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A few great Photoshop tutorials.

From matthewb:

Super-polished screencasting site that uses a Java applet to enable screen recording of any app on your desktop without requiring any software installation. The interface design, Twitter integration and ease of use are top notch, and the files play on iPhone as well as in the site’s Flash player. Great idea.

Structure is an awesome new way to build ExpressionEngine sites. It forgoes the current template_group/template setup and creates âstaticâ and âlistingâ pages that are all editable through a…

A simple self-install URL shortener, Lessn by Shaun Inman

Typography on the web is anything but simple, and for many, it is a troubling mystery. Net Tuts reviewed six ways that web designers and developers can improve the typography of the sites they create.

Happy to see tr.im off life support. Hopefully they’ll be able to find a business model that allows them to stay up permanently.

How to go about designing your first iPhone application.

… all tr.im links will continue to redirect, and will do so until at least December 31, 2009. Your tweets with tr.im URLs in them will not be affected.

We regret that it came to this, but all of our efforts to avoid it failed. No business we approached wanted to purchase tr.im for even a minor amount. There is no way for us to monetize URL shortening — users won’t pay for it — and we just can’t justify further devleopment since Twitter has all but annointed bit.ly the market winner. There is simply no point for us to continue operating tr.im, and pay for its upkeep.

This is a sad and unfortunate turn of events. I recently switched to bit.ly but never lost any love for tr.im.

CNN has an articles about how web designers are trying to kill off IE6. While their nothing relatively interesting about the article that I didn’t already know from the chatter in the blogosphere, it is interesting seeing it get attention on a national scale.

GetGravatar is an awesome jQuery plugin that fetches a users Gravitar icon.