Alien Skin Software today released the Eye Candy Effects Collection, a bundle of the award-winning Eye Candy, Xenofex, and Snap Art plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop and other image editors. The Eye Candy Effects Collection includes 54 special effects filters with over 1000 one-click settings. (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com)

Total Training has announced Photoshop CS3 Extended Essentials, featuring 8 hours of Photoshop CS3 training on 2 DVDs. This new set is available from the Total Training site and is on special at an introductory price of $99.99. Use our special exclusive discount code to get a 20% instant reduction - bringing the total to $79.99. (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com)

Our friend Mark Galer has sent us an extensive tutorial - Adobe Photoshop CS3 - HDR - High Dynamic Range - taken from his new Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills book. (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com)

Each year for the past three years, mobile search has been predicted to break out. It hasn't yet, but there are signs that 2007 could be the year those predictions finally come true.

Found in the search marketing forums: Link Buying Taken To The Extreme; How Does a SE Access Dynamic Content? Does "Set I and Forget It" Work? and more.

Earlier this week I presented three breakout sessions at the ASP.NET Connections conference in Orlando. Below are the slides / demos for each of the talks I gave: Introduction to "WPF/E" This talk provides a good introduction to "WPF/E" - which is the code-name for a new small, cross platform browser runtime that enables developers and designers to deliver richer, more interactive web experiences. I first blogged about "WPF/E" here . You can download the slides+demos from my WPF/E talk here (it includes a video sample - which makes the overall download ~10MB). The talk provides an overview of the core capabilities within the WPF/E CTPs today, and also demonstrates the core XAML and JavaScript programming model concepts you use. For more "WPF/E"...(read more)

Sorry, no Notes post today, crazy busy... but here is some Friday fun.

http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/face-recognition.php

We have made an educational film that we hope will alert the SOA community to the dangers involved in coupling services and/or applications at the

I corrected a few remaining errors in our O'Reilly shortcut on UpdatePanel (mainly references to the old Atlas codename). If you already bought it, you can download the new version for free. And if you haven't, what are you waiting for? ;) http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/atlasupc Read More......(read more)

Many thanks to the nearly 500 people who attended my webcast with Telerik yesterday. Todd is working on getting the code for me to post. (Since some of the demo was for an unreleased product he needs to try to find a .dll that we can include. You can see all the answers to the questions that we didn’t have time for HERE . http://www.joeon.net/blogfiles/TelerikQA.htm You can get the PowerPoint HERE . http://www.joeon.net/blogfiles/Telerik.ppt Read More......(read more)

Krzysztof Cwalina (co-author of Framework Design Guidelines) recently did a talk for the Microsoft Research Group on great framework design. Online lecture on API design I gave a lecture on framework design at the Redmond’s Microsoft Research Center. They recorder and posted it on the Research Channel . You can see it here . It’s more than 3 hours long, but I think you will find it worth the time. Let me know what you think One of my favorite slides... Read More......(read more)

At VSConnections in Vegas Eileen Rumwell had comedian Greg Proops interview some of us. It was off the cuff and fun. The conversation was about 10 minutes, but this 1 minute short is me getting completely railed. Amusing to say the least. Oh and if that isn't enough -- i found this post by Eileen too -- transcribed below so you can laugh at us. Do the Support People in India Know About the Helamonsters? What's a helamonster? Sand, steam, water powered pcs, and how to motivate the damn things. Is that a reinstall or just a reboot? And Brian is in marketing ... http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=7fe1d278-9301-42ca-8791-af6e0140bf27 Who was Maria Tall Chief Anyway? http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=a6c068de-a957-40cc-b02f-f1ed839e3aed Read...(read more)

Because some Lotus Notes and Domino shops have their current server name deeply embedded in their Lotus Notes agents, they cannot replace their server with one that has a new name. This makes a gradual server upgrade impossible. To solve this dilemma, SearchDomino.com contributor Chuck Connell explains step-by-step how to bring up a new server with the exact same name (server ID) as an old server in order to perform an in-place upgrade of Lotus Domino server hardware.

The next in the 3 rd Party AJAX Web Cast Series is Thursday March 29 th ASP.NET AJAX the Codeless Way: Telerik AJAX Manager in Action Ever dreamed about a shortcut to building ASP.NET AJAX-enabled applications? One that eliminates the need for writing JavaScript, placing UpdatePanels all over your form, setting dozens of Triggers? Now, wake up and watch carefully, because this is already possible in real world, thanks to a new control from Telerik, called ASP.NET AJAX Manager. Join us for a practical demonstration led by Todd Anglin , a Telerik Technical Evangelist. First, Todd will build a typical ASP.NET application using third-party controls for the rich UI. This app will perform regular postbacks. Then he will add Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX...(read more)

In my current project we are creating word 2007 document at runtime. I am developing Java component that takes word 2007 template (dotx) files as

A friend of mine found out about a product that was first seen by them from a spam comment someone left on my site. The product helped automate content generation and syndication, aiming to help new webmasters distribute slightly unique spam across the web. My friend gave that person his email address and they email spam him non-stop. Marketing offers are no better than the marketing method they use to find you.

In this tip I first introduce you to the power of the Lotus Notes Properties Box. ? Today I want to explain how you can use a minimized version of the property box to easily access several formatting features.

To minimize the Properties Box you can either double click anywhere along the title bar (the left arrow shown below) or you can click on the minimize icon on the right hand side of the title bar.



The result will be a smaller version of the properties box, which allows you to format text, create tables, insert pictures, and even toggle the yellow text highlighter on and off. ?(my favourite part, since there is no toolbar icon for the highlighters)

It's almost Easter and so it's time for some Easter Photoshop brushes. Lucky for us Janita of Seishido has been busy creating some intriguing bunny sets! So here they are, with all the intricate brush details from Janita herself... (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com)