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I generally design only for the latest browsers. If my code works on the most recent version of Safari, Opera, Firefox, and IE then I’m happy. However, Internet Explorer is such a piece of crap that sometimes atrocious errors on IE7 give me great pause. (As of this writing IE8 was the current browser.) I’ve said [...]

Oh Google. I love you in so many ways, and in some ways I’m just amazed you can even get out of bed and get yourself dressed in the morning. I’m a big fan of Google hosted email. You get that great Gmail experience, but with your own domain. It also incorporates Google Docs and Calendar [...]

"Using @font-face allows web designers a wide palette of font choices and with commercial font vendors supporting the WOFF font format, the set of font choices should improve even more. So the next step is clearly to try and make better use of features available in these fonts."

“But with regard to Patch Matching, it’s a miracle. It’s the next miracle. From what I’ve seen in Adobe’s lab, it’s going to be outstanding. We are making it possible to correct things so well, like getting rid of telephone or power lines going through photos, and this solves a common problem that photographers face. It’s a cool, easy-to-use technology which Adobe is working on.”

cs5.org brings us this cool video. I feel a lot of new Photoshop features are worthless, but this one definitely seems useful in general. It’s like a mega extension of the healing brush for that ex-boyfriend who just won’t go away!

Yes, its a cutsie name, but The Bug Genie is a PHP bug tracking system that is the opposite of Trac in the best possible ways. First of all you create a MySQL database and copy The Bug Genie files to your web server. Then you go to your website, where The Web Genie greets you [...]

I have just spent many hours of my life I will never get back trying to get the Trac bug tracking software set up. This software is truly junk. It’s not just that I can’t get it work, it’s that it is written as best it can to make users not be able to use it. [...]

Somehing scary happened with my Snow Leopard keyboard shortcuts. I accidentally went into Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard and checked “Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar” Don’t do it! Once you turn it on, there’s no getting rid of it. It’s a bug, but unselecting the check box will no do it. At some point I [...]

Well, even though my Apache issues with Snow Leopard were a bit frustrating, Snow Leopard has redeemed itself. First of all, it is noticeably faster. But second, printing and scanning is awesome. When I bought a MacBook a while ago, I got an HP C4580 printer/scanner for free. I didn’t really need a printer, but the [...]