For a limited time, SitePoint is giving free copy of Photoshop ebook called “The Photoshop Anthology”. This book will cover different web design techniques by using Photoshop.

What you need to do is just provide your email address, and they will send you the download link. There are two format of ebook (high resolution and low resolution). I suggest that you download the high resolution version, although it may take longer time. But it is worth as you get higher quality of graphics and images.

I had use my yahoo mail in the email form, but unfortunately it take few hours before i can get the download link. You can direct download the ebook from sitepoint without register (Thanks labnol for sharing the link).

download high resolution version | download low resolution version

Source: labnol

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There were some companies/countries which try to block access to certain websites. I had cover a tip to bypass them. But unfortunately some people complain that it doesn’t work. Today i had go through this issue and found an interesting article which extend this topic and provide 2 more solutions.

1. GhostFox - GhostFox is based on Firefox and it provide a list of proxy for users to choose. Users can try different proxy until they successfully enter the site.

2. Use Google cache - Enter the URL of the site in Google and search. After that, visit the cache copy of the website. You can found the cache link beside the results’ URL:

Enjoy your browsing with these techniques!

Update Scanner is a Firefox plugin which will automatically scan and inform users about changes and update of a website. Users can add any websites to the monitor lists.

There are some websites which don’t provide RSS subscription, or you want to get update about the comment on article, but the author didn’t install “Subscribe To Comment” plugin. So, how are you going to get informed when there are changes on those website? View them everyday? Sure this is not a smart way.

Update Scanner can help users on this, by add a option to Firefox context menu. When you want to monitor changes on certain website, simply right click and choose “Scan page for updates” and you can set the scan frequency and threshold, so that you won’t get update too often.

If you would like to manually scan all websites in your list, you can go to Tools -> Update Scanner. A sidebar will appear and show you the list of websites that you monitor.

Tips: I would suggest that you set the Autoscan to a larger value, so that you can save your bandwidth for other usage.

download Update Scanner for Firefox

ReadAir is a desktop application which let Google Reader users read their feed on desktop. It is built with Adobe AIR, which means it is compatible with Windows, Linux, or Mac machine.

Google Reader is one of the best feed reader, but one thing is that you can’t bring it to your desktop. Thanks to the ReadAir team, they had successfully bring Google Reader to the desktop.

These are the features of ReadAir:

• Mac themed scrollbars and form elements
• Full synchronization with Google Reader Account
• Add/Remove/Manage tags
• Subscribe/Unsubscribe from feeds
• Search your feeds
• User preferences
• Resizable viewing pane
• Auto software update
• Auto login

Currently, ReadAir has Mac interface, but they will implement Windows XP/Vista themes in the future release.

Note: You need to install Adobe AIR before use this application.

download ReadAir

Source: Life Rocks 2.0

Piky Basket is a handy tool which will help us in copying/moving files in Windows. It is created to save our time when working with copying/moving files in Windows.

Piky Basket allow you to select files/folders and then place them into a “basket”, then proceed to select different files/folders. After you had finish selecting, you can then copy/move them all at once in the target location. If you want to place them individually to different locations, you can use the “Select” feature to manually select files/folders which you wan to drop.

Lets see how this application works.

Step 1

Right-click on any document and select Piky Basket -> Drop into the Basket. Repeat this action for few times with different documents.

Step 2

Go to different folder, right-click and choose Piky-Basket -> Copy All.

Step 3

Now, you had all documents being copied to your destination folder.

There are some other usage of Piky Basket, but i am not going to cover here. Download and try it yourself if you interested (it is a freeware!).

download Piky Basket

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