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David Leggett shares 5 Pixel Popping Techniques for Adobe Photoshop. Among them the 2 pixel divide effect, the pixel shadow and the shadow highlight.

The most memory efficient browser is Firefox 3.0. Not only trumps its older version, but every other popular offering on Windows. Sam Allen's findings.

Everyday Icons offers over 30 sets of beautiful patterns and icons for free download. Some of them are just sexy.

Finetuna is a free service that allows you to upload an image, comment on it and share it with clients and co-workers. Firefox-extension is available as well. Useful.

Designers can design everything. For instance, packing tapes. Examples of pretty and clever packing tapes designs.

Euro 2008 icons is a collection of transparent .png-icons of each country up to resolution 600×600px. Germany plays in a semi-final.

Tiles Generator generates tiles, patterns and stripes on the fly.

Envelope icon set features a variety of different envelopes and folders of different sizes. Available only as .eps.

Hyphenator is a Javascript that implements sophisticated, automatic, client-side hyphenation. It inserts soft hyphens using an algorithm commonly known from LaTeX and Openoffice. Useful.

To comfort your visitors with a pleasing and intuitive composition use the Golden Ratio Calculator for your designs. More on this topic.