Design Tools Monthly. (Who, What, When & Where).Design Tools Monthly, which is celebrating ten years of publication by the same editor and publisher, Bolder, Colorado-based Jay J. Nelson. "The Executive Summary of Graphic Design News" is a monthly survey of stories from trade journals, magazines, web sites, and technical documents for graphic design professionals. "For ten years, we've we've Contraction of we have. we've have delivered what we consider to be the most important news about what's good, bad, broken and otherwise essential to running a profitable graphic design business," Nelson says. In its ten years, Design Tools Monthly has evolved along with the technological developments that it covers. It's now offered in a printed format or in digital form as a PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. . Nelson says, "Each month, subscribers also receive a thoughtfully filtered collection 'of software that includes updates, bug fixes A revised program file or patch that corrects a software bug. See bug, patch and hot fix. (programming) bug fix - A change to a program or system intended to permanently cure a bug. , free and shareware Software on the "honor system." The concept is that users try a product, and if they like it, they voluntarily pay a set registration fee or make a donation to the program's creator. There are tens of thousands of shareware programs; some fantastic, some awful. utilities, plug-ins, and fonts. "Important software updates appear every month, so we put the most essential items on our password-protected web page and quarterly CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). ." Nelson says he has subscribers in more than 40 countries. 303-497-9450, fax 303-543-8300. jay@designtools.com, www.design-tools.com |
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