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Bust out a quicky call to the language translation web service, thanks to translation web service at restlessDelusions.

Tons of capabilities for mere mortals comes your way with Photoshop Elements 4.0. Catch the whole story over on DPR. Don’t forget this site, dedicated to Elements!  

Read the glowing article.  

Tivo is losing it! Long term contracts with early out penalties? Tivo-to-Go for Windoze only?? No HMO for OS X??? Well, at least the community has fixed the HMO on OS X problem — get ‘er done here (details if you’re interested)…

Here are a couple of CMS options from the Apache project. First there’s Leyna, an XML-oriented approach. daisy is another cool option that provides for your CMS needs in a flatter, less hierarchical model.    

Guardian Unlimited has an interesting read called the Coffee Trail about … coffee. It discusses everything from the coffee business machine, fair trade, the disparity between miserably poor/affluent, and all the where stuff.

If you’re still doing page layout with HTML tables, realize you’re the problem, not the solution to accessibility. Here are some excellent references on CSS. Why? This is the biggest eye opener ever… Learn from master, here, here, here, here, and here CSS: The One True Layout Ready for something practical? Reskin my WordPress blog [...]

Was having video feed issues with Patriot Media today and asked (again) about the status on their dual-tuner availability. Finally, they are offering the upgrade for $14/month. Remember, you’re basically doubling your capability, so who’s to complain. Since the existing single-tuner box is a Moto, I’m assuming the new box is the DCT6412 (remote docs). [...]

Remember how cool it was when you first got your hands on 100s of channels of TV content? Then the problem became how to watch it all. Tivo stepped in and fixed that by allowing you to "time shift" your favorite shows. That means you can have Tivo look for and record your favorite shows [...]

You’re probably getting ready to throw those ear buds that came with your iPod (I want a 60G nano) out the window — there are lots of replacement options… Everyone is raving about the Sennheiser PX 100 (see what bumping up in their line gives you too). They’re less than $40 USD and actually sound [...]