Neil Dennis

Travel Insurance - Don't leave home without it

According to a new survey done by Sainsbury's Finance, one in four Britons plans to holiday without travel insurance and risk having to spend thousands in repatriation costs. Nearly a third of those claim they do not need travel insurance, while a fifth ... Read >

Protect your laptop with Business Travel cover

How easy it is to lose your laptop? Well, latest reach for Dell suggests that the chances are fairly high if you ask someone to keep an eye on it for you when at the airport. A staggering 42% of respondents who lost their laptop had trusted someone to loo... Read >

Travel delay fears at Spanish airports

You would have thought that winning the European Football Championships that it would all be goodness and light when it came to Spain this summer. However, not even this can ease possible delays at Spanish airports in July. Spanish police are now threa... Read >

Credit Crunch – don’t be a victim!

Open any newspaper, listen to the radio or switch on the TV and the news is the same - "it's the economy, stupid" as our erstwhile politicians keep telling us!… The economy isn't exactly in a great shape, so in the words often favoured by Chancellors of... Read >

Lost bags and travel delay

As the summer holiday season hots up, don't allow luggage mountains, airlines going bust or airport delays spoil your day. Stuff of nightmares perhaps but the recent the baggage chaos at Heathrow Terminal 5 is still a vivid enough memory to show what can ... Read >

Happy Campers!

The falling value of the pound abroad and credit crunch at home does not mean total gloom and doom for the holiday maker this year. Most travel commentators are now indicating a boom in camping holidays in the UK and caravans look likely to make a comebac... Read >

UK Boat Owners on the Look-Out for Biodiesel

As November 1st 2008 approaches and the end to UK Red Diesel derogation, yacht owners are sharing an interest in alternative fuels one being Biodiesel. What are the benefits for boat owners and who will supply it? Biodiesel refers to a non-petroleum-bas... Read >

Helicopter or fixed wing aircraft – a stable platform for aerial photography?

There are many ways to elevate a camera to achieve the required angle and content in an image. Photographers undertaking Commercial Aerial Photography have many choices of platforms on which to elevate themselves but the two main options are either a fixe... Read >

Aerial archiving – the value of commercial aerial photographic libraries?

Photographs create a snapshot in time which can never be exactly replicated. Large Commercial Aerial Photography companies will archive every image using a system which allows rapid image retrieval. The images have a value because they can be sourced and ... Read >

DVD Maintenance How to Make you DVDs Stay In Good Shape

There are several ways of making sure your DVDs remain useable. Some we already know such as, handling the disc by the edges. Always keep it dust free by putting it back in its case or sleeve. The data side always needs to be kept away from any oil based ... Read >

What Is Correct File Format & Artwork Specification to use?

There are several different file formats/programs you can supply your artwork for CD/DVD printing and packaging/cover designs. I would like to just touch on a few most commonly used. Nearly all printers accept high resolution PDFs. You can use Adobe Acrob... Read >

Choosing a good designer - What to look for?

Let's face it, it's never going to be an easy task looking for a good designer. There are a lot of affordable graphic designers that are readily available but more often than not, they are out for good references. This market can be quite confusing. The q... Read >

Which CD/DVD Packaging best suits my needs?

Corporate clients have the most interesting ideas for promoting products/concepts on CDs or DVDs. These tend to be the more creative/specialist packaging ideas. If you are at a conference/seminar where CDs & DVDs are handed out, the packaging for this ten... Read >

4) a. Different Types of Packaging

There are standard CD/DVD printing and packaging styles and products, which are recognised in the audio and corporate markets. As we become more concerned for our environment and climate changes, this has prompted the use of recycled products. These mainl... Read >

Artwork Guidelines & Templates for CD/DVD Printing and Paper Parts

There are sites with guidelines on how to lay out your artwork ready for printing onto a CD/DVD. These guidelines show you what the maximum and minimum print areas for CD's, DVD's, CD Booklets, CD rear inlays, DVD sleeves and Card Wallets. The main thi... Read >