Gabriola Graphics Blog

Here you'll find posts relating to a bunch of graphic and web stuff, a little hardware or software stuff, and the odd life pro tip.

Welcome! Here you'll find posts relating to a bunch of graphic and web stuff, a little hardware or software stuff, and the odd life pro tip.

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Logitech k400

Logitech k400 Wireless Touch Keyboard

We’ve never owned a television. Well, except for a 12″ tiny colour TV my wife brought into our lives more than a decade ago. All of our media is played through our computers and displayed on a Samsung 27″ LCD (the S27A650D). It’s not a giant...

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Thunderbird Mail and Marking Junk

I’ve been using Thunderbird (Mozilla’s email software) for years now. Because I’m a computer geek and NEED to have everything just right on my computer it bothered me for a long time that even messages Thunderbird would mark as junk and then move to...

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Marcelo Schultz for Nike Designs

Inspiring Designs for Nike by Marcelo Schultz

Came across these and thought they were inspired works. Love the details. Created by Marcelo Schultz (www.marceloschultz.com) for “Nike designs”, a project on @Behance. Click images for larger version (will open in a new window, close to return here).

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Google Icons

700+ Free Categorized Icons from Google

As part of Google’s Material Design Project 750 icons have just been made available for you to use in your projects. They’ve been categorized nicely and come in many flavours: SVG (24px and 48px versions) PNG (1x, 2x, 3x) CSS sprites And even hi-dpi...

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copypastecharacter.com

Copy and Paste Characters from Copypastecharacters.com

A quick shout out to copypastecharacter.com! They provide a quick one-click interface to a bunch of favourite characters people use commonly in Tweets or other online writings. Be sure to click the link near the top of their page for more options (see graphic above)....

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Boomerang for Gmail

Boomerang for Gmail: Send Emails in the Future

I’ve been using Boomerang for Gmail for a year or two now and love it. It’s a FREE add-on to Gmail that allows you to send emails to yourself, or anyone, in the future! The main purpose I use it for is reminding myself of an event in the future. Months...

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Locate32

Locate32 is an awesome 3rd-party search for Windows

Locate32 is the free software program I use to search for files and folders on my computer running Windows 7. I’m only writing about it here because it’s awesome. Locate32 uses it’s own database to make searching lighting fast (yes, that fast) and...

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The Read More Button in WordPress

All of my default WordPress installs lately seem to configure the blog entries and the Read More button such that when the button is clicked the blog entry is loaded and the page “jumps” to the spot in the entry where the “more” button was...

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Adobe InDesign: Non-Printing Layers

Adobe InDesign: Printing Blank Pages?

When printing or exporting to a PDF from Adobe InDesign I sometimes run across pages coming out blank. I don’t mean the odd blank page in the document or one or two blank pages at the end, but rather the whole document is blank, or each page is missing a large...

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embedresponsively's website screen capture

Responsive Video Containers: Embedresponsively.com

Embedresponsively.com offers a simple copy/paste solution for responsive containers. See a video you want to share Copy the address bar Visit their site embedresponsively.com Paste the address Copy the code their site presents to you Here’s a screen capture of...

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