AKVIS has announced the release of AKVIS Enhancer plug-in v.5.0 for Windows and Macintosh. This version introduces the long-awaited batch mode that allows you to improve a series of pictures in a row, and the installation procedure for Macs has been simplified. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

My latest collection of Photoshop tips, tricks and tutorials. Look for the free plugin - Rainy Day! (posted by Jennifer Apple)

The editing and developing tools in Lightroom beta 4 share some similarities with Photoshop and Camera Raw, but there are significant differences. Here's how to get the most out of the new tools. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

Have a look through this great PingMag article about the different ways that creative marketers are getting attention in the Tokyo train system. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

The press release turned 100-years-old over the weekend. As search marketers debate over the future of the online press release, we can learn some important lessons from the early history of public relations.

Although most internet users turn to general-purpose search engines to find health related information, the majority don't bother to check the source and date of the information they find, according to a new study from the Pew Internet Project.

Continuing our four-part series on the special information sections creeping into general search results, today we take a look at Yahoo Shortcuts.

Miljan over at ComponentArt wrote his first post explaining how their migration to Beta 1 went (i.e. great, the whole thing was done in four days). He has some very nice things to say about the platform, which we're all very flattered about: "After getting over the initial hump, we found ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1 to be remarkably well functioning and stable."If you don't know ComponentArt, they are the publishers of one of the best component libraries for ASP.NET, and they're now building it for ASP.NET AJAX. Check it out.http://blogs.componentart.com/miljan/archive/2006/10/31/ASP.NET-AJAX-Beta-1-and-ComponentArt-Web.UI.aspx Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More... Share this post: Email it!...(read more)

Google engineer Aaron Hopkins wrote a good article on page loading times (via Harry). He talks about the impact of AJAX on page load times, focusing on connection limits, latency and the large number of external objects on your typical AJAX page. He offers a variety of tips on improving page load times, including doing more with the connections you have, busting the connection limit, caching, and sending less data.

I wrote about web page loading performance a while ago, when I linked to Dave Hyatt's most excellent explanation of the issues involved with testing page load speed. In fact the Safari browser blog endorses Aaron Hopkins article and mentions how to measure page loading times in Safari using the debug menu.

On the Mozillia front, the Tamper Data extension generates some amazing graphs of when elements on a page load and how long it takes.

On the topic of sending less data, the Yahoo! User Interface Blog weighs in on page waits with a discussion of javascript minimization versus compression. They also briefly cover the YUI decision to serve components à la carte, rather than in an aggregated file.

Cal Henderson of Flickr also takes up this topic in serving JavaScript fast. He goes into more depth about the issue of à la carte external objects versus aggregated external objects as well as covering compression and caching issues with examples in PHP.

From the PHP perspective, Michael J. Radwin and Rasmus Lerdorf have covered web application performance issues in conference talks.

Are your web pages cacheable or not?

On the home front, this is my first post on this blog since I've installed wp-cache2 and upgraded to eAccelerator 0.9.5. And my first post since my fishing vacation, too

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This collection of seven tips from Eclipse: Building Commercial Quality Plug-ins, by Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel, will teach you the fundamentals you need to understand to successfully develop an Eclipse plug-in in for your environment.

I just saw a cool screen cast on the Microsoft Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0…. Great stuff! It enables you to incrementally enhance your VB6 applications with the power of the .NET Framework…. It has been a while sense I have really wanted to install VB6, but this makes me want to just to see what I can do. I think this is a great solution for anyone supporting an existing VB6 app that wants to be able to leverage all the great stuff in the .NET Framework. The screen cast shows advanced databinding support, but there is much, much more power available in the .NET Framework. Has anyone tried this? What do you think? Read More... Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!...(read more)

A few tips ago I explained how you can use the indent function to create lists inside lists. ? You can create sub-bullets, and even mix lists types (bullet, number, alpha, etc). ? For example:

I was asked if it is possible to enter new lines within the list, without breaking the numbering. ? The answer is... Yes!

Instead of pressing ENTER, press SHIFT+ENTER. ? For example:

This is a list of five outstanding as well as uncommon Photoshop plugins which can help you with the most unusual requests from your always demanding clients.

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