides enough detail to be truly useful, with proper explanations that really describe the meaning.
The Motive Web Design Glossary

above-the-fold

The portion of a webpage visible in the browser window when the page first loads is decribed as being ‘above-the-fold’. The phrase is a reference to the area of a newspaper visible when folded for display in a news stand, typically containing the masthead and lead story.

A more appropriate (medium-appropriate) equivalent being “before-the-scroll”.

The concept of a fold was seen as key in the early days of the web, based on the belief that only content placed in this area of the page—usually the first 300 vertical pixels—could be guaranteed “eyeballs”. Over time, users have become more accustomed to scrolling, however the first fold continues to be highly sought-after by advertisers.

Domains for FREE!

Get your own domain. Use a good registrar like 1&1 which offers .com domains for only $5.99 a year – basically that’s only 50 cents a month! And that price includes domain privacy, so that no one can see who owns the domain.

Plus they have a deal where you can get 5 FREE .info domains – just be sure to register using their “Instant Domain” package. (You don’t even have to buy a .com domain to take advantage of the .info deal.)

dot-mobi Mobile Top Level Domain

Mobile Top Level Domain (mTLD) or dot-mobi, will become the suffix for Web pages that are formatted for cellphones and other wireless devices. A dot-mobi domain name costs $140 a year for trademark names and $45 a year for generic names, compared with about $10 a year for .com or .net domain names. The higher prices are meant to discourage cyber squatters from taking advantage of a new domain name. Registration will be open to generic names in September 2006.

Google and MSN are looking at advertising on cellphones, which is expected to be more effective than online advertising because the cellphone is perceived as a more personal device. Also worth noting is that in developing countries more people have cellphones than PCs. Time to brush up on web design for mobile devices.

Wolf Sounds

A selection of wolf sound effects from sounddogs.

Cool montage of generic high fidelity sound effects or dog pack science fiction (will launch your default media player) from sounddogs. They offer AIFF (Mac), WAV (PC), MP3 (compressed), WMA (Windows Media), AU (Sun) file formats.