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…

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…

Power Tip #2: Softer Volume Control on a Mac

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This is another part of the Power Tip Series. Today I’d like to show you how to control the volume softer on a Mac.


Normal Volume Control

As you already know turning the sound volume up…

Reloading an IFrame via Ajax Request in Firefox and IE

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Recently I was working on a web project where I needed to show a preview window which was basically an IFrame. As the whole page navigation was based on Ajax calls I was looking for a bulletproof method for…

Brand-New iPhone OS 3.0 Update available

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The long awaited software update for the iPhone is finally available. There are no big surprises but some necessary features for your iPhone.

Copy, Cut & Paste

One of the features I was missing since the very first moment…

Power Tip #1: Forward Delete on a Mac

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As of now I will post from time to time short articles with interesting hints on various topics. These articles will be to short to call them tutorials and that’s why I introduced today the Power Tip series.

Today’s…

Fixing a broken Face Detection Database in iPhoto

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From time to time iPhoto’s face detection database gets broken and faces are not recognized on new imported photos. It can even happen that face information of old photos is lost or only partially working.

I think one of…

End of PageRank Sculpting with NoFollow Tag

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Back then when Matt Cutts described the use of PageRank sculpting on YouTube it became soon a very welcome method for SEO professionals to bring more important pages within a website to the top. Although it is a very…

WordPress 2.8 “Baker” released with major improvements

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WordPress has released the new 2.8 “Baker” version. I already did the automated update and I have to say that I really like it.

These are the new features of WP 2.8 Baker:

  • Browsing and installing new themes

Ultimate Spotlight Secrets on Mac OS X

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I think the majority of mac users would say that spotlight is a really nice tool. But most of them don’t even know what cool tricks Spotlight can even do. In my opinion, Spotlight is one of the best…