xBlog: The visual thinking weblog
25th July 2005

Tips for improving your handwriting

“People who inevitably have trouble with handwriting and calligraphy write with their fingers. They ‘draw’ the letters. A finger-writer puts the full weight of his/her hand on the paper, his fingers form the letters, and he picks his hand up repeatedly to move it across the paper as he writes.”

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25th July 2005

Test the speed of your internet connection

“Take the Speakeasy Speed Test and test your connection speed! By measuring the download and upload rate from the following locations you are able to accurately judge your current line throughput or internet connection speed.”

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25th July 2005

When Vector Meets Photo

“Mixing vector and photo is one of the hottest trends in the illustration industry today. We’ve seen this effect used in national ad campaigns from Anheuser-Busch to Hawaiian Tropic. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to create this effect in Illustrator.” (Thanks a.wholelottanothing.org!)

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25th July 2005

Things I’ve Learned From Blogging

“I just realized that in my recent chaos I’d missed this old blogs birthday! It was 3 years ago this month that I launched this blog. At the time I’m not sure if I even knew it was a blog, I just wanted an easier way to publish my infrequent writings. I felt that an easier process would help me want to write more — little did I know how much more!”

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