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Decrease the size of a Photoshop PSD

  • 16 Feb 2012
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Some time ago I discovered a nice (and easy!) tip to decrease the size of a huge Photoshop .PSD file: you simply have to create a white layer on top of the other layers. This removes at least the file preview, which means that you won't the preview of your file the Finder or Explorer anymore.…

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Pro tip: the sans-serif font family

  • 22 Nov 2011
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If you're like me and spend a lot of time writing CSS, here is a tip that can save some characters. When we want to use the sans-serif fonts, we usually declare it like this : .something { font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; } This complete font-family tells to work with Helvetica first,…

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OS X Lion : the hidden Library

  • 26 Jul 2011
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If you're like me and recently installed OS X Lion, you may have noticed that the Library folder is no longer shown in the Finder. It is actually just hidden. Here a three easy tricks to get it back or to access it. Completely unhide the Library We do this thanks to the Terminal. Launch it and...…

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Speed up Adobe CS5 apps launch

  • 06 May 2011
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After I installed OS X Lion for testing purposes, I had a repeated dialog window asking me to "install Java for CS5ServiceManager to work" : each time I opened a session on my Mac and each time I launched an app from Adobe. Java ? I know Java is quite slow to launch so I had to disable this…

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My tweaked CSS Reset

  • 14 Apr 2011
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I’m not going to enter the debate about wether it’s good or not to use a CSS Reset, but I have to admit it’s often useful. If you’re like me and mostly use Eric Meyer’s one, you know he recently updated his code to version 2. This version brings –obviously– some improvements to…

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