Xyle scope now free

Cultured Code is now offering Xyle scope for free. Not sure when this happened. Used to cost $20. I’m guessing this choice has a lot to do with the great success of Things. I wrote about Xyle scope in Jan. 2008. My conclusion then: I almost bought this application but, in the end, I decided [...]

Get a $30 CSS book for free

For the next 14 days, you can download The Art & Science Of CSS (a $29.95 value) for free. There are two ways to get it: – follow @sitepointdotcom on Twitter – visit twitaway.com Here’s an excerpt from the email I just received from SitePoint.com: Freebies like this are few and far between, so help [...]

MacRabbit Espresso

Grab a cup of coffee. We already have Bean, the excellent and free rich text editor. Soon, we will have Espresso from MacRabbit, creator of the best-in-class CSS editor, CSSEdit. Reading through the features, it looks like Espresso will be a hybrid application that combines many of the coding-friendly features of BBEdit or TextMate with [...]

Free (as in beer) PhotoShop book: 3 days only

Get your copy of The PhotoShop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks, Techniques by Corrie Hafley, offered for free by 99Designs for the next three days only. This 278-page book promotion is available until June 12, 2008 via sitepoint.com. From sitepoint: It’s brimming with tried and tested real-world Photoshop solutions that will add impact to [...]

On Things, RapidWeaver

1. Things integration, tagging Cultured Code’s Things is slowly and methodically nearing release — something I suspect many people eagerly await (or not, considering we now get to use the Beta for free!). Last saturday, Cultured Code released a small version update with a big new feature: system-wide To Do integration. Enter a To Do [...]

Scanner Art

Here’s a project idea for the long weekend. Have you heard of scanner art? The basic idea is this: you scan things and you try to make something something artistic with it. Is it art? Is it really photography? Some say yes, some say no. I say, ‘Who cares?’ I have found that I can [...]