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EpubSecrets.com, InCopySecrets.com, Spring-loaded shortcuts, Chad Chelius interview, Obscurity of the Week: Indic Script Preferences In this episode: News from the land of InDesign InCopySecrets.com and ePubSecrets.com are alive again! PePcon 2014 early bird deadline coming up! Spring-loaded shortcuts When they save time and not Other obscure "dynamic" shortcuts Interview with Chad Chelius, new Editor-in-Chief of InCopySecrets.com Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Indic Preferences Script News and special offers from our sponsors: >> InfoLogic's MathMagic Pro lets you quickly insert mathematical equations and scientific symbols into your InDesign document. It anchors an EPS of the equation at the text insertion point, automatically aligning the baseline of the equation to the text baseline, and can accept incoming equations from Word's Equation Editor, MathML, MathType, or LaTeX. Just double-click the anchored EPS to edit! Available for InDesign CS3 to CC, Mac or Windows. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Follow the instructions on this page to receive a free two-month subscription to MathMagic Pro ($100 value). Offer expires March 31, 2014! >> Recosoft makes the amazing PDF2ID, PDF-to-InDesign conversion tool for InDesign CS4 through CC (Creative Cloud). They also just released ID2Office v2.0 which adds support for InDesign CC and converts InDesign files to Word, PowerPoint and (new!) Keynote format. Special offer just for InDesignSecrets listeners, through April 15 2014, get 15% discount off PDF2ID v3.5 or ID2Office v2.0 with code ID_Secrets Links mentioned in this podcast: PePcon: The Print + ePublishing Conference Check out ePubSecrets.com and InCopySecrets.com Spring-Loaded shortcuts post Chad's new Lynda.com title, Creating Accessible PDFs Our accessibility page Chad's 1/2-day workshop at PePcon, CSS & HTML: What Designers Need to Know The T-key and U-key More info on typesetting Indic languages: this post, this help file, and this other help file

InDesign Magazine; PePcon 2014; Typekit; Hyperlinks; Workspaces; OFOTW: Clear All Details below! ------------------------  News from the land of InDesign InDesign Magazine goes monthly Magazine is now a benefit of InDesignSecrets.com paid membership Special instructions for existing InDesign Magazine subscribers New site up for PePcon 2014, just 4 months away! Answers to attendee questions from our InDesign Masters webinar, including: Typekit ins and outs Shared destination hyperlinks Previewing fonts tip Sharing custom workspaces Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Clear All News and special offers from our sponsors: >> InfoLogic's MathMagic Pro lets you quickly insert mathematical equations and scientific symbols into your InDesign document. It anchors an EPS of the equation at the text insertion point, automatically aligning the baseline of the equation to the text baseline, and can accept incoming equations from Word's Equation Editor, MathML, MathType, or LaTeX. Just double-click the anchored EPS to edit! Available for InDesign CS3 to CC, Mac or Windows. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Follow the instructions on this page to receive a free two-month subscription to MathMagic Pro ($100 value). Offer expires March 31, 2014! Links mentioned in this podcast: PePcon: The Print + ePublishing Conference Recording of Anne-Marie & David's "Secrets of the InDesign Masters" webinar (Flash required) This is a useful PDF for designers new to Typekit You don't need to have Creative Cloud to use Typekit desktop fonts We talked about shared hyperlink destinations in podcast 118 (transcript) How to do the cool font change preview trick Tool for quickly resizing all your scaled images to 100% David's favorite Mac utilities including the active app one

2011 PeP Conference; InDesign to EPUB; Acrobat X and InDesign; Quizzler winners (and a new Quizzler); Obscurity of the Week: Output Condition Name, Output Condition Indentifier, Registry Name ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-138.php for Show Notes, links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-138.mp3 (19.9 MB, 36:48 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference announcement! InDesign to EPUB: Recap and tips from Liz Castro's webinar Acrobat X and InDesign InDesignSecrets newsletter Quizzler winners ("How many InDesign users to change a lightbulb?") Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Output Condition Name, Output Condition Identifier, Registry Name New Quizzler! Listen to the episode to learn how to win -- News and special offers from our sponsors:   >> Recosoft is the developer of PDF2ID, the miraculous solution for converting PDF file to editable InDesign files. Install the software and you’ll be able to open (not just Place) PDFs in InDesign. Styles, tables, layers, threaded text, it all gets reconstituted. It’s amazing! The latest version, PDF2ID 3.0, is compatible with InDesign CS3, CS4, and CS5 on Macintosh and Windows platforms.   >> MathMagic, the ultimate equation editor from Info Logic, Inc., is a WYSIWYG equation editor/plug-in that lets you create inline, editable EPS equations from within InDesign (if you use the MathMagic Pro edition). It even converts equations set by Word’s Equation Editor, LaTex, MathML and MathType, to MathMagic-style equations. For InDesignSecrets listeners, they’re offering a time-limited discount of 25% off any MathMagic Pro product that’s $199US or more, until Dec. 30, 2010 (extended deadline!). Here are the details of the offer, or just remember to use the coupon code INDS at the MathMagic order page to get your discount. -- To enter this episode's Quizzler: Send an email to info@indesignsecrets.com with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line and your best answer in the body of the message. You have until Friday, Dec. 10, at midnight CST to send in your answer, one per user! We will choose the most correct answer, or in the case of a tie, we will randomly choose from the correct answer(s). Winner will be announced in the first podcast after Dec. 10. 2011! -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Liz Castro's webinars: InDesign to EPUB and Advanced EPUB Formatting > ePubChecker utility > Springy utility (for editing EPUBs and ZIPs without extracting files) OS X only > Acrobat X info and Anne-Marie's Acrobat X Essentials video lessons on Lynda.com > Download Reader X (free), available for Mac and Windows! > Don XX, the most interesting guy in the world > ICC registry profiles > Rimshot app (sound effects)

Acrobat X; Hyperlinks in InDesign CS5; Adobe's new Digital Publishing Suite; Obscurity of the Week: Preflight Report Template ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-136.php for Show Notes, Links, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-136.mp3 (15.9 MB, 29:13 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. It's learning week! Anne-Marie learns a couple Acrobat X tips David learns of a fix that helps InDesign CS5's Convert to Hyperlink feature We all learn the details of Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Preflight Report Template -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Recosoft is the developer of PDF2ID, the miraculous solution for converting PDF file to editable InDesign files. Install the software and you'll be able to open (not just Place) PDFs in InDesign. Styles, tables, layers, threaded text, it all gets reconstituted. It's amazing! The latest version, PDF2ID 3.0, is compatible with InDesign CS3, CS4, and CS5 on Macintosh and Windows platforms. >> MathMagic, the ultimate equation editor from Info Logic, Inc., is a WYSIWYG equation editor/plug-in that lets you create inline, editable EPS equations from within InDesign (if you use the MathMagic Pro edition). It even converts equations set by Word's Equation Editor, LaTex, MathML and MathType, to MathMagic-style equations. For InDesignSecrets listeners, they're offering a time-limited discount of 25% off any MathMagic Pro product that's $199US or more, until Nov. 30, 2010. Here are the details of the offer, or just remember to use the coupon code INDS at the MathMagic order page to get your discount. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Tons of Acrobat X (and earlier) info at AcrobatUsers.com > LaTeX is pronounced "lay tek" > About Calibre, the eBook utility, and its pronounciation > Liz Castro, EPUB guru, is doing two webinars on InDesign to EPUB! > Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite -- download it from Adobe Labs > Download a free sample of InDesign Magazine for the iPad, made with the Adobe DPS > Gartner Report on tablet sales > Subscribe to the newsletter for more discounts & the Quizzler!

All about Leading; Quizzler; Obscurity of the Week: Use Master Color-----------Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-127.php for Show notes, links, and to leave a comment!----------- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-127.mp3 (14.9 MB, 28:32 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. All About Leading Leading-related Preference settings When to use Auto-Leading and when not to Baseline grid and leading, First line offset and leading, and more! Quizzler! Ladies and Germs, man your InDesign tools Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Use Master Color InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: San Francisco & Chicago in June; LA, DC, Denver, and more in the fall! -- Quizzler instructions: Think you have the answer to this episode's Quizzler? Do not post it here in a comment! Instead, send your answer(s) in an e-mail to info@indesignsecrets.com, with the word QUIZZLER in the subject line. (Note: InDesignSecrets.com contributors, past and present, aren't eligible. Sorry, Fritz!) Deadline for receipt of entries is midnight PST on Friday, June 18, 2010. The top two winners will each receive a copy of Real World Illustrator CS4 — we will notify you by email if you win. In the case of a three- or more-way tie, we'll choose two winners randomly. Good luck! -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko (“Slash the time it takes!”) has a number of cool plug-ins for InDesign users that slash the amount of time it takes to get something done! We love FrameReporter ($29 US) because it lets you see small informational tags when you click on a frame, such as the image’s effective resolution or how many words are overset. You can even use it to name frames, and then navigate around your layout via the names. Special for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS127 in the Rorohiko.com store to get 25% off the FrameReporter plug-in. >> CtrlPublishing offers a highly useful plugin called CtrlChanges that lets you track text changes in InDesign CS3, CS4, and CS5, just like in Microsoft Word and InCopy. With the CtrlChanges plug-in you can see the tracked changes markup in the layout as well as the Story Editor, and you can print them too! (Two features that not even the new Track Changes feature in CS5 has.) There’s a free trial available, and listeners of the podcast get a 15% discount on CtrlPublishing’s web store if you use the coupon code CTRLOFFER5. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > All posts tagged with "leading" in InDesignSecrets.com > Blog post about Rogue Leading and When Leading is Ignored > Podcast #95 had Skip by Leading as its OIFOTW > White Labels > InDesignSecretsLive! Seminars

CS5 ships; Michael Ninness interview; Conference and Seminar updates; Obscurity of the Week: Set Tab Order------Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-124.php for details, Show Notes, and to leave a comment!-----Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-124.mp3 (19.9 MB, 39:28 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Adobe CS5 is shipping! Books, videos, online help files, and more Interview with Michael Ninness, Adobe's past Product Manager for InDesign 2010 Print and ePublishing Conference update InDesignSecretsLive Seminars: Atlanta, San Francisco, and Chicago! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Set Tab Order News and special offers from our sponsors: >> CtrlPublishing offers a highly useful plugin called CtrlChanges that lets you track text changes in InDesign CS3, CS4, and CS5, just like in Microsoft Word and InCopy. With the CtrlChanges plug-in you can see the tracked changes markup in the layout as well as the Story Editor, and you can print them too! (Two features that not even the new Track Changes feature in CS5 has.) There's a free trial available, and listeners of the podcast get a 15% discount on CtrlPublishing's web store if you use the coupon code CTRLOFFER5. >> PrePress Studio sells eDocker, a wonderful utility program for any InDesign CS4 or CS5 user who exports files to SWF. eDocker makes the SWFs more user-friendly in the browser because it lets you add page navigation and zoom controls, among other goodies. Try the free 3-day trial or purchase eDocker at this special URL and enter the coupon code IDS1 for 10% off. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Our posts about CS5 shipping and our round-up of InDesign CS5 new features > Michael Ninness' post about InDesign CS5 > Adobe's official CS5 Design Premium and InDesign CS5 pages > David's InDesign CS5 Essential Training > Anne-Marie's InDesign CS5 New Features video tutorials at Lynda.com > Print and ePublishing Conference agenda and speaker bios > What happens to a dream deferred?

Multiple-place tip; Acrobat.com; 6.03 Update; Obscurity of the Week: POSIX ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/indesignsecrets-podcast-105.php for Show Notes, links, coupon codes, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-105.mp3 (10.1 MB, 11:25 minutes) The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Multiple-place tips for InDesign CS3 and CS4 Acrobat.com officially released, new features InDesign/InCopy 6.03 Update Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: POSIX News and special offers from our sponsors: >> In-Tools has a special deal for InDesignSecrets fans: $20 off the price for either one of their InDesign plug-in bundles, InBook or InSefer, if you purchase from this special page on their site. The InBook Plug-in Pack is a suite of plug-ins that turn InDesign into an advanced automated pagination system for laying out books.The InSefer suite of plug-ins does the same for Hebrew publications. We talked about a few of the InBook plug-ins in the podcast, but the full list is here. >> UK-based Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Center, is giving away one free 2-day InDesign class to a lucky InDesignSecrets.com listener. Classes will be held in Cardiff or London, U.K. To enter the drawing for the free class, go to http://www.certitec.com/indesignsecrets.html and fill out the form. Quick! You only have 14 days from the date of this podcast to enter the drawing. If you don’t win, you can always register for any 2009 class at Certitec for 10% off if you mention “InDesignSecrets” when registering. >> Adobe Systems has a new promotion called A Suite Deal which lasts until August 31, 2009. Until that date you can save $100 when you upgrade to Creative Suite 4. Visit the Suite Deal page for details. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: James Fritz's blog post about multiple-placing Download the InDesign/InCopy 6.03 update Acrobat.com promotion discount (save $50 on annual subscription) Adobe Labs' Presentations and Tables, Acrobat.com apps in development Jay Nelson's DesignTools Monthly newsletter More on POSIX

In this episode we'll see how photographers that shoot in RAW format can use their photos in Adobe InDesign CS3. Whether you use Bridge or Lightroom, I'll show you workflows that work with either product.

Here's Part 2 of the InDesign tutorials. This is content used in last year's academy that can hopefully help you get started with using InDesign CS3.

This week we'll take a VERY basic look at InDesign CS3. Stay tuned for part II of InDesign next week!

NZ Conference; Camera Raw in InDesign; Quizzler answer and winner; "Sphinx" pangram t-shirts; GREP; Obscurity of the Week: Fixed Column Width ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links mentioned in the podcast, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-080.mp3 (16.3 MB, 35:40 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) New Zealand ID Conference Recap Interview: Mike McHugh describes his Camera Raw in InDesign tip "Pangram" Quizzler Winner--and Answer! New in the InDesignSecrets store: "Sphinx" t-shirts! Getting a Grip on GREP Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Fixed Column Width Links mentioned in the Podcast: Sweet deal from our sponsor! Recosoft's PDF2ID plug-in discount, just for InDesignSecrets users (limited time offer) David's post about Mike's Camera Raw tip Mike McHugh's videocast, CreativeSweetTV.com Wikipedia explains what a pangram is Our "Sphinx of Black Quartz" t-shirts! David's Joy of Pi book Mac OS X GREP-friendly text editor (free) TextWrangler Windows GREP-friendly text editor ($50US) UltraEdit Peter Kahrel's GREP in InDesign CS3 e-book Links to GREP-related posts on InDesignSecrets.com

In this episode I'm going to walk you through a layout in InDesign CS3 from start to finish. That's right, we're going to start with a blank document and build a 2 page spread.

The following tip gives an example of how to use the Layout Zone script from Martinho da Gloria in a small newspaper workflow

Adobe Illustrator CS3 has this really cool Color Guide feature for maintaining color harmony. However, InDesign doesn't have this feature. So in this episode we'll see how to steal some colors from Illustrator to use in InDesign.

The following tip gives an another example of how the Free Typefi’s Autofit plug-in - downloadable from www.typefi.com can be used with InDesign. In this tip you’ll learn how to create a one-to-many relationship that results in a background tint with two rounded corners expanding as the parent text frame grows.

The following tip will demo the use of sample scripts in InDesign CS3, it teaches you how to install new scripts, run scripts, assign shortcuts to scripts and provides an overview of the CornerEffects.jsx sample script.

New Year's Podcast responses; Deke McClelland interview; Quizzler!; Obscurity of the Week: View Box ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for Show Notes, links mentioned in the podcast, and to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-069.mp3 (15.7 MB, 34:23 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) Response to our New Year's show The Deke McClelland Interview! A fun, raucous conversation with a luminary in our field. Listen in as Deke tells us about his latest book and videos on InDesign CS3, and what it's like laying out a complex book on InDesign in InDesign: the good, the bad, and the aggravating. ("Does this sound like a feature to you?" he asks at one point, laughing.) Quizzler -ler -ler! Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: View Box Links mentioned in the Podcast: Deke's new book Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One David's post about modifying Basic Styles Quizzler Instructions: Think you have the best answer? Write it up in an e-mail and send it to us at info@indesignsecrets.com with "Quizzler" in the Subject line. (Don't post your answer as a comment!) Deadline for entries is midnight on Friday, Jan. 18. We'll announce the winner -- and the Quizzler answer, boy howdy we'll never forget to do that again -- in our next podcast.

The following tip gives an another example of how the Free Typefi's Autofit plug-in - downloadable from www.typefi.com can be used with InDesign. In this tip you'll learn how text is run-into a Header-Text Frame and a Body Content Text-Frame that are threaded to eachother. As the text is formatted with Paragraph Styles, the Header and Body Content Text Frames automatically grow to fit the header text and to balance the body content across three columns.

In this episode special guest Chita Hunter gives an interesting look at creating "custom" Anchored Objects in Adobe InDesign CS3.

In this episode special guest Chita Hunter returns to share an awesome tip for using the expression based language GREP in InDesign CS3's newly improved Find/Change dialog.

In this episode special guest Chita Hunter returns to show us how to create personalized designs or collateral in InDesign CS3 using the DataMerge feature.

In this episode we'll explore the concept of Master Pages and more importantly how to unlock specific Master Items on case by case basis. You can quickly and easily turn a Master Item into a document page item.

In this episode we take a look at various ways of creating interesting shapes in InDesign CS3. These shapes can be used as frames for both text and images. This clip is an excerpt from my upcoming Intermediate InDesign CS3 DVD.

Adobe InDesign CS3 earns 5 cats. We'll answer questions about the Storm worm and about a spammer that's disguised as a soccial networking site. The stupid spam of the week is laughable and in Nerdly News there's a story about indignant Iphone buyers.

In this episode we learn some tricks to allow you to create a default fitting for all new frames that you create in your documents. With InDesign CS3's new ability to assign a fitting option to a frame, you'll want to check out this episode to see how to do it for all of your frames going forward.

In this episode special guest Tom Petrillo, Adobe Systems takes us through the process of applying metadata in Bridge CS3 and then using that metadata automatically in InDesign CS3

In this episode we'll take a look at the new Numbering options in InDesign CS3. Now with InDesign you can create more sophisticated paragraph numbering schemes and tie them to paragraph styles.

InDesign CS3 has a ton of little refinements that may go unnoticed if you're not careful. In this episode we take a look at one of those little refinements in the InDesign CS3 Contact Sheet feature. We can now totally customize our captions to include metadata from the files we're using to build the contact sheet.

InDesign has always had a powerful Find/Change utility. However, in InDesign CS3 it goes way above the call of duty and goes beyond text. In this episode we'll see how to Find and Change colors in your document as well as take a peek at the new GREP searching capabilities to Find and Change in ways that just weren't possible before.

We're 50!; Quizzler Winner (OS Color Picker); News; Unembeddable fonts; Printing Link Info; Obscurity of the Week: Crop Amount ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts for details, show notes, or to leave a comment! ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-050.mp3 (13.8 MB, 29:01 minutes) (the transcript of this podcast will be posted soon) We're 50! Quizzler Winner — Where's the System Color Picker? News: Free CS3 Tryouts and manuals, Tim Cole's InDesign blog, Upcoming conferences Dealing with "protected" fonts (unembeddable in a PDF) Hot Button Post of the Week: Printing a List of Links Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Crop Amount Links mentioned in the podcast: InDesign CS3 tryout and documentation from Adobe Tim Cole's InDesign BackChannel blog The InDesign Conference, New York City, NY, June 4–8, 2007. Enter coupon code ISDISBC07 for $100 off the registration fee. Melbourne, Australia InDesign conference, Tokyo InDesign conference (link to come), Chicago CS3 Summit Letterheadfonts.com and the Typophile.com thread about it Download Martin Fischer's LinkExport.jsx script (zipped file) Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!

Tables were a welcome addition to InDesign CS. However, one of the most popular requested features has been Table Styles. Ask no more, you now have Table Styles in InDesign CS3. In this episode we'll explore how to create one from scratch. We'll also see how to incorporate Paragraph Styles so that our text is formatted at the same time as our table.

InDesign CS3 just keeps getting better. In this NEW CS3 version, InDesign's transparency effects become even more powerful. InDesign borrows some of our most favorite effects from Photoshop. In this episode we'll take a look at the new Effects Panel.

Icons and panels and docks...oh my! At long last, the wait is over and the veil of secrecy is lifted. In this first look at InDesign CS3, I give a glimpse of what the new version looks like, because Adobe has given it -- and all of the Creative Suite applications -- a new user interface. Goodbye palettes (technically)...hello panels and docks. Here's a very brief glimpse at what users can expect to see when they finally get InDesign CS3 in their hot little hands.

InDesign CS3! New features, fixes, pricing; Obscurity of the Week: Fill With Placeholder Text ----- Details below, or go to http://indesignsecrets.com/category/podcasts/ for Show Notes, Links mentioned in the podcast, and to leave your comments. ----- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-046.mp3 (13 MB, 27:19 minutes) (a transcript of this podcast will be posted shortly) All about InDesign CS3: Our favorite new features, including Table and Cell Styles, Variables, Placing InDesign files, Find/Change with GREP, Find/Change object attributes, and more Our favorite improved features, including scaling fixes, folders in Styles panels, page previews in the Pages panel, Align to Page, Synchronize master pages, and more Pricing information Other great resources to learn about InDesign CS3 Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Fill With Placeholder Text Our sponsor for this episode: DTP Tools, makers of cool InDesign plug-ins like History, Layer Groups, Tetris, and PageControl (the latter the brainchild of InDesignSecrets contributor Pariah Burke). Special offer for InDesignSecrets listeners: Use the coupon code IDSECRETS for 15% off any plug-in from their on-line store. Links mentioned in the podcast: InDesign Magazine special offer. Go to the link, choose "2-year subscription for $69" option, and enter indesignsecrets to receive two years of back issues, free, along with your subscription. The upcoming issue is full of in-depth articles about InDesign CS3 new features. The InDesigner videocast. Michael's latest episode (#38) shows off InDesign CS3's new interface, and all the neat tricks you can do with it. Adobe.com for Creative Suite 3 info from the horse's mouth Gutenberg Project is Anne-Marie's favorite source for placeholder.txt copy Lorem-Ipsum Generator caught David's fancy Listener Comment Line: +1-206-888-INDY (-4639) Talk to us, baby: Leave a message!