A prototyping tool from Adobe for designing responsive sites, with built-in support for Typekit, that works in tandem with Photoshop and has native web controls.
Yeah, I’m feeling a little breathless right now…
[Via Mr Zeldman]
I went from Firefox to Chrome/Chromium full-time a couple of years ago because of Chrome’s built-in sync feature. And then I started using Chrome on my Android, which was fabulously fast and in sync, too. The end-user in me was happy.
As part of my “Can I Live Without Google Products?” experiment which I did a few weeks ago, I switched over to Firefox from Chrome for a full 2 weeks. Then I realised Firefox now had sync — which I could run on my own server (if I were so inclined).
- Edit software source list:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list - Add a new repository:
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable main - Add the repository verification:
wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add - - Update software cache:
sudo apt-get update - Install Google Chrome:
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-beta
(I prefer the beta version but, depending on your needs, you can always replace-betawith-unstableor-stable.)
About two weeks ago, I had a problem — I had a Photoshop CS5 file with a country name in a text layer and I needed to export it to a PNG format for about a hundred or so country names.
I could have opened the Photoshop file, copy-pasted the new country name from a spreadsheet and into Photoshop and exported to PNG for each country. It felt like a lot of work and I really wanted to go home early that day. A bit of Googling led me to Adobe Photoshop Scripting. I started reading up and started fumbling stupidly coding quickly in Javascript. (I could have used AppleScript on a Mac or VBScript on Windows, but I really don’t know how to.)
It took me about 30 minutes to code exactly what I needed. It probably would have taken me less time to do it the manual way, but this felt more exciting, novel and seemingly productive.
Sample File and Example Code
I’ve uploaded a sample Photoshop and Javascript file to my Dropbox if anyone ever needs a starting point for scripting in Photoshop. The scripting guides and references from Adobe are, of course, absolutely necessary for you to tweak things to your needs.
How To Use It
Download the two files to your machine.
- Edit the JS file to put the correct path for your target folder in the
exportFilevariable. (On a Mac, I ran Terminal and usedpwdto get my path.) - Open the PSD (Photoshop Document) file and trigger the script in Photoshop via
File > Scripts > Browse. It should export a whole bunch of PNG files into your target folder.
If anyone finds this helpful in anyway, then great. If this doesn’t work on your computer or causes a thermonuclear explosion, I can’t help you. Maybe someone on Stack Overflow can.
- pointer arithmetician
- problemist
- optimizationeer
- abstractionist
- algorithmist
- encryptioneer
- languagician
- recursionist
- infinite looper
- object orienter
- language scriptician
- thread commander
- multicore general
- concurrencician
- parallelista
- polygoneer
- regular expressionist
- data baseist
- assemblician
- formalisationist
- daemonologist
The nerdy materialistic consumerist in me wishes for a clock like this. But the cheap DIY guy in me will just stick to the stripped out clock kit on my wall.
There’s a Flickr group called Buoyant dedicated just to photographs of buoys. Gotta love the interwebs…
[Via Flickr Blog]
Be still, my beating heart… be still.
What would we all do without Facebook’s proactive and user-centered approach to security? They’re so thoughtful, they created a new password for me, put it into a zip file and sent it to me in a private one-to-one email. They go out of the way to help their users and yet, there are some people who speak poorly of Facebook and their boss dude. And these Facebook guys must work incredibly hard. If you look carefully, this email was sent out in 2009 and I just got it yesterday. When you have tens of millions of users, emails are going to take some time to send out.
The only weird thing about the email I got was when I replied to thank Facebook for their help and to ask why my new password slowed down my computer, the reply address was not a Facebook email but some strange swordingnq825@talksecurity.com.
Their password and security team must be some standalone entity or something.
I don’t usually put photographs on my refrigerator door. But if I do, I’d be sure to use Photoshop Fridge Magnets from Photojojo.