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Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta
December 17, 2006
Adobe released a public beta of Photoshop CS3 this past Friday. Except for finally being Universal Binary (which only Intel Mac people will care about), a refined interface (that some will hate, some will like, and some won't care about) and a couple of new features, it looks like CS3 isn't very different from CS2.
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Giving Up On Books
November 06, 2006
...that you don't like.
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Two Ways To Build A Pyramid
November 01, 2006
An excellent article on agile development. It explains why agile development is good by using a very nice example.
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Better Beginnings
October 27, 2006
Kathy Sierra talks about how To Start. Go read it right now, especiall if you're writing it's-a-dark-and-stormy-night fiction.
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Firefox 2.0 Is Out!
October 25, 2006
Go get it!
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Open Source Flash Animations
October 24, 2006
Very nice flash animations site that I found rotting in my never-ending bookmark list. "Sea thing" and "City lines" are especially great.
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Shopping Cart Icon
October 24, 2006
Released by Bartelme. Excellent!
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Designing with Colour
October 24, 2006
Just what it says. From Mark Boulton.
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Drop-Down Menus: Use Sparingly
October 20, 2006
"Drop-down menus are often more trouble than they are worth and can be confusing because Web designers use them for several different purposes. Also, scrolling menus reduce usability when they prevent users from seeing all their options in a single glance."
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IE 7 Released
October 20, 2006
I'm a little late on this, but Microsoft released the final version of IE7.
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IE Standalones from evolt.org
May 03, 2007
Want to test something in IE6 while running IE7? Simply download the executable and test away!
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How to Paint Mona Lisa in MS Paint
April 07, 2007
Insane! Doing this in Photoshop is one thing, but in MS Paint!
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Chalkwork Icons
April 07, 2007
High-quality collection of 70 icons from Dave Shea.
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Nomadic Functions
April 07, 2007
Small, optimized, and fairly-specific JavaScript functions such as "Ajax Star Rating" and "Drag & Drop." Via Veerle.
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ExpressionEngine got redesigned!
March 14, 2007
pMachine recently rebranded itself to EllisLab and their sites went through a fabulous redesign by the ever-amazing Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain.
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Awesome Puzzle-Pictures
February 05, 2007
Where a picture is worth 2000 words (or 11,000 words). You see something; you look again, you see something else. Very nice.
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Firefox Tip: Reopen the last closed Tab with CTRL+Shift+T
February 01, 2007
You can also go to History (ALT+S) > Recently Closed Tabs to get a list of sites you closed recently.
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Do I upgrade? Do I not upgrade? Yes? No? Maybe?
January 31, 2007
Going under the formidable title of "Windows Vista Upgrade Decision Flowchart," the, umm, flowchart is hilarious! Go read it; go on...I'll wait.
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10 Amazing Magic Tricks
January 22, 2007
My favorite has to be "#2. The Revolver," followed by "#10. Glass Through Table," though the ripping of the phone book (while not magic) was pretty awesome, as well.
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Microsoft Optical Mouse
January 19, 2007
I stumbled upon this page while looking around Microsoft Expression products. You must admit, the mouse looks pretty cool!
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