http://www.christian-kalmar.com Webdesign and Tutorials from Austria. Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:57:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ;-) ... I know). Trying to locate the file in Finder ... http://www.christian-kalmar.com/power-tip-4-showing-hiding-hidden-files-on-a-mac/ 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 key combo: Press shortly the Home button and the Power ... http://www.christian-kalmar.com/making-screenshots-on-your-iphone/ 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 tools. Ant is one of the very handy ... http://www.christian-kalmar.com/activating-missing-ant-plugin-in-pdt-eclipse/ 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 gaps in that index file.  To speed ... http://www.christian-kalmar.com/power-tip-3-speed-up-mail-client-on-mac/ 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 things you can do with Photoshop, try it and love ... http://www.christian-kalmar.com/100-breathtaking-photoshop-tutorials-1st-part/ 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. Smaller Memory Footprint One of the things I didn't like about Firefox was the fact that ... http://www.christian-kalmar.com/firefox-3-5-out-now-speediest-safest-advanced/ 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 of The Pirate Bay were sentenced to ... http://www.christian-kalmar.com/global-gaming-factory-acquires-the-pirate-bay/ 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 around 2:00pm, skyrocketed by 3:00pm, and stabilized by about ... http://www.christian-kalmar.com/google-michael-jacksons-ddos-attack/ 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 took minutes to load entire pages. Nowadays we have tons ... http://www.christian-kalmar.com/lets-make-the-web-faster-google-speed-new-code-section/ 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 does not include the Extract Filter in ... http://www.christian-kalmar.com/missing-extract-filter-photoshop-cs4-download-it/