Our friends at Smashing just released an article that features nothing but the ultimate list of must-have plugins for photoshop. It doesn't mean these plugins are free, of course, but it gives you a clear idea of how your plugin collection should look like if you're info serious graphic design.

» Ultimate Collection Of Useful Photoshop Plug-Ins

As web developers, web designers, graphic artists or information architects, we deal daily with a lot of documents. Files, applications, archives, that's a lot of information. We also exchange a lot of data with colleagues, co-workers, contractors, freelances... And in this mass of data, sometimes there are pieces we don't know. What if you're sent an obscure .ABT document and don't have a single clue what this file format is? Of course, you can Google it, but wouldn't it be nice to always be able to open any file you have, regardless if you have its native mother application or not? Now it's possible, thanks to OpenWith.org!

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If you're like us, you certainly have to work on international projects, or projects involving foreign languages and character sets. Handling many of these can be quite a nightmare, if you don't have the right tools. Hopefully, from time to time, you find on the web some fine gems that make your life easier...

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This morning, I was setting up a couple of new websites on my development server. The way I do this is very simple: since I use IIS7 on my development box, I change the default binding and map each new website to its new port — easy, quick and clean.

But today I encountered a small glitch: after I mapped port 87, I couldn't manage to access it from Firefox, no matter what I tried. Mozilla's browser wouldn't simply open the pages, and constantly kept to return the same error message.

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SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a delicate science that requires many things to work together ir order to be effective. One of those things is the sitemap, which you can think of as an "index" of your site: it's a document that will tell the search engines where to find the different parts of your website, and that makes sure that the engines don't forget to parse the latest data you have uploaded in your pages.

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When it comes to vector drawing, there isn't much choice available: only a few big names come to mind, like Adobe Illustrator, Adobe FreeHand, Corel Draw or Microsoft Expression Graphic Designer. All these applications are well known, with a strong reputation and a long list of success stories. The downside is, as always, the price — often quite high — that you have to pay to get your hands on these.

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If you have a digital still camera, you may take lots and lots of photos, but when it's two months since you took them, you'll have forgotten where you took them or who were with you.

Now and thanks to PhotoME, you will be able to view all the information which is automatically created by your camera, and in addition you'll be able to edit it, so you can add comments and other kind of data.

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