Power Tip #4: Showing & Hiding Hidden Files on a Mac

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As a web developer I'm often working with .htaccess files in my projects. When I want to test a new .htaccess configuration for mod_rewrite I usually make an upload directly to the ftp server (not quite the best development cycle ;-)…

Making Screenshots on your iPhone

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Recently I was asked about how to make a simple screenshot on an iPhone. Although it’s not much of a secret there are still iPhone owners that don’t know how to do it.

You can achieve that by a very simple…

Activating Missing Ant Plugin in PDT Eclipse

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Did you ever wonder why there is no Ant support in your Eclipse installation?

If you are working with Eclipse as your standard IDE for PHP Projects you will probably use the PDT Eclipse environment which doesn’t include much of the Java project…

Power Tip #3: Speed Up Mail Client on Mac

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If you get a lot of emails or if you have an IMAP account you have maybe noticed that Mail gets slower and slower. The reason for the speed decrease is Mail’s Index file that grows with time. Deleting and moving mails causes…

100 Breathtaking Photoshop Tutorials (1st Part)

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This is the first part of my 100 favorite Photoshop tutorials on the Internet. These tutorials are of interest for web designer, graphics designers,  beginners  and Photoshop freaks.

In these tutorials you can learn a lot about different techniques and styles. Amazing…

Firefox 3.5 – Get your speediest, safest and most advanced Firefox now.

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The Mozilla Team has done a great job with the new Firefox 3.5 browser. FF 3.5 is twice as fast as FF 3 in terms of Javascript speed and even 10 times faster than FF 2.

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Smaller Memory Footprint

One of the things I…

Global Gaming Factory Acquires The Pirate Bay For $7.7 Million

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This morning Global Gaming Factory X AB (a Swedish software company) announced to buy file-sharing service The Pirate Bay for 60 Million Swedish crowns (approx. $7.7 Million). The transaction is scheduled to be closed in August 2009.

The Situation Change

One year ago the founders…

Google mistakes Michael Jackson Searches for DDOS Attack

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After Michael Jackson’s death last week searches on that topic increased dramatically at Google. Google mistook the millions of search queries for a distributed DoS attack.

As Google product manager R.J. Pittman said in a blog post:
“Search volume began to increase…

Let’s make the Web faster – Google’s new Code Section “Speed”

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I can still remember the first days of the web when I we were using Mosaic and later Netscape as browsers. Although websites consisted mostly of simple  text and a sometimes even some images, the speed was terrible. Sometimes it…

Missing the Extract Filter in Photoshop CS4? Download it from Adobe.com

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Photoshop comes with a very powerful filter for extracting complicated areas like hair, clouds, trees and others. Whenever I need to extract parts of an photo where there are no sharp edges the Extract Filter is the best tool for the job.

Photoshop CS4…