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Make Your Web Pages Load Faster

October 1st, 2009 admin No comments

Recently I finished a web site for a friend of a friend. The project wasn’t too difficult, take his already made website and code it so he could use WordPress to edit the pages. Since my friend is also a designer and very knowledgeable about the web I left many of the pages with place a basic framework and place holder images so they could add more current information. Checking back to make sure the site was working OK as they are filling in new content I noticed a problem, the site is taking a long time to load the gallery. The culprit? Non-resized images used as thumbnails.

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Growl is Back!

October 1st, 2009 admin No comments

When I upgraded to OS X SnowLeopard on my Mac’s one important, frequently used piece of software died a tragic death, Growl.

For the uninitiated Growl is a notification service. Say you’re humming along in photoshop and illustrator working on a design for a client then the little Adium (another great app for the Mac) duck starts bouncing furiously. No need to interrupt your work flow. Just look in the upper corner of your screen. There Growl has caught the incoming message and is showing it in a unobtrusive window. After about a few seconds the notification window fades and your workflow hasn’t been interrupted.

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Categories: It's a Mac Mac Mac Mac World Tags: