If you haven’t been informed from your updater application yet, Adobe has made available a new version of Adobe Reader (8.1.1). Personally, being on a Mac, I prefer Preview because it seems a ton faster, but Adobe Reader is great for viewing, saving copies, and even adding security (passwords) to PDF documents. [Lots of] Designers use PDF documents regularly, and Reader is a good way to view these documents, (before delivering them to press for example), without having to run the bulkier Acrobat. (it launches noticeably faster than Acrobat too, from my experience).

The folks over at Freelance Switch in conjunction with GoMedia are having a Calling Card Design Competition and the 2 best designs take home $350 of GoMedia Vector Packs. The deadline is November 17th, and make sure you read the rules carefully. The 2 winners will also be featured on Freelance Switch, so this is also a chance for tons of exposure freelancers! Read more about the details on the competition page at Freelance Switch, and good luck! Mmmmm, gotta love those yummy vectors.

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New grunge-type time folks. Actually, you might even call this a grungy script font. Ohlo de Boi by Billy Argel is not only a decent looking grunge font, but has a lot of extra characters, unlike the majority of (free) grunge fonts.

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Have you ever had the creative juices flowing, your favorite music blaring, and selected your Photoshop brush, only to find that your cursor disappears and you can’t see the brush outline? Photoshoppers everywhere have endured this little annoyance for years. It’s really quite simple to avoid, but until you know why, it can be quite a thorn in your side.

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I got wind of the Inaugural Blog Action Day a little late, but I want to participate because it’s such a great cause. Blog Action Day is a cooperative effort by bloggers around the world to raise awareness on a given topic each year. This year the topic is (The Environment) climate change and global warming. I’m not going to pretend to give you tips on going green. I’m simply trying to raise awareness by posting about Blog Action Day, and the environment is a topic that I have a deep interest in.

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