Illustrator: Spazz Mode

I'm new to this blogging business and as yet nobody has even looked at this wonderful blog. Today I submitted this page to a number of blogging search engines, so hopefully there'll be some traffic soon. I live in hope...

Anyhow, here's a fun little thing you can do in Illustrator. When you're using any of the primitive drawing tools (i.e. rectangle, ellipse, polygon, line tool, etc.) simply hold down the tilde key (~) and you enter 'Spazz mode'. This enables you to very quickly create hundreds of paths and cause your computer to crash. It's very good for creating spirograph-type patters. Give it a try.

InDesign CS3 Easter Egg

Here's a nice Easter Egg available in the newest version of InDesign. Choose 'About InDesign' and then type the word 'Butterfly'. Do this carefully and you will get a reward!