The biggest problem I’ve ever had with PDF files is the fact that I don’t own Adobe Acrobat Pro. So when it comes to making multipage designed documents, I’ve either been stuck doing some creative artboard configuration in Illustrator, or stuck “printing” documents (such as from Photoshop, etc.) to PDF and then using a command line script to merge the files together.
I found this nice MacWorld article that discusses some of the newer (or at least new to me) functionality in Preview for OSX, which details some really nice features, including document merging and annotation, as well as some nice formatting features. Looking forward to using this for making designeriffic podcast/mix PDF booklets, multipage Illustrator-formatted resumes, and whatever else.
I saw several references to the problem I was having with the Triggers preferences in Quicksilver in different blogs. At issue? Well, the Triggers preferences would give me a spinner and never load. All the posts I read discussed how the app is not currently in active development and kind of left it at that so at first I thought maybe I was just out of luck. Today, I finally got around to trying a couple of things. I don’t know what the exact cause was, but for some reason the Triggers.plist file in the Application Support/Quicksilver directory was wonky. I changed its name and restarted Quicksilver and that seemed to fix the problem. I then re-added the same triggers in the prefs pane and was back to work. I *think* it had something to do with conflicting trigger id’s or something in the plist file, though I am not sure. In any case, removing the old plist file fixed the issue.
Until I actually redesign this site and create a way to manage postlets or miniposts or nanoposts… I just thought I would repost this nice little story from the New York Times on blocking SMS spam. As the author points out, the solution is not totally ironclad, but it’s good to know that the mobile carriers at least recognize the issue and are starting to act on it. I feel truly weird saying it, but kudos to ATT and Verizon for getting with the program … and come on, Sprint and Tmobile, get with it!
