Well it has been awhile since we worked on the site so here is a little heads up on what has been going on. We started moving the system over from a movable type system to wordpress and after making about 30 layouts we finally picked one however mid process into coding the layout in wordpress both me and Mario were moving into new jobs so it kind of fell through the cracks for a bit.

Now that things are getting back to normal we will have time to finish up the new site and get it back on track to what our vision of it was orignally. We have some really great ideas for this site so stick around it will be coming soon.

Quick note that for right now comments are not enabled due to being spamed to hell from various spam pill pushers, so until the new site is up this will be disabled.

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Here's a great little tool I came across while searching for a shoutbox to put on my website. The crazy thing about this one is that it's made with AJAX, that's right - no refreshing involved. So now you can watch people post shouts on your website in realtime.

It's really easy to setup and should only take 10 minutes to setup on your own website. If you know how to upload files you should have no problem at all installing it.

Website: AJAX Shoutbox

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456 Berea St has made a list of knowledge levels for HTML specialists. It is actually a well made list that really shows the seperation of what people really know when dealing with HTML. Check it out and see what level you are.

Website: Levels of HTML Knowledge 

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Have you ever been using Photoshop and had so many layers you had no idea what was on each one? Well if you have I have a solution that should help you out. In Photoshop CS2 there is an option that will show your image in the layer palette as the actual size of the image and not the entire document. So instead of that big white box with something inside of it that you can't really tell what it is this will zoom the thumbnail to what that layer actually is.

If you wish to download an exe full sized version of this it is located here. Also, a fullsized web version is located here.

This is the first of many flash video tutorials I will be creating. So kick back and enjoy the show.

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Reflections.js has been in beta for awhile but with the new version it looks like a lot of the kinks have been worked out and it is very stable. What Reflections.js does is make a mirror image that is flipped vertically to display your image with a reflection. This gives the same effect of looking at a shoreline on a lake. If used correctly I could see this being a great solution for some cool easy effects.

Website: Reflection.js 

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Adobe is starting to leak some information on a few of the upcoming updates and new programs on the horizon. Most of the information is claiming that Adobe has its eyes set on taking on Quark and stomping them into the ground with the new InDesign. There has also been a lot of talk on Adobe Apollo which is supposed to be a desktop application flash program that can be run at boot which will fuse acrobat with flash and make developers lives hopefully a hell of a lot better. The bigger news however is that all CS3 applications are being launched in Spring of 2007, which is usually the case for Adobe's every 2 years pump out a new bundle tradition.

Websites: Adobe Looks to Photoshop to take on Quark , Adobe Reveals More Details On Apollo

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Google has released a Google Web Toolkit that empowers AJAX to help you create online applications easier. As a lot of you know most of the Google applications are based off AJAX and they were one of the first big companies to start using that technology for online applications, so they know a thing or two about what they are doing with AJAX. The Google Web Toolkit in essense is a framework for Java to output standards-compliant code that works on all broswers. I am glad to see a lot of companies (IBM, Adobe, Google, etc...) are trying to make AJAX easier on the end users.

Website: Google Web Toolkit , Download Google Web Toolkit

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