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When you select a history state in the History palette and then change the image, all states below the active state are deleted/replaced. This stinks if you want to remove only a few things, but keep others.

This tip will speed up your Firefox significantly, but will mainly work for broadband users. To achieve this speed increase you need to alter certain settings of Firefox to speed up page requests and the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. To edit these preferences you need to open the configuration page of Firefox by typing the following into the address bar:
about:config

The first site in our new "Slick Web Sites" category is SoFake.com, a Web site design company. The entire site is done in flash, and at first is not immediately apparent how you navigate. Click the little white boxes across the bottom in order. When you get to the end, click a box in the middle.

One of the most creative uses of Flash I have seen in a long time.

Did you know that you can customize the Eyedropper tool in Adobe InDesign? Most people are familiar with Photoshop's Eyedropper tool to select colors in an image, and it works pretty much the same in InDesign, except you can pick up and apply more than just colors.

Double click the Eyedropper tool in InDesign for an extensive list of settings you can choose to apply or not apply when using the tool.

Most of the time when I work on a project I have my Finder window in List mode and the files are sorted by Date Modified. This works well most of the time, because the files in use always appear on the top of the list. However occasionally I need to find files by alphabet. For example I want the previous version of a file called artwork_v8. By pressing Shift-Tab I can immediately jump from the selected file to the file that's precedes it: artwork_v7. To go back I can press Tab.

You can snap your Adobe Photoshop palettes to the nearest screen edge by Shift-dragging or Shift-clicking on their titlebars. A quick way to clean up your palette mess!

The world's fifth strongest quake in a century hit southern Asia yesterday. Our hearts go out to the victims and their families.

There is a well hidden useful little utility in OS X that can help you find those special characters such as €,ç,®,†,œ or ‰. To activate the Keyboard Viewer you need to navigate System Preferences /International /Input Menu and activate the Keyboard Viewer from the list of keyboard layouts. Now, a small flag will appear in your right side of the menubar. Click to open it and select Show Keyboard Viewer.

We'd like to wish you Merry Xmas with a do it yourself CreativeBits Christmas card. Just click the card above to download the pdf file. Print it on any paper (the thicker the better). Put glue on the back and fold it in the middle. Cut out the tree and the ornaments. The thicker the paper the bigger the slots should be. Assemble the tree.