As I opened my Adobe InDesign CS3 file from work on my CS2 version at home, it dawned on me that others may not know about this trick. When Adobe InDesign CS3 saves a file, it embeds workspace data  not available in previous versions of InDesign. This can be frustrating if anyone has an earlier version away from the office or a co-worker no using the same version.

The work around: save it as an InDesign Interchange file (.inx). This command can be found at File >> Export as seen in this image.

Note: I am running Adobe InDesign CS2 update 4.05

If you email it to yourself put it in a zip file first. Email servers in my experience will strip the file thinking it is a virus, or corrupt the file in transit.

Another use for InDesign Interchange is, if your file is glitchy and crashing your computer export it and re open it. It should reassemble your file and make it usable again.

Just saw that oil is now $44 per barrel, which will really help everyone at the pumps in this time of need. But why are food prices still at a record high? 

I do recall last year when Gas was $4 a gallon, food companies started shrinking packages and increasing prices in order to stay in business. Well guess what, gas is now at an average of $1.75 and food is still ridiculous.  Food companies should raise and lower prices based on the state of the economy. Stores like Walmart are up 5% in sales due to the fact people cannot afford name brands anymore.

I found these really great chips last night in a “snack size” I picked up the bag and it was very light. I squeezed the bag a little and realized only 1/8 of the tiny bag had chips in it. 7/8’s air! Yes yes, contents may settle after packaging, but I am sure the company had no intention of giving me more than that. So that was frustrating, but it got worse - the large bag was $4 and only half full.

I sputtered about the price and settled with a bag of “store brand” cheese balls. $1, and the bag was filled right to the top with the cheesy ball goodness.

Does the consant increase in food prices make anyone else angry?

Made a guest blog post on the Justin Ellis’ Blog on Portland Press Herald today. He is off in Las Vegas, and had several guest bloggers write content for his blog. It was nice of him to ask me to write a couple. Here is the first one:

I use to log in, post my status and accept friend requests on four different social networking sites one at a time. I can honestly say, I lost three to four hours a day checking to see if I had new friends on Facebook or what others were doing on Twitter. Once you master these free tools, social networking becomes painless and productive.

Read the full post.

This is a great thing Obama is doing, each week he is updating the nation through YouTube about what is happening in America and his overall plan. I bet Obama gets more view on YouTube then Bush gets on network prime-time television.

Couldn’t resist posting this…