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The Little Guy with the Scarf

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

linerider
Linerider beta2 is here! If you have never played Linerider you need to. It’s not really a game but more like a sweet toy. Get creative!
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Hands On Interface

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

We here at Sol love the super-nerdy, new and fresh spoils of technology. These two guys up’ed the ante and did something rather amazing with the human x computer interaction. It sure beats slouching behind a desk all day. Credit goes out to 7dv for the sighting.

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Organizational Skills

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

If you’re a graphic designer, you must have thousands of fonts on your computer. You probably don’t know what half of them look like, the other half you probably never use.

I have tried other font managers such as Extensis Suitcase and the built-in Mac Font Book. Both were met with limited success. Suitcase crashed often and hogged up all my resources, and Mac’s Font Book did a good job, but just wasn’t powerful enough.

Then I stumbled upon Linotype’s FontExplorer X.
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Nerdy: HowTo: Repeating Panel Backgrounds

Friday, February 16th, 2007

We recently finished building the harmony-blog.com website. Our buddy Peter brainstormed with the owners of the blog and came up with a great idea to make the blog look like real postcards. When we got the finished design it looked amazing. Problem was, it had a few things here and there that are “impossible” for the web.

But with our turbo nerdy know-how, nothing is impossible at Sol Design. (more…)

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What up world!

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Sol Design blog is up and running…get your blogroll on!

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