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New Plugins

Custom Image Sizes

Causes WordPress to create custom sizes for your images when you call wp_get_attachment_image() and related functions

Hello in all Languages

Hello in all Languages displays a “hello” word translated to the official language of the country the visitor’s IP belongs to.

Chibipaint for WordPress

This plugin integrates the java applet “Chibipaint” with WordPress. This allows the user to draw and save their drawings directly to the server. Features included are editing and mass deletion, editable preset and user-defined templates and canvas sizes.

NdB_UserHidden

Ndb_UserHidden hides parts of wordpress posts for unidentified end users. By surrounding private text with [hide] and [/hide] tags you can force guest users to register and login to view member-only content. This plugin is interesting for webmasters that want to expand their user base for newsletters and other purposes. For download sites it will force users to identify themselves before downloads are shown.

WordPress Tweeter

WordPress Tweeter is a plugin that will update your twitter account every time you make a new post on your blog. You will be able to use your own tweet template.

Updated Plugins

WP Minify

This plugin helps you easily integrate the Minify engine into your WordPress blog. Once enabled, this plugin will combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time.

GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support. Plugin can be integrated with comments for making a review website.

Table of Contents Creator

Table of Contents Creator (TOCC) automatically generates a highly customizable dynamic site wide table of contents that is always up-to-date. All entries are navigable making your site very SEO friendly. TOCC can be configured to display static pages, blog entries and forum comments.

NextGEN Gallery

A photo gallery management plugin

Hikari Email & URL Obfuscator

Email and normal links are obfuscated, hiding them from spambots. It automatically encodes each link, then uses JavaScript to decode and show them. Disabled JavaScript users get access to obfuscated links too.

Hikari Titled Comments

Hikari Titled Comments enables each comment to have a title, so that commentators can give a subject meaning to their comments

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The Photoshop scratch disk is your hard drive. Photoshop uses your hard drive as temporary “swap” space, or virtual memory, when your system does not have enough RAM to perform an operation. If you only have one hard drive or partition in your computer, then the scratch disk will be the drive where your operating system is installed (the C drive on a Windows system).

Setting Up Scratch Disks
You can change the scratch disk location and add multiple scratch disks from Photoshop Preferences. Many power users like to create a dedicated hard drive partition for the Photoshop scratch disk. Although Photoshop will function with a single scratch disk on the system partition, you can improve performance by setting the scratch disk to be the fastest drive in your system. Other useful guidelines for setting scratch disks are to avoid using the same drive where your operating system is installed, avoid using a drive where the files you edit are stored, and don’t use network or removable drives for a scratch disk.

Delete Photoshop Temp Files
If Photoshop is shut down improperly or crashes in the middle of an editing session, this can leave fairly large temporary files behind on your scratch disk. Photoshop’s temp files are typically named ~PST####.tmp on Windows and Temp#### on Macintosh, where #### is a series of numbers. These are safe to delete.

Clear Disk Space
If you’re getting an error message that the scratch disk is full, it usually means you need to clear some space on whatever drive is defined as the scratch disk in Photoshop Preferences, or add additional drives for Photoshop to use as scratch space.

Defragment Your Hard Disk
It is also possible to get the “scratch disk is full” error, even if the scratch disk drive has free space. This is because Photoshop requires contiguous, unfragmented free space on the scratch disk drive. If you are getting the “scratch disk is full” error message and your scratch disk drive does show a good amount of free space, you may need to run a disk defragmentation utility.

Scratch Disk Errors When Cropping
If you are getting a “scratch disk full” error when attempting to crop an image, it’s likely that you inadvertently have size and resolution values entered in the options bar for the crop tool, or you entered values in the wrong units. For instance, entering dimensions of 1200 x 1600 when your units are set to inches instead of pixels is going to create a huge file that could trigger the scratch disk full message. The solution is to press clear in the options bar after selecting the crop tool but before dragging a crop selection.

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• Built-in HTML and CSS editors and validators as well as WYSIWYG
• In context CSS editing lets you see all the CSS styles that affect any area of a page
• Modify the display to fit your working style, with just the elements you need showing
• Includes Spry framework, Subversion integration, and even support to build Adobe AIR files
• Live view lets you check your dynamic and data driven elements right inside Dreamweaver

• Still only checks links on the same site – doesn’t validate external links
• Very complicated, can be intimidating to novices

• HTML and CSS editors work in the background to create designs in WYSIWYG mode, or directly in code view; all with valid code.
• Text editor with color coding for HTML, PHP, ASP and many other languages, plus tag completion.
• The site manager includes global search and replace across all site files as well as file transfer by many methods.
• Direct connections to Photoshop and Fireworks and the ability to do basic graphic edits right inside Dreamweaver.
• Wizards for many of the more complex actions including CSS, forms, frames, and tables.
• Lots of pre-built templates and snippets of code for use. Plus the CSS templates are really well done.
• Dreamweaver CS4 includes the ability to use HTML as a data source for Spry frameworks.
• Support for special characters and UTF-8 character sets to write effective non-English Web pages.
• Huge library of customizations available on the Exchange.
• There’s even a photo gallery maker.

Dreamweaver CS4 is still the editor of choice for freelancers and corporate Web designers alike, and this release just makes it more useful. As with CS3, Dreamweaver CS4 has strong integration with Flash, Photoshop, and Fireworks. But now there are some new elements as well:

• Photoshop smart objects
  These act just like images inside of Dreamweaver, but they are generated from the Photoshop original PSD. So any time you edit it in Photoshop, you can get it updated in Dreamweaver. And if you resize the image in Dreamweaver, you can get an optimized version for that size from the original.
• Subversion integration
  If you work on a team, you will want the ability to check-in and check-out files and have the strong version control that Subversion offers. And Dreamweaver CS4 integrates directly with Subversion.
• Extended Spry framework support
  If you weren’t sure how to use the Spry framework in CS3, now you’ll really like it in CS4. Now you can use existing HTML pages as your data sets and the framework even comes with some of the more popular uses pre-built for you.
• Author Adobe AIR applications
  Dreamweaver CS4 now supports writing Adobe AIR stand-alone applications that run on the desktop.

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Most digital cameras capture your pictures at a size large enough for quality printing. But when sending pictures by email, it’s important to reduce the size of your pictures so they transfer faster and are more viewable on the recipients screen. Windows Vista has an automated function that will resize, optimize, and email a group of pictures without altering your originals.

1. Open My Computer and navigate to the folder containing the pictures you wish to email.
2. Select the group of files that you wish to email. Use Shift or Ctrl to select additional files.
3. If the picture files are inside your Pictures folder, you should see an Email button at the top of the Window. Click this. If you do not have the Email button, right click and choose Send To > Mail Recipient. The Attach Files dialog box will appear.
4. Choose a size for your pictures. The small option is suitable for most purposes and will give you the best reduction in file size. If you know your recipient has a fast Internet connection you may want to choose Medium or Large.
5. Click Attach.
6. A status bar appears as Windows resizes the files, then a new message is opened in your default mail program with your pictures attached.
7. Windows inserts the file names into the subject field of the message. You will probably want to change this.
8. Fill in the recipients email address, add a personal message, and you’re ready to send.

1. Most images will be converted to the JPEG format for best compatibility.
2. Some files types (such as PSD) cannot be converted by Windows. You should convert these yourself before emailing them as they can be quite large.
3. Most Email providers have a maximum file size limit per message, usually around 10 MB. Try to limit the total size of all attachment to less than this when sending to recipients with a high speed connection.
4. If your recipient is on a dial-up internet connection, limit your total attachment size to 1-2 MB or less.

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