Make a free plugin called MultiDo. Similar to a History palette (which they sell), the Edit > Undo and Edit > Redo display a menu of (up to) the last 100 actions you did.
Both of these companies make plugins that let you save and reuse Table styles. Teachup’s Table & Cell styles
plugin is now built into InDesign CS3. Woodwing’s
plugin is called Smart Styles and is not just for tables.
Dave Saunders is a big name in InDesign scripting. His website and blog have information on scripting InDesign
as well as scripts he sells. One script he wrote for CS2 will repopulate an InDesign table with new content (while this feature was added to
CS3, this script is a huge time saver for anyone still using CS2).
“CleverFindChangeCloser” is a free InDesign CS2 plug-in from Aextra
Software. It lets you assign a keystroke to close the Find/Change palette. (In CS3, press Esc when
the cursor is in the Find/Change panel to close it.) Click
for more details about the CS2 plug-in.
To install it:
1. Copy the plug-in file into
the Adobe InDesign CS2 > Plug-Ins folder.
2. Relaunch InDesign.
To use it:
1. Go into Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts. 2. Under Product Area choose Edit Menu. 3. Select Close Find/Change Dialog. 4. Under New Shortcut press your desired shortcut.
5. Click OK.
If you ever want to use Photoshop to create a “favicon” (Favorites Icon: That little icon next to
the URL in the address bar) for your website, here’s
a free plugin that lets you save it as the appropriate (.ico) format.
Formerly made by Extensis, Mask Pro is a plugin that makes easy work of creating masks. It can also turn masks
into high resolution clipping paths, so you never have to touch the pen tool!. It is very easy to use and can save lots of work!
Excellent source for Canon lens reviews. Be sure to check out the ISO
12233 Crops. They are a very effective way to compare different lens sharpness (just roll over the image).
This free service from Google lets you track how people use your website. Find what patform and browser they
use, what pages they visit, what they type into a search engine to find your site and LOTs more. Best of all, it’s
free!
Talks about privacy issues on the web, such as how to protect your images by stopping image crawlers (like Google’s
image search)
from indexing your website.
This is the company I use to host this website. They are only $5/month and I’ve had good service with them in the past few years. If you sign up with them be sure to say that
sent you!
Want to know when it’s a good time to buy a mac? This site tells you how long it’s been since the
last update so you know whether you should buy now or wait a little longer.
While the site isn’t the prettiest, if you like tricks and shortcuts, and you have some time to trudge
through people’s comments, you should find some good ones like I have.
(For a more concise guide visit my Mac Central.)
Now that Windows Media Player is no longer being made for the Mac, Microsoft has made a deal with Flip4Mac and
is distributing their plug-in for Quicktime so you can play window media files in the Quicktime player.
A great site to find out what the latest version of a program is. This site makes finding any program (or program
update) fast! They even give you a direct link to download it without having the search around the vendor’s site.
