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Opera Dragonfly

Opera Dragonfly is Opera’s all-new set of developer tools, designed to give developers a lightweight-but-powerful application that provides effective mechanisms for web standards debugging and problem solving without slowing down the browser, and fits in nicely with the development workflow.

A detailed overview and screenshots at Dev.Opera.

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Qtpfsgui: open source HDR imaging

Qtpfsgui is an open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging. Available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

Supported HDR formats:

  • OpenEXR (extension: exr)
  • Radiance RGBE (extension: hdr)
  • Tiff formats: 16bit, 32bit (float) and LogLuv (extension: tiff)
  • Raw image formats (extension: various)
  • PFS native format (extension: pfs)

Details and Download

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DOMAssistant version 2.6 Released

DOMAssistant v2.6 - overall fastest CSS selector performance in the market.

There are a number of improvements and new goodies in the new 2.6 version, so please check out the release blog post in the DOMAssistant blog.

Download DOMAssistant and try it out. Write your own plugins and enhance your existing web sites!

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YUI 2.5.0 Released

Big upgrades to DataTable, new Layout Manager, Flickr-style multi-file Uploader, and more.

All the details on the official blog post  and more details here. It’s available for download here.

Check out a complex, multi-component example that uses Layout Manager as its basis and Yahoo Mail as inspiration here.

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Photoshop Brushes Master Collection

One iso file with almost 800 MB of Photoshop brushes, all of excellent quality and ready to be used.

The collection this divided in folders according to category: Abstract, Hi-res, Animals, Spiral, Human, Fractals, Grunge, Butterflies, Clouds, Objects, Paper, Hairs, Retro, Plants, Tatoo, Signals, …

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Download Torrent 

via Hernan Davos

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WordPress 2.3.3: an urgent security release

A flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that blog.

If you are interested only in the security fix, download the fixed version of xmlrpc.php and copy it over your existing xmlrpc.php. Otherwise, entire WordPress release with a few minor bugs fixed.

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Keeping Your Elements’ Kids in Line with Offspring

Issue 252 of A List Apart: Alex Bischoff introduces Offspring, a JavaScript library that brings the power of advanced CSS selectors to browsers that can’t quite handle the real thing.

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Shareaholic

Firefox add-on Shareaholic makes it easy for you to submit the web page you’re viewing to: digg, del.icio.us, facebook, friendfeed, google bookmarks, magnolia, mixx, reddit, simpy, stumbleupon, truemors, tumblr, twitter. You also have the option to e-mail the link directly to a friend.

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Shareaholic also lets you know how many times the web page you’re on has been dugg or saved to del.icio.us.

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PHP Speedy

PHP Speedy - Another script for merging and compressing CSS and JavaScript files. A script that you can install on your web server to automatically speed up the download time of your web pages.

Before PHP Speedy - 14 requests that took 4.44 seconds and After PHP Speedy - 4 requests that took 1.1 seconds:

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PHP Speedy automatically joined together all the appropriate files and compressed them, greatly reducing the load time of the page.  Author is also working on a PHP Speedy Wordpress plugin.

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SitePoint CSS Reference

SitePoint CSS Reference is now open to the public!

The reference contains a bunch of features that make it stand out from the pack — things like cross-browser compatibility charts and user feedback (ala the PHP manual) — to ensure that it is accurate, up to date, and best-practice.  Enjoy!

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