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A List Apart®

Walking the Line When You Work from Home

Working from home as a freelance contractor or remote employee can be a great thing, particularly if you live alone. But what if you have a spouse and/or children at home with you while you work? Every work environment offers distractions, but those who work from home with their families face a unique set of issues—and need equally unique ways of dealing with them.

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How Do You Walk the Line Between Work and Home? Share Your Best Practices With ALA

Tell us how you overcome isolation, distractions, and temptation. How you deal with kids and deadlines. How you walk the blurry line between work and home. Share your best practices on working from home so we can present them in an upcoming issue of A List Apart.

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Dexigner® Design Portal

Treepac Essential Designs Award-Winning Sustainable Concept: According to the Environmental Protection Agency paper products are the biggest single component of community waste with 85 million tons generated in 2006 Though much of this is recycled the sheer volume compelled the team at product developme
RKS Wins Two IDEA Awards: The Smart Touch salad spinner has been awarded an IDEA Bronze award 2008 This salad spinner combines eye-catching design and new drive mechanism which ensures that just one press of the Smart Touch lever sets the basket spinning at optimal sp
SOLUTIONS Received Silver at IDEA 08: The winners of the 2008 International Design Excellence Awards IDEA are named the SOLUTIONS Branding Design Companies AG obtained one of the eligible Silver IDEA Awards 08 for their TakeOff children buggy Being one of the worlds most prest

NYTimes® Design

Art Review | 'Pretty Ugly': Art Makes Such Weird Bedfellows: Everyone-into-the-pool gallery group shows like “Pretty Ugly” are a welcome distraction in a steamy New York midsummer.
Art Review: Inspired by Vikings and Volcanoes: Two exhibitions of Icelandic art are on view for another couple of weeks at Scandinavia House and the Luhring Augustine gallery.
Antiques: Old Fabrics and New Designs: Antiktex Ltd., a Manhattan company, is one of a handful of companies with large stocks of old fabrics.

Editor's Blog

Photoshop Killer Tips

Using Presets: Save yourself some time when creating a new document by using one of Photoshop’s preset document sizes. Download here
Editing With Clone Source: Here’s a tip about using the clone source palette options to help edit your photos. Download here
Clone Overlay Source: You can change the blending mode so that you can see the source overlay better when using the clone stamp tool. Download here
Clone Source Palette: The Show Overlay option will help you position the clone stamp tool in Photoshop CS3. Download here
Detailed Erasing: Here’s a tip if you are zoomed way in on your document and want to erase one pixel at a time. Download here

TAXI® Design Daily Feed

Web Site of The Day: 10 ways by Getty Images: Somewhere, somehow you've got to start. Pick one, at least.
The Front Seat Interview: Brian McCarty: In Brian Mccarty’s world, growing up doesn't involve growing obsolete from the things of childhood. In his world, growing up means getting more in touch with the things that mattered when he was a boy.
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BOOKS: Phaidon Design Classics: An extraordinarily absorbing, enticingly packaged and comprehensive collection of design classics that will, ironically, become a design classic itself. - reviewed by Wallpaper Magazine
The Driver Speaks: Plug and Play: Universal Connections, an exhibition by dialog05 in Munich presented a collection of USB art designed to make us think about technology in contemporary times.
The Driver Speaks: Cradle-to-Cradle Era: Sustainable design or C2C (Cradle-to-Cradle Design), what is it?
News: Nokia's First Public UMA Pilot Over WLAN is Underway: Nokia started its very first public Unlicensed Mobile Access pilot over Wireless LAN in the city of Oulu last week.

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Master iTunes Checkboxes for Better Smart Playlists [ITunes]: iTunes users who aren't heavy checkbox users, selecting songs by checking them off is an easy way to make playlists on the fly (by selecting "Match only checked items" in the Smart Playlist dialog)....
How Do You Organize Your Pr0n? [File Management]: Our naughty brother site Fleshbot asks readers how they organize their, uh, adult-only media collection (NSFW) when it grows to over a few gigabytes. (NSFW=Don't click on that link at the office....
Alt+Enter to Open a Typed URL in a New Tab [Firefox Tip]: Macworld points out a handy Firefox tabbing keyboard shortcut: Hit Alt+Enter (Opt+Enter for Mac users) to open a URL you've typed into the address bar in a new tab. This way, instead of hitting...
Gratitude Pays Off When Lay-Offs are Looming [Career]: Career columnist Marci Alboher offers up advice on how to perform a controlled slide out of a lay-off situation and into your next job ASAP, using nothing more complicated than email (or a pen and...
Love and Money [Sponsors]: Thanks to this week's sponsors for funding our trolley rides down to Comic-Con: Amex, Chevy Fuel Solutions, Eve Online, HP TouchSmart, Mighty Leaf Tea, Novint, Puma, Sharp Aquos, Starwood Hotels, and...
Outlook Connector Beta Syncs All Your Microsoft Calendars [Featured Windows Download]: Windows with Outlook only: The latest beta release of Microsoft's Office Outlook Connector utility can synchronize your desktop Outlook calendar with your calendar in Windows Live Hotmail, as well as...