By Michael Garmahis on August 31, 2009
Topaz Adjust is a Photoshop plugin that lets you make gorgeous looking HDR photos just from one image. Besides HDR look Topaz Adjust lets you create high contrast, ultra sharp looking images similar to Dave Hill look photo effect. In general, Topaz Adjust provides powerful control over image exposure, detail (or better say microcontrast), [...]
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By Michael Garmahis on August 27, 2009
MODx Web Development book from Packt Publishing provides great documentation for MODx CMS users (if you’re not familiar with this flexible and powerful CMS, check out How to make website with MODx CMS in 10 minutes. MODx Web Development book starts from how MODx fits into family of content management systems and goes to step [...]
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By Michael Garmahis on August 26, 2009
Firefox start up speed and operating speed is usually much faster after clean install rather than month of usage. As it turns out the time at Firefox start up is used to load .sqlite bases from your profile which are used to store the history, bookmarks, anti-phishing, etc. With intensive Firefox usage all these databases [...]
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By Michael Garmahis on August 11, 2009
Wireframes can be created in many ways with several tools depending upon one’s communication needs and budget. Most simply, pen and paper are key tools for creating web wireframes. In addition some designers and developers are using Illustrator, Fireworks or PowerPoint to create wireframes. There are also interactive wireframe tools available for use by designers, [...]
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By Michael Garmahis on August 6, 2009
What is wireframe? Why wireframes are essential in web development? How to use them to speed up web development? Those are questions we will talk about in this post. There are also basic tips on how to make a wireframe and which tool can be used to create wireframes. Using wireframes you can get people [...]
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