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Automated form-field styling: Goodbye Times New Roman, hello Acrobat.

By Michael Streubert

Have you ever had to create an Indesign document that incorporated form fields spread across many pages? Has a co-worker discovered you sobbing quietly at your desk while manually updating font styles using acrobat’s “Prepare Forms” tool? Well, if you said “No” or “What the H$%# are you talking about” then read no more.  If you answered “Yes!”, I’m sorry you have to work on forms, but hopefully, this will save you a ton of time.  I recently discovered a simple Javas
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7 Tips That Will Make You a Stronger Presenter

By Texas Creative

Some people live for giving presentations, while most people consider it their worst nightmare. In fact, the fear of public speaking is consistently listed as one of the most common fears people have. Whichever category you fall under, presenting to an audience is bound to occur at some time or another in your career. The challenge of facilitating remarkable presentations can be conquered with these 7 tips. 1. Prepare Always take the time to prepare. You should never wait until the last minute t
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Can’t We All Just Get Along?

By Texas Creative

Accountants have a bad name. We are seen as conservative, rigid, and demanding; and we are often perceived as a barrier to new and innovative ideas. We are usually portrayed in TV shows and movies as unapproachable and stiff, like Angela Martin in “The Office.” These stereotypes can be especially alive in advertising agencies, which are made up of creative brand makers, storytellers, designers, and web developers who are all vested in promoting a product or an idea on the behalf of the clien
Meltdown & Spectre: Intel/AMD/ARM/Apple CPU Vulnerabilities

Meltdown & Spectre: Intel/AMD/ARM/Apple CPU Vulnerabilities

By Art Williams

In recent weeks, the news has broken that most modern CPUs (the brains of our computing devices) have hardware vulnerabilities that allow a malicious program to steal data in the device’s memory. These vulnerabilities, named Meltdown and Spectre, are unique in that they break down the built-in barriers that secure data on the most fundamental component of any computing device, the CPU. Who is impacted? Everyone. The devices impacted by Meltdown and Spectre include desktop computers, laptops, s
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CSS Grid vs. Flexbox

By Texas Creative

In the earlier days of front-end website development, many people relied on the CSS table structure to create layouts. Then, there were floats and other positioning methods, but these left out a lot of functionality and were essentially just hacks. Fortunately for me, I wasn't doing much front-end development in those days and was spared from (most of) the horrors. In recent years, many developers, such as myself, have been utilizing Flexbox to help create more dynamic web page layouts. Flexbox