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3D images

One of my readers Mike Morper, pointed out that there is a third dimension to be explored in Photoshop. He has been experimenting with creating anaglyphs (images that you see in 3D with red/blue glasses) in Photoshop. He has created an action and posted it on his site.

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Applications folder pop-up

Can't fit any more apps in your dock? For a quick access to all of your Applications, drag the Applications folder to the dock next to the Trash. Once the Applications folder icon is in your dock you can click and hold it or CTRL click it. A pop-up window with all your Applications will come up. It's scrollable by just moving the cursor to the top or bottom of the page. Obviously you can do the same with any other frequently used folders.

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Speed up Safari start-up

Safari is a great browser but as you might have experienced, it starts up slower and slower as time goes by. There is a simple reason for it. The little favicons associated with the web sites that you visit are stored in a folder, so that they can appear in your bookmark list and give you an easier overview of the titles. Once you have dozens of such little site icons, the start-up takes longer, because Safari has to load all the little icons.

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The missing plug-in

One of the forum members posted a burning question about Illustrator.

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CreativeBits Widget

If you have Konfabulator great! If not, download it, it's a great eye candy. There are hundreds of little useful and less useful little Widgets available.

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Dropbox / Fax new item notification

Do you ever want to be notified when someone drops a file in your Dropbox or when you receive a fax? Here is what you need to do.

Find the AppleScript folder in your Applications folder and run the script called Install Script Menu. This will put a little Applescript icon in your menu bar for easy access. Click the new Applescript icon in the menu bar and navigate to Folder Actions/Attach Script to Folder.

In the little window that pops-up, select add - new item alert.scpt and select your Dropbox.

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Tiger Dashboard

Tiger is far from being released but a site with Gadgets is already out.

Check out The Dashboarder.

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Block web page ads

Warning! Don't use this tip!
It will make your favorite free web sites to shut down or become pay sites.

For testing purposes only download stopADVbanners.css.
Credit: lashampoo.net.

To activate select Preferences/Advanced in Safari and set the downloaded file as a style sheet.

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