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Even if I do like and endorse free software I think that it will be useful to download the complete 278 page book, yours to keep, forever!
The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques is the ultimate Photoshop compendium for web designers.
From the annoucement we can read:
“It’s brimming with tried and [...]

On my italian blog one of the post which, over the time, is receiving more hits via search engines is the one about how to migrate your e-mails Microsoft Outlook to Mail.app (alias the default one included in the Mac OS X package).
Generally speaking I am seeing many “switchers” tryng the Outlook –> Entourage [...]

Getting back into blogging today I would like to tell you about a script that aims to improve the e-mail label management of Apple’s built in e-mail client Mail.app.
On the far away july 2006 I had the possibility to follow an advanced course of Mac OS X in the classrooms of the [...]

In the last couple of days I’ve been busy setting up an FTP server upon with a number of people could browse a group of directory and their files.
To achieve this I gave trust to pureftpd using a virtual users configurations, since my users won’t need a shell on the machine, following a clear [...]

To who, like me, has migrated his e-mail preferred client from Qualcomm’s Eudora to the more recent Mozilla Thunderbird sometimes gets a remembering of a pair of useful and pretty basic features not provided anywhere else (AFAIK).
In this post particularly I’m referring to the ability to divide the e-mail content from its attachment or embedded [...]

Some days ago I put on a sodebar of the homepage of my italian blog a particular icon. Since it’s a nice service that we - base level wordpress.com users - can’t apply to our blogs since it’s based on javascripts, I thought it would be nice to spend a row or two speaking [...]

MacHack.it/news displays a short and concise selection of Macintosh-related technical news from multiple sources:

NO rumors,
NO market shares,
NO iPod skins.

Just the facts and the hacks.
Sounds interesting to you too, or is it me ??

Today I’ve joined the 75613 (and counting) people petion to ask the national members of ISO to vote “NO” in the ballot of ISO DIS 29500 (Office OpenXML or OOXML format) for the following reasons:

There is already a standard ISO26300 named Open Document Format (ODF): a dual standard adds costs, uncertainty and confusion to industry, [...]

This weekend I’ve installed Mac OS X 10.3.9 on the Apple Powermac “Quicksilver” I’ve found abandoned in a magazine at work, since newest releases of the Apple operating systems (but most probably Spotlight) isn’t too kind over an ATA66 hard disk connection.
A bunch of software isn’t kept up to date with the mainstream release with [...]