Author: Forrest Corbett

Helvetica: A movie for anyone who uses type

Posted on by Forrest Corbett — Posted in Design + Photography

Helvetica: “A documentary about typography, graphic design, and global visual culture.”

I’ve only been working as a designer for a little over a decade. Typography is a huge part of design and one of my greatest struggles has been attempting to convey they importance of typography to clients and fellow designers. The conflict I’ve faced has sometimes left me with a bitter taste.

The comments, expressions, analogies… from the designers interviewed in the documentary echoed many of my thoughts and beliefs. Although occasionally conflicting, the viewpoints expressed created clarity in my consciousness of visual communication.

Every designer should see it. Every person who thinks design is important should see it. Every person who thinks design is unimportant should see it.

Find what’s taking up space on your Mac hard drive – Disk Inventory X

Posted on by Forrest Corbett — Posted in Techknow

I’ve got several more polished posts that I’m finishing up on. But not all my entries have to be perfect and completely unique, right?

So here’s one for Mac users who want to figure out what’s taking up space on their hard drive. Recently I installed a couple more gigs of RAM in my MacBook Pro, and I notice my free HD space got even smaller. Unbeknownst to me, a couple years ago Apple introduced a new feature for portables called “Safe Sleep“… but I didn’t know that until I scoured my HD and found a file named “sleepimage” that was taking up 4GB of space.

There are several apps out there to help you locate files based on size. Continue reading →

Windows Vista SP1 Now Recognizes 4GB of RAM on My MacBook Pro

Posted on by Forrest Corbett — Posted in Techknow

Windows isn’t needed for much on my 2.33GHz MacBook Pro, so moving to Vista doesn’t cause too many issues. XP 32bit could only see ~3GB of RAM on my MBP.

I had thought Vista would support 4GB with ease, but I was wrong. After installing Vista Business I could not get it to recognize more than 2.98GB of RAM. Microsoft states ((http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/64bit.mspx)) All editions of Windows Vista 64-bit provide increased memory support beyond the standard 4 gigabytes (GB) available with 32-bit editions.

However, that was not the case until I installed Vista’s Service Pack 1 today.

Update
It has been pointed out to me that all SP1 does is *show* that 4GB is installed. Looking at the Task Manager, it still shows a total of only 3055MB of physical memory.

iTunes Movie Rentals – Take 1

Posted on by Forrest Corbett — Posted in Life, Techknow

Last week Apple, Inc announced US consumers could now rent movies from the iTunes Store. Although Steve Jobs primarily focused on the AppleTV method of renting movies, one can also rent movies through iTunes and view on a computer or iPod.

There are a load of Cans and Cannots–which Engadget has concisely charted ((iTunes and Apple TV rentals and purchases: what you can (and can’t) do)). For instance, one cannot rent HD movies via iTunes.

Not having an HDTV, that’s not much of an issue to me. Overall my experience was fair and while I will likely rent movies from it again, there is much room for improvement.
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About ForrestCorbett.com

Posted on by Forrest Corbett — Posted in Life

“Starting out with print design in 1996, Forrest has worked his way across most every aspect of the print and web mediums. Having worked from scrubbing print plates to streaming audio/video server administration and from drawing with conte crayons to working with the latest in digital rights management, Forrest has always seen that to be the best in one area, he needed to know the aspects of all the surrounding areas.”

After all these years, I’ve finally decided to make some of my thoughts, perspectives, research…a little more public. Many requests have been made asking that I post my research, for example, for more to see. It often ends up on forums across the web. However, since I know not many will see it, I don’t put a strong effort into it.

With my “blog,” that changes.
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