http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/sikuli/demo.shtml

What’s  SIKULI?

Sikuli is a visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots). The first release of Sikuli contains Sikuli Script, a visual scripting API for Jython, and Sikuli IDE, an integrated development environment for writing visual scripts with screenshots easily. Sikuli Script automates anything you see on the screen without internal API’s support. You can programmatically control a web page, a desktop application running on Windows/Linux/Mac OS X, or even an iphone application running in an emulator.

Read the press  Picture-driven computing by MIT News office.

http://creativetechs.com/training/

thanks to Jane K. for the tip on this site!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY8ryiavwgs&feature=autofb

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/28/new-apple-ipad-failure/?test=latestnews

http://www.recourses.com/2010b

While running your firm looks a lot like the reverse peeling of an onion, building layer after layer, at some point you need to quit building on the past and start constructing an entirely new firm. That process of cutting ties with the past is essential…and terrifying. It’s what happens when a child moves out, a bird gets kicked out of a nest, or a student pilot takes off on that first solo flight. It’s probably more likely that you’d associate moments of terror with starting your firm, but it actually requires far more courage to move beyond that initial founding.

I want to discuss four areas where–if you don’t cut ties with the past–you’ll never really thrive.

That First Big Client

You need to lose some clients. I don’t even know what your specific client base looks like, but I can still comfortably predict that you need to lose some clients….

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http://www.spiderpic.com/

from orig. article:

http://m.lifehacker.com/site?t=ZqFzi0T5.68MJBl1SYDkpg&sid=lifehackerip

If you’re in the market for stock photography you’ll definitely want to make a stop at SpiderPic, a stock photography search and price comparison engine that reveals huge disparities between photo fees.

How big of a disparity? If you check out their sample page you’ll see disparities as big as $350 between the lowest price and highest price for an identical stock image. When you search with SpiderPic you’re directed towards the least expensive version of the photo you’re looking for in the size you want, so you’ll never end up paying $400 for a stock photo that’s being sold for $40 or $100 for one three other vendors are selling for $5. SpiderPic searches Fotolia, iStockphoto, Dreamstime, BigStockPhoto, and other large stock photography suppliers.

If you’re looking for free stock photography make sure to check out previously reviewed  EveryStockPhoto and  FreeRangeStock . Have a favorite photo-search tool of your own? Let’s hear about it in the comments.

SpiderPic [via  TechCrunch ]

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http://www.jingproject.com/

http://www.beedocs.com/blog/2010/01/beedocs-rewards-donations-to-haiti.html

http://justcreativedesign.com/2009/11/29/recession-guide-for-designers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JustCreativeDesignBlog+%28Just+Creative+Design+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

http://www.fontshop.com/freefonts/

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1954960,00.html?cnn=yes&hpt=C2

fyi: today only: “Today: Get great software and help Haiti at the same time” – http://www.indierelief.com/

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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/secret-bible-verses-guns-marines-concerned/story?id=9602030

http://osxdaily.com/

Free Photo Collage Software for the Mac

January 9th, 2010 –  Fun,  Mac OS X

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/07/islam-is-google-suggests_n_414593.html

http://new.myfonts.com/search/lowest_price:0/fonts/

http://www.marketingmixblog.com/

Hi Peleg,

How are you? I was forwarded this inquiry of your regarding ‘designers outrageous ideas for marketing your business’ from a friend, Vanessy Lowry.

I believe my firm has have done something that is “outrageous, unusual and creative…so different that it made people talk and pay attention…”

But, it’s not what you would expect and frankly not something I bet you’ll want to publish; It’s not a marketing program or hot air balloon filled with goats and a large Misenheimer Creative, Inc. logo on the side! (of course, i already do an email blast monthly, online ads, networking and the usual).

But this is different. I am coming clean and being myself, as a designer and a human, on my site, a big risk in this day and age!  :-)  And it has a ‘poor-fit client’ purging functionality inside of it too.

I have put the most explosive and politically incorrect link on my site that is possible, but again, not for effect or even for convincing someone of my view, but really just so it would be clear that i am not hiding or bowing to pressure to homogenize, and from what sphere I come from when attacking a visual communications problem for the prospective client. Again, not that the link or i am ‘great’, but i do get so tired of ‘me-too, never-gonna-rock-the-boat’ business safety machinations, and so I went for the ‘outrageous’ route!  :-)

Hold on now, the backstory beauty of it is that it “steers away” clients that are not into what I am, which can be a good thing! And, of course, it empowers those that do have the same ‘worldview’ TOWARD my design services and my site, which means, the prospective clients that I do hear from, from my site, are ones that have self-screened themselves.

If they were offended, they never contact me. OK, actually a few have, but that is fine too, to disagree or discuss, or to tsk tsk me.

If they loved ‘the link’, they often do contact me saying so. In fact, it’s running 10 to 1 that people write, even if they do not use my service, to say they appreciate the candor, stand and yes, even soft-peddle/no hard sale approach…

When you go to my site, you’ll know immediately which link all this is referring to, if i have piqued your interest…!

http://www.misenheimer.com/

Mark Misenheimer

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Graphic Design Solutions That Increase
Marketshare and Mindshare for Our Clients,
Through Strategic Web and Print Communications
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8)Summary: Designers’ outrageous creative ideas for marketing your business

Name: Peleg Top

Category: Business & Finance

Email: haro@pelegtop.com

Title:

Media Outlet: HOW Magazine

Specific Geographic Region: N

Region: usa

Deadline: 09:01am PACIFIC – 11 January

Query:

Are you a graphic designer or an owner of a graphic design firm?

For an

upcoming article in the business section of HOW MAGAZINE, I am looking for

a quote on something you did to get the word out about your business that

is outrageous, unusual and creative.

What did you do that’s so different

that made people talk and pay attention?

Please send a up to 100

words PLUS your name, agency name & URL