Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta Out

The Photoshop CS6 beta is out there & has lots of features you need to try. Stunning new features really rocks!!

Here are some highlights :

• Content-Aware Patch — Patch images with greater control using the newest member of the Content-Aware family of technologies. Choose the sample area you want to use to create your patch, and then watch Content-Aware Patch magically blend pixels for a stunning result.
• Blazingly fast performance and a modern UI — Experience unprecedented performance with the Mercury Graphics Engine, which gives you near-instant results when you edit with key tools such as Liquify, Puppet Warp, and Crop.* Plus, a refined, fresh, and elegant Photoshop interface features dark background options that make your images pop.
• New and re-engineered design tools — Create superior designs fast. Get consistent formatting with type styles, create and apply custom strokes and dashed lines to shapes, quickly search layers, and much more.

Some Reviews:

Bejango.com take light on features for Interface designers http://bjango.com/articles/photoshopcs6/

Watch the Russell Brown’s 6 Favorite Features in Photoshop CS6 beta video

SpriteMapper: CSS Spritemap Generator

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Improve loading times. Only 10% of a webpage’s loading time is due to the actual page—the other 90% is spent downloading styles, scripts and images. By reducing the amount of images and better utilizing the connection, CSS spritemapping can reduce your website’s loading time.

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JSHint – A JavaScript Code Quality Tool

JSHint is a community-driven tool to detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code and to enforce your team’s coding conventions. It is very flexible so you can easily adjust it to your particular coding guidelines and the environment you expect your code to execute in.

Initializr – Start your HTML5 project in 15 seconds!

Initializr is a simple tool to help you getting started with an HTML5 project. It is built on HTML5 Boilerplate, a powerful HTML5 template created by Paul Irish and Divya Manian. Initializr will generate for you a clean customizable template based on Boilerplate with just what you need to start.

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In a nutshell, Vermis is all you need for the life cycle of your application

Vermis is an Open Source project, written in PHP and MySQL. It can be installed on almost any platform that supports PHP. It is based on Zend Framework and Doctrine ORM.

Vermis is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3.

Features

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• Multiple projects
• Multiple user accounts
• Project roles (leader, developer, observer)
• Different issue types:

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• Feature
• Improvement
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Sparkup – write HTML code faster

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Sparkup is written in Python, and requires Python 2.5 or newer (2.5 is preinstalled in Mac OS X Leopard). Sparkup also offers intregration into common text editors. Support for VIM and TextMate are currently included.

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• Firefox 1.5+
• Opera 9.50+
• Safari 4+
• Chrome 1+
• IE 6+ (with the Chrome Frame plugin, native IE9 support in 2.6)

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Download Google Chrome Frame to:

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Sites that utilize Google Chrome Frame become more responsive.

Enjoy more advanced features
With Google Chrome Frame, sites offer you new features based on open technologies.

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Are you planning a trip with some friends and looking for a place to spend the night? Make a URlist of the most interesting hotels and share the edit link with your fellow travelers: this way they can see your preferences and add theirs.

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Just change the settings and see how the rectangular box changes according to your changes.