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Blast from the past– make a cool custom CSS Mail signature

customsig 20080130 191247 Blast from the past   make a cool custom CSS Mail signatureWe’ve written a lot of tutorials over the years and it continues to amaze me how they find and refind audiences. A tutorial will often take months to attract any attention from other sites while others will explode with page views right from the first day. Often times a tutorial that was big buzz years ago will enjoy a resurgence. It is my hope that I might cause just such a resurgence in attention for a tutorial that caught my attention quite a while ago and is still a valuable resource to me to this day.

Almost two years ago Melvin Rivera wrote a tutorial entitled Custom CSS Signatures in Mail. The tutorial details a method by which your cool email signature can contain an image without that image being included as an attachment. I’m sure there are ways that you could employ Leopard’s new email Stationery to do this and more, but having just demonstrated Rivera’s technique to a friend, I think this article opens possibilities up to a wider audience that may not be as comfortable with customizing Mail’s Stationery.

Revisit Custom CSS Signatures in Mail.

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MacMerc.com gets widgetized… finally

253025925 08647f1d2b m MacMerc.com gets widgetized... finallyBack when Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” was first released, everyone with two bits of javascript to rub together got on the “make a widget for your website” bandwagon….but not us. That bandwagon has since parked itself in a loading zone and has been impounded and the band it once carried has broken up citing creative differences.

The widget craze has passed…but with promises of Dashcode in Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard,” the widget excitement is destined for a resurgence and that band and its wagon will soon be back in action on a reunion tour.

Time for us to finally get in on all this widgety fun with our own dashboard candy! Behold!! The MacMerc Search widget!!

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Our Comic Art Effect becomes an Action adventure

Due in no small part to the wildly popular Comic Life application for making comic pages out of your images, our own Comic Art Effect tutorial has enjoyed a bit of a resurgence.

Lance McCord found the tutorial via a link on LifeHacker and contacted me about producing a Photoshop Action to produce the effect. Well, I’m here to announce and make available just that…

The MacMerc.com Comic Art Effect Photoshop Action.

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The effect is slightly different than the one detailed in the written tutorial and had to be dumbed down for automation’s sake. But, I think you will agree, it still looks pretty slick. Download it and give it a shot. It should work with Adobe Photoshop 7 and above for Mac (or even PC). If you have any trouble drop me a line after reading the FAQs and the caveats of the original effect.

Note:Thanks also to summer2005 for the link to the original tutorial on digg.