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Follow up on Photoshop Alternatives for the Mac

PixelmatorWell I went ahead and got Pixelmator. You feel right at home if you are used to Photoshop, almost too much.

Many of the features you want and need are there just like old friends: Levels, Layers, Unsharp mask, layer masks, but many aren't: dodge, burn, cropping to exact sizes, curves. 

How to load a mysql database dump in to a new database

OK before I forget and have to look this up again: mysql -u username -p password dbname < filetorestorefrom.bck

Photoshop Alternatives on the Mac




Breaking news: another contender: Pixel. Adjustment Layers! Looks like a more polished version of Gimp but UI is still not mac native - but close. I could buy all of these and save hundreds over photoshop
OK - I'm too cheap to buy Photoshop CS3 and unwilling to install a cracked copy.

Drupal Dojo Lesson Theming Video

Here is a link to my capture of the Drupal Dojo lesson on theming giving on Sept. 8 2007

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Regex strip font tags

I struggle to learn to regular expressions so here is a public note to myself.

This reg ex:
<([font]+)\s+[^>]*>

will strip most font tags