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» Tuesday News Stuff

Here’s what’s up this Tuesday:

• I’m going to start today by apologizing for the podcast being late. I had some archiving troubles on the podcast host site and thus I couldn’t upload any new episode (it is going to be fixed by tomorrow though). Look for a new episode coming tomorrow!
   
• Over at Copyblogger they ran a very interesting article called Are you Trustworthy today. It’s a pretty good article that talks about gaining your readers trust which is vital to any blogger who are looking to survive. A good read.
   
• WP Candy has a lot of different goodies and articles about WordPress and the latest today is about Frameworks, Child Themes, Filters and Hooks. It’s a pretty extensive article but it brings up a lot of good things and tips when designing for WordPress and how you can be helped using certain elements using the Thematic framework.
   
•  The iPhone has been out for a bit now and although there are quite a lot of applications in the business category of the AppStore, there are no big names released yet. Over at CIO.com they speculate in why.

Finally before we end for this news post I want to make a shout out to a buddy, Dave (known to some as PhotoshopDB). He and his wife had a very cute little baby this weekend! Congratulations guys!

» Walking through the new Lightroom 2 features!

 I promised y’all to post the video walkthrough here on the site as well as on the podcast where it was released yesterday. It’s the iPod/iPhone optimized version I’m posting up here as well.

» Friday Newsreel

The beauty of weekdays is that there is always so much going on that is always as fun to share!

• Earlier in the week we saw the release of Lightroom 2 and I then also told you about some great resources to learn all the new features and also posted a review of the missing FAQ book. Now the presets are rolling in. First out here are some really cool ones from the great guy Sean McCormack over at the Lightroom Blog. He’s released a collection of more than 70 graduated filters. The collection is available for only €5.00 from his site with samples there as well!
   
• More Lightroom 2 things. I’ve just finished the recording of my walkthrough and just editing it up to post it to the Creative Suite Tips & Tricks Podcast later. I’ll also be making it available here on the blog but then you have to wait until tomorrow. Podcast subscribers get the scoop first
   
• Are you blogging? Do you want to do it from a desktop application? If so you might be interested in this article from Smashing Magazine where they review 15 Desktop Blogging Tools.
   
• If you’re coming along for the Worldwide Photo Walk on August 23rd you might want to know that there have been a lot more cities added over the days, making it a 113 total at the moment! That’s some really cool numbers. I’m going to be leading the walk in Gothenburg, Sweden (the city where I live) along with my buddy Rickard Niklasson. Our walk details have been set and posted on the site now so check it out!

I think that wraps it up for today. I’ve got the video coming up later and I’ve got cool things planned for the entire next week as well (and the weekend) so see you then!

» Wednesday Goodies

 

I’m proud to announce that I’ll be rolling our a couple of interviews soon with some amazing artists in various medias who I really think you’ll all like. I’m just waiting for the interviews to be completed before I get them out, so expect it in a couple of days!

• Photomatix Pro 3 has just been released and is available as a free upgrade to current 2.x license holders, if you don’t have a license, they are available for $99. Updates in version three includes a much better interface and a lot of cool new features!
   
• Adobe has released their new version 1.0 of the Adobe Meda Player now featuring a lot of cool free content among others, from Lynda, Total Training, Kelby Training and more. What’s also cool is they have a new channel called Adobe TV as well!
   
• I was looking in my Feedburner statistics for this site’s feed and my podcast feed and I was stunned to see the podcast has over 700 subscribers! Thanks to everyone who has subscribed (although I doubt you are reading this since this site only has 12 subscribers :D) in just two weeks!
   
• I just finished writing a massive tutorial (over 14,000 characters) on how to create a simple website with only code which will be expanded on in future tutorials. I just posted it up for all NAPP members on the NAPP Member Forums to see what kind of reactions it gets and if it is all good, I’ll get it up here as well!

» Creative Suite Tips and Tricks Podcast Live Again!!

After a long while being practically dead because of bandwith troubles with it not being enough. Now after a long while of planning the podcast, it is now back online on its brand new and own website www.csttpodcast.com! It’s all new graphics, all new intro and all new episodes coming, but a good thing, if you were a previous subscriber all you need to do is to make sure to have the right podcast feed URL and use the correct link to iTunes. Or just do a search for Creative Suite Tips and Tricks on there!

Happy listening to the first released episode today!

» Wednesday Quickies

This week is being very hectic for me with little time on the evenings when I get home since I’m working long hours, but I’ll manage to get this update to you anyway containing the news so far. Myself I’m battling a cold and trying to work full time in the camera store. It’s amazing by the way, loads of cool gear and stuff and it is really fun doing adverts for stuff and selling stuff as well!  This is all why I haven’t posted a lot this week.

Change the blue dots in the Leopard dock!

So of course there are a program that can change the little blue icon in the dock that allows you to change it back to the old black triangles if you want. You can find the little program, that allows you to change them whenever you want, called Dock Delight here.

Creative Suite Tips & Tricks Podcast coming…

I had some server problems which caused this Sunday episode to be late. I will have it up tomorrow!

Camera Opinions

Tomorrow I will be posting a little larger post with some more stuff for you to read that will have some opinions on some different cameras that I’m around all day this week and some other cool stuff that I think is pretty cool Check back tomorrow for that.

That’s it for this quickie Wednesday update, have a great rest of the week! Oh and in case you were wondering about the Daily Quick-Tips, they are coming back starting on Monday!