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Mister Retro releases Permanent Press for Photoshop….give your projects that ”crappy printing” look on purpose

permpress 20080813 152639 Mister Retro releases Permanent Press for Photoshop....give your projects that crappy printing look on purposeI have been a fan of Mister Retro’s Machine Wash Photoshop Filters for a long while now. Today, the company released a new plug-in called Permanent Press.

With this new filter set you can simulate authentic looking rubber stamp, offset and letterpress printing effects with that vintage tactile look that previously could only be achieved by shoddy production work, under maintained machinery and disgruntled pressman. Now you can have the whole shebang for USD$99 and you’ll be set to make convincing looking antique comic books, advertising, packaging, matchbooks, etc.

Using the filters is simple: experiment! The interfaces for Mister Retro’s filters have always been one of the most pleasurable parts of using them. They encourage “play” and maintain the vintage theme that helps you transport yourself as well as your artwork to those olden days you are trying to emulate.

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Apple has updates for Tiger users too. Safari 3.1.2

safari 20080318 200824 Apple has updates for Tiger users too. Safari 3.1.2Apple doesn’t want Tiger users to feel left out of the day’s updating fun. They’ve released a special Safari 3.1.2 for Tiger update.

It’s sole purpose appears to be a WebKit update that prevents an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution while visiting a maliciously crafted website.

Whew! That’s a relief!

Now Mac OS X 10.4.11 users can visit all their favorite maliciously crafted websites again!

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Clean your keyboard without fear of typing something disasterous in the process

I love how you can take a program that has a seemingly detrimental effect, such as an application that intercepts and ignores keyboard activity–in effect disabling the keyboard–and give it a beneficial purpose and, suddenly, you have something quite clever.

Keyboard Cleaner is just that application. It doesn’t actually clean your keyboard, but when you want to clean your keyboard, it will prevent you from deleting, renaming or activating something that you hadn’t intended to. It shields your desktop and intercepts every keystroke you might accidentally make–except for Command-Q (you’ve got to be able to quit Keyboard Cleaner after all).

Keyboard Cleaner is a freeware Universal Binary.

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