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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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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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PicFindr: Free stock photo and image search

PicFindr searches the web for stock photography that is completely free to use commercially.

It is a rich internet application (RIA) that helps you search several stock image and photo community sites simultaneously.

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Parallax Backgrounds

Parallax Backgrounds - a multi–layered javascript experiment. You can make as many layers parallax as you desire, or as many as your browser can render fast enough to keep the effect alive.

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Prototype 1.6.0.2 Cheat Sheet

Prototype cheat sheet - a full reference to a bleeding edge 1.6.0.2.

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Download Prototype 1.6.0.2 cheat sheet

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Prototype 1.6.0.2 released

Prototype 1.6.0.2 released to address several compatibility and performance issues and to protect against a potential security issue for developers using Prototype outside of a web browser environment.

Download Prototype 1.6.0.2

1.6.0.2 Changelog

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