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Eve Lee is an editor on the Newsletters Team at TechRepublic. She has been in IT since 1996 as well as in media since 1989. Check out her intermittent posts on the Geekend blog.

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Enterprise Software

Adobe-FedEx Kinko’s: Convenience and collaboration, or collusion and security breach?

Back in June, Adobe added a new print feature to the latest version of its popular Acrobat and Reader applications, version 8.1. Instead of printing right to your own home or business printer, users can click a button on the toolbar and send documents right to their friendly neighborhood FedEx Kinko's. Is this convenient, or unfair competition or even a chance for a security breach?

Tech & Work

What does your musical DNA sound like?

Because of his songwriting credits, Pete Townshend — with an estimated net worth of £10 million (US $20 million) — has always been the biggest Who earner. Now he’s co-created a Web-based software program that allows the rest of us mere mortals to compose our own classics: Method. Long story short, the software — ...

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Dinner on the ISS

Fancy a moonlit dinner, perhaps with a show of tomorrow’s lunar eclipse, 200 or so miles above the earth? If you’re aboard the International Space Station, you can have this and more on your meal break. Shrimp cocktail, jambalaya and chocolate cake are among the various entrees today’s astronauts can enjoy–with a bit of reconstitution ...

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Noodles in space

A moment of silence, please, for Momofuku Ando, the creator of instant ramen noodles, who died this past week of heart failure at age 96. Love or hate them, you couldn’t get food preparation any simpler–or cheaper. Drop the, um, brick of dried noodles into hot water, add a bit of the allegedly chicken/beef/shrimp-flavored sodium ...

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Trivia under the influence

As a Chicago native, I like to keep tabs on what’s going on back home. Each morning in my mailbox I receive the latest Sun-Times news stories, including this morning’s alarming headlline: Woman hospitalized after Trivial Pursuit game WHAT?! According to the article, the 21-year-old woman’s admission was not a result of game-associated violence or ...

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Practical illustration for the computer-inclined: Part 7 – Thinking cinematically

In Part 6–Sequence, again you learned how to create a comic strip. The panels may be pretty basic on the surface, so let’s shake things up a bit by turning the perspective around. I’m not talking so much about crane views as close-ups and tension-building through action. If you watch your favorite movie, you’ll see ...

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Practical illustration for the computer-inclined: Part 6 – Sequence, again

If you’ve knocked out the sequential art or comic strip from Part 5–Sequence, you’re halfway there! The first thing you’ll want to do is erase most of those pencil lines you created way back when–not using that kneaded eraser, but with the eraser tool. Open your document in Photoshop if you haven’t already and, if ...

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Practical illustration for the computer-inclined: Part 5 – Sequence

Now that you’ve created your first full-frame illustration in Part 4–Coloring, it’s time to think about telling a story using your new skills. Think about what story you’re going to tell. According to John Lee of Suburban Tribe fame (and provider of all these illustrations), “Whatever you decide your comic is to be about, make ...

Printers

Practical illustration for the computer-inclined: Part 4 – Coloring

Back when you left your masterpiece in Part 3–Inking, you had a bold, contrast-filled black-and-white illustration. Here we’ll take it just a step further, using your computer to add a bit of color and texture. (See–there’s a reason I called this “Practical illustration for the computer-inclined”!) There are many image-manipulation software packages out there, but ...

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Eve’s shoebox 1

Adobe-FedEx Kinko’s: Convenience and collaboration, or collusion and security breach?

What does your musical DNA sound like?

Dinner on the ISS

Noodles in space

Trivia under the influence

Practical illustration for the computer-inclined: Part 7 – Thinking cinematically

Practical illustration for the computer-inclined: Part 6 – Sequence, again

Practical illustration for the computer-inclined: Part 5 – Sequence

Practical illustration for the computer-inclined: Part 4 – Coloring

Media disposal policy

IT email templates: Upcoming software release

Mobile app development policy

New client audit checklist