Gene Gable shares some insightful tips about how to avoid burnout at work based Harris Interactive® study completed for CareerBuilder.com.The study concluded that over 78% of workers felt burned out at work. One of the most popular options employees choose is alternative work schedules, compressed work weeks, or working from home. Gene, who works from home, warns that these options are not always the best solutions for reducing stress and can in fact create more stress in balancing your home and work life. Gene also reminds us the value of saying the word “no”. To read more on the story visit: http://www.creativepro.com/article/seventy-eight-percent-workers-say-they-are-burned-out-work

Design News of the Week with Jay Nelson

Jeff Gamut fills in for Jay again this week with some news about a new monitor from Hewlett-Packard, the HP DreamColor LP2480zx Professional Display and discusses some unique tri-color LED backlight technologies that help to acheive billions of color and includes presets for the most popular large color spaces including Adobe RGB. This LCD is built for graphic and photo professionals, and in fact was developed in part with the work HP has done with Dreamworks Animation Studios.

For more information about Jay, Jeff and Design Tools visit: http://www.design-tools.com.

Foster D. Coburn III, Author, Trainer, & Founder, Unleashed Productions, Inc. joins Inside Digital Design to share some insight and information about CorelDRAW products and users. Foster has written over 8 books and completed 45 training tapes teaching users how to make the most of CorelDRAW. Corel’s design tools offer an integrated graphics suite that are powerful but very easy to use at a very affordable price. Many people assume that most creative professionals use Adobe on a Mac as their primary design tool, however he explains there are many creative markets including fashion, sign making, embroidery and promotional products whose primary applications are Corel running on a Windows platform.

Foster describes some of the features and capabilities of the latest versions, which are also compatible with and available for the Mac OS. Foster has developed and is hosting a series of “Boot Camp” Training Seminars including a 7-day intensive vacation cruise session from Los Angeles to Mexico in January 2009.

To find out more about Foster’s books, training and other Corel resources visit: http://www.unleash.com

Scott and Gene round out the week with a productivity tip from David Allan’s “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity” about making a list to acheive your goals.

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