How to manage multiple email accounts using Gmail

Long ago, I realized that I'd be happy if Gmail is the only email application I ever use for the rest of my life. I promise you, nothing touches it. So imagine my delight when I discovered I could manage all of my email accounts with one instance of Gmail.

Five Second Project: CMYK

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What do you do if you have a little extra creative energy, you want to create a cool original piece and maybe try out a new technique or two? Well, if you're an animator like me, you might enter one of Nick Campbell's Five Second Project competitions.

DAUG meeting: Website Headers and Navigation Techniques

Join the DAUG on August 4 for "part two" of Geoff Stump's series of lessons on the basics of CSS/HTML web development. This month, Geoff, an interactive designer at Real Art Design Group, narrows his focus a bit and talks specifically about creating headers and navigation for websites. Even more specifically, he'll show how you can use the "sliding doors" technique to create graphic buttons that not only look great, but load quickly too.

Review: The Wild Things by Dave Eggers

As part of my ongoing Dave Eggers kick, I picked up The Wild Things. The book had a lot going for it before I even ordered it: the novel is based on the screenplay for the Spike Jonze movie (also co-written by Eggers), I already dig Eggers' writing, and the damn thing is covered in fur!

Mead Builder: Research Paper Edition overview

Meadwestvaco, likely the makers of every school notebook onto which you lovingly rendered the Metallica logo, has made a couple of surprising moves into the educational software market lately. The newest of these is Mead Builder: Research Paper Edition, an application designed to help students write better research papers. To show teachers, students, and parents the benefits of this new product, I was tasked with directing a short video to help explain the idea.

Flash Builder 4 & Flex 4 Launch Event

Join the Dayton Adobe User Group and the WPCFUG tomorrow night, Wednesday April 21 to celebrate and learn more about the launch of Adobe Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4.

Review: Dropbox

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If you're anything like me, you might have a computer at work, another computer at home, and maybe a mini-computer (iPhone) rattling around in your pocket. They all have different hard drives, and it can be a hassle to transfer files from one computer to another. Your options are basically a flash drive, an external hard drive, burning a disc (yuck!), or some kind of FTP transfer to a server. Dropbox falls into that last category, but it makes things a lot more simple.