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Great article from Bjango, as always.

Photoshop CS6 introduced an exceptionally well hidden option that changes how text is rendered. Lurking in the darkest, deepest corner of Photoshop CS6 is checkbox and a text field that control the appearance of text antialiasing. They can be found by opening Color Settings under the Edit menu, then by clicking More Options.

Yeoman - a robust and opinionated client-side stack, comprised of tools and frameworks that can help developers quickly build beautiful web applications.

The Source Filmmaker (SFM) is the movie-making tool built and used by us here at Valve to make movies inside the Source game engine. Because the SFM uses the same assets as the game, anything that exists in the game can be used in the movie, and vice versa. By utilizing the hardware rendering power of a modern gaming PC, the SFM allows storytellers to work in a what-you-see-is-what-you-get environment so they can iterate in the context of what it will feel like for the final audience.

Nexus Q may not be the perfect streaming audio sphere, but it’s a fascinating first step in Google’s bid to become a hardware company. And it’s sure to get people talking.

Advanced lossy compression for PNG images that preserves full alpha transparency.

See also JPEGmini.

Creating patterns in previous versions of Illustrator has always given me a bit of headache … In version CS6, Adobe made it very easy, and flexible. There are a lot of options you can try out, which makes this feature very powerful. It’s definitely my favorite new feature.

A fun store for people to sell their hardware creations.

The move reflects a growing trend in web design these days: What you’re searching for isn’t nearly as important as what tastemakers and friends have already found.

Brackets is an open-source editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The project was created and is maintained by Adobe, and is released under an MIT License.

Check out this video, it’s awesome.

Prose is a web-based interface for managing text-based content in your GitHub repositories. Use it to create, edit, and delete files, and save your changes directly to GitHub.

Wait, it’s exactly the tool I’ve been waiting for.

Symbolsets are semantic symbol fonts. They work in modern browsers and anywhere OpenType features are supported.

Well designed glyphs, made for the web. Pre-orders will go out June 29t.

The digital version of Helvetica that everyone knows and uses today is quite different from the typeface’s pre-digital design from 1957. Originally released as Neue Haas Grotesk, many of the features that made it a Modernist favorite have been lost in translation over the years from one typesetting technology to the next.

See what makes Neue Haas Grotesk unique.

Someone recently discovered a nice GUI touch in the upcoming iPhone operating system (iOS6), metallic button reflections change as you tilt the device. Can it be done on the browser with just CSS? Of course it can, with a pinch of JS.