Steve’s Stuff

The Technology Evangelist asks “Will Google replace Microsoft Exchange?“.

He makes a good case that the newly announced IMAP support is about the 10th shoe to drop on Google’s steady march on Microsoft Office and, now, Exchange.

CCIM.NET users: Instructions are at http://www.ccim.net/outlook-imap.pdf

If you’re put off by the high price of PhotoShop but want features, features, features, get a copy of the free Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). Version 2.4 has just been released. Some highlights from the release notes:

• The selection tools have been rewritten from scratch to allow resizing of existing selections. Additionally the rectangular selection tool includes a setting for creating rounded corners as this has been identified as a very common task among web designers.
• Selecting individual objects on images is easier now with a new foreground select tool.
  Most notable is the new top-level Color menu that accumulates most tools, plug-ins and scripts that adjust colors in RGB/Grayscale mode and color palettes in Indexed mode.
• Just like the selection tools, the new crop tool has been enhanced since the last release. The resize handles actually resize the crop rectangle instead of providing both resize and move functionality. The tool behaves more naturally and consistently with other GIMP tools.
• While numerous red-eye workflows exist already, GIMP now features a very convenient auto-magic filter to remove red eye from your shots.

Download from here.

If you, as a Designee, login to the Find A Professional search and look at your own profile in Find A Professional (’fess up — you’ve done it), you’ll now see a link on each header bar that will allow you to update that information.

Keeping your data current is important. If you move, change your phone, fax, or email, you need to get that information out to all inquiring eyes as soon as possible.

Find A Professional now sports a “view as PDF” link. Give it a try and let us know how it works for you. We’re treating this as a beta and value any comments you might have.