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DESIGN WEEK: How to thrive as a freelance designer

great read from Design Week (linkd below) providing some insight (and hopefully inspiration) for any designers thinking of going freelance in the creative industries.

https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/13-19-november-2017/how-to-thrive-as-a-freelance-designer/

if you're a freelance designer, or perhaps thinking of going freelance, then IT advice, setup, and support can be a bewildering and costly experience. however it doesn't need to be that way. contact 1-2-1 Mac Support for affordable support and consultancy.

IT4nextgen: Best Budget Monitors for Photo Editing and Photographers [2018-List]

Professional photographers or designers must have expertise in photo editing and video reproduction tasks. To perform such high-end graphics tasks, they have to rely on monitors that can help them to edit high quality images or videos to retain the high color accuracy. Such monitors must have a uniform display and wide viewing angles and some other advanced technical features that are explained in this article. Picking the best monitor for photo-editing jobs can be tricky since some specifications can be misleading to confuse the designers or photographers. So, here is a brief discussion about basic features needed in a photo-editing monitor. You will be able to make an informed decision from our hand-picked monitors ideal for Photoshop CS, CorelDraw, Picturescape, Illustrator or similar image editing applications

Many times when supporting clients Mac computers I often see the commercial software MacKeeper installed. The software provides a number of maintenance tasks on your Mac but many of these tasks can be performed using the Free utility software Onyx.

To quote from the Titanium Onyx website... “OnyX is a multifunction utility that you can use to verify the startup disk and the structure of its system files, to run miscellaneous maintenance and cleaning tasks, to configure parameters in the Finder, Dock, Safari, and some of Apple's applications, to delete caches, to remove certain problematic folders and files, to rebuild various databases and indexes, and more.”

When using Onyx you can be granular in choosing to run specific maintenance tasks, or alternatively you can use “Automation” to run many maintenance tasks in a single run. Most tasks require that you reboot your Mac and I strongly advice quitting any open applications when running Onyx.

Developer: Titanium Software

Website: https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html

Ho, ho, ho! Feeling festive yet? Okay maybe not.

For those of you that are I have collated a nice selection of Christmas images for you that I found on Pinterest and you can use to decorate your iPhone’s Home or Lock screen.