Designer. period. exclamation point! I used to call myself an interior designer, an environmental designer, so many labels that just never seemed to fit. Everything seemed so limiting. I just love good design be it interiors, furniture, products or graphics. Good design is more than just physical items, its also systems, information management and how people interact. Design is exciting because life itself is design driven. Design generates value. In this world where the future is only a day away, it is designers that are leading the way forward. Perhaps Sir Ernest Hall said it best, "Design is about demonstrating how beautiful something can be. It has a very profound capacity. Design is a way of changing life and influencing the future."
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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Sun is in Capricorn - My personality profile

Surprisingly accurate. Although I completely disagree with the negative aspects. Capricorns are perfect, we don't have flaws! LOL See your profile at www.astrolis.com.

Kevin's Sun is in Capricorn
Vitality
You are basically down to earth and practical. You generally possess a great deal of patience and quiet ambition. Once you have decided on a course of action you can work hard for many years, enduring many setbacks, to achieve what you have set out to do. This will often be an achievement that meets with conventional standards of approval, but even if your life-style and goals are not so conventional you'll still need to see some sort of material or tangible result for your efforts.

There's also a tendency to take life too seriously, and you may have little patience with those who take a more laid back approach to life and love. Remember to loosen up a bit every now and then, so that you can enjoy life here and now.
Kevin's Moon is in Libra
Habits
You have a need for harmony and honesty in your emotional life. You also need intellectual nourishment in order to feel happy and secure. You're naturally diplomatic and fair in your dealings with others, with an easygoing nature and an innate ability to see the many sides to any issue.

On the negative side, however, this same fairness and balance of viewpoint can become indecisiveness and a tendency to avoid direct action when it's necessary. You would probably do well to work in a partnership where decision-making can be shared, as decisiveness may not be your strong point.
Kevin's Rising Sign is Aquarius
Self-identity
Being restless, original and rebellious, you need to be seen as an individual with the freedom to make your own choices and your own way in life. You don't like being taken for granted and at times will deliberately shock others with your unpredictable conduct.
Kevin's Mercury is in Sagittarius
Mentality
You prefer to think in broad philosophical terms rather than get bogged down in petty details. Although this is generally not a bad thing you may tend to overlook the fact that some details are important. You will try to live your life by what you believe and what you think is the best way to be, regardless of what other people may think, and you can be rather tactless in what you say.

Your mind is restless and open to the future, refusing to be tied down by the past or present. Your refusal to be pinned down or express a definite opinion on some issues may frustrate other people. It's not that you don't have opinions; it's just that tomorrow it may suit you to change them - so it's best to keep your options open.
Kevin's Venus is in Scorpio
Capacity for love
You approach relationships with deep emotional intensity. Sometimes these intense feelings may be difficult for even you to understand or accept. You may handle this by giving the impression of being unemotional, but you're not as hard as you like people to think.

You may find yourself involved in relationships that have a powerful and transforming effect on your life. You'll be possessive, but, like most of your deeper feelings, that will probably be safely hidden beneath the surface. To expose how you really feel would only make you feel vulnerable.
Kevin's Mars is in Aquarius
Driving force
You possess a tremendous amount of determination to achieve your goals. There's a great need for personal freedom, which can occasionally lead to unpredictable conduct.

You're prepared to defend your thoughts and opinions with great force and regard criticism of your opinions as a personal attack. This will probably lead to conflict until you either stop taking yourself so seriously or learn to respect the opinions of others.


Saturday, February 13, 2010

FREE Photo, Illustration and Drafting Software

If you need general photo editing tools try using Google Picasa 3.6

Free License. Free Download. Links to your online Picasa Account.
Picasa is free to download, and Picasa Web Albums provides 1 gigabyte of free storage -- that's enough space for 4,000 wallpaper-size photos. Edit to perfection. Improve almost any picture with Picasa's one-click fixes for common problems like red-eye, color, and lighting. Or, use tuning and effects to make your best photos look even better.Beautiful web albums. Show your photos at their best. View full-screen slideshows, see your pictures arranged on a global map, enjoy video playback, and more.Sharing made simple. Publish your favorite photos online with one click. Create stunning online photo albums to share with friends and family, or public albums for the world to see. Get notified when your "Favorites" post new photos.





FREE Anti-virus, Malware and Spyware Software

Anti-virus, Malware, Spyware Software
If you need McAfee, Norton or anything like it try using Microsoft Security Essentials
Free License. Free Download.
Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple. Microsoft Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long computer wait times.




FREE Office Productivity Software

If you need Microsoft Office Suite/Microsoft Word try using Google Docs
If you need Microsoft Excel try using Google Spreadsheets
If you need Microsoft PowerPoint try using Google Presentations
Free License. No download necessary. Use Online. Anywhere. Anytime.
You can also install Google Gears on your computer which syncs your files for use Offline.
Create basic documents from scratch or start from a template. You can easily do all the basics, including making bulleted lists, sorting by columns, adding tables, images, comments, formulas, changing fonts and more. Upload your existing files. Google Docs accepts most popular file formats, including DOC, XLS, ODT, ODS, RTF, CSV, PPT, etc. So go ahead and upload your existing files. Familiar desktop feel makes editing a breeze. Just click the toolbar buttons to bold, underline, indent, change font or number format, change cell background color and so on. The best part of Google Docs is sharing and collaboration. Multiple people can share and edit the same document...at the same time! Great for projects. You can give your co-worker full 'edit' rights to a document and share it with a client and only allow them 'viewing' rights. You can't do that with Office unless everyone has an expensive license. Plus it's integrated with all the Google products like Blogger, Picasa Photos, Sites, Groups and Calendar.



Friday, February 12, 2010

FREE Productivity Software

FREE SOFTWARE 

Here's a list of programs that are free/open source. I have all the microsoft products on my computer and I have to say keeping up with licensing and the latest version is a pain in the ass and needless to say very expensive over time. My switch to these programs has been gradual but I have to say I am VERY happy with them and today I am Microsoft free. (Except for Windows) Plus they all are fully compatible with the paid versions so you can easily share, import and export files. NOT a problem. I don't even miss them. I'm tempted to erase everything Microsoft but I'm just not there yet...maybe next week. LOL 

Keep in mind everyone is targeting microsoft and they are doing it by offering competitive alternatives for FREE hoping you will pay for other services they offer. So take advantage. And all are compatible with MS Windows and Mac OS X computers. 

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