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# Episode 16 - Building a Feedback Community Carl Smith discusses how to establish a community where designers can give and receive constructive feedback on their work, emphasizing the value of peer critique in improving design practice. # Episode 15 - How to Review Your Portfolio The episode explores strategies for curating which projects to display on social media design platforms like Behance, focusing on selecting work that best represents your skills and attracts the right clients. # Episode 14 - Where Does Customer Service End? Using Zappos as a model, the episode examines how far designers should go in exceeding customer expectations and when going above and beyond might cross into unsustainable service territory. # Episode 13 - Screencasting for Communication Screenr is an online screencasting tool created by 45 Royale that simplifies video creation by allowing users to sign up via Twitter and record screen demonstrations, useful for design communication and client presentations. # 50 Clean, Sleek, and Modern Website Designs A showcase of contemporary websites exemplifying minimalist and modern design principles, curated to inspire designers interested in clean, simple aesthetic approaches.

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Moving your iTunes Library to a New Hard Drive

This guide explains how to properly move an iTunes library to a new location—whether to an external drive, secondary internal drive, or new computer—by distinguishing between the iTunes library database (the index file) and the iTunes Media folder (the actual content files). The key insight is that iTunes stores full file paths in its database, so manually moving files will break those links; instead, users should use iTunes' "Consolidate Files" feature, which copies files to the new location while updating the database references. The article also covers iTunes' distinction between "managed" files (stored in the iTunes Media folder and controlled by iTunes) and "referenced" files (stored elsewhere and merely pointed to by iTunes), explaining how this affects relocation options and whether users can preserve their own file organization.

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