Creative firms and ad agencies need to take FLSA seriously. With the Fair Labor Standards Act’s rule update taking effect this December 1, 2016, creative firms and ad agencies will be facing a tough challenge. Young, ambitious creatives making less than $47,476 per year (or $913 per week) will be subject to overtime pay…
Author: Edgar Santana
November 5, 2016
Edgar Santana
Manufacturers and marketers should slow down their USB and Thunderbolt data speed claims Everyone has been mesmerized by the new generations of USB and Thunderbolt external drives promising “extreme” speeds. Claims of “up to” 5 Gbps, 10 Gbps, 20 Gbps and even 40 Gbps (really?). What manufacturers don’t tell you is that the likelihood…
October 30, 2016
Edgar Santana
Enlarging images in Photoshop There are times when graphic designers are asked to do extreme image enlargements. I recently had a client who requested that a letter-sized image be used on a 102-in x 52-in banner. At first this, I thought this was folly, but then I remembered a technique I learned from a colleague….
One of the frustrating things about deploying Office for Mac 2016 are those first-run dialogs that pop up the first time one opens EACH of the five Office apps! Whether one opens Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook or OneNote, there is a series of pop ups that one must navigate through to enable the software. Worst yet,…
Just learned last week that macOS Sierra will no longer support mobile accounts and Apple Filing Protocol (AFP); both will be “deprecated” in the release of macOS 10.12. While I was aware that AFP was on the endangered list and had already started to switch all computers in my labs to SMB, the potential loss…