Author Archives: Mike Lavella

Metro IE10 Banning Flash

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With the release of Windows 8 supposedly coming sometime in 2012, Microsoft has announced that Flash along with all other plugins will be banned from the new “Metro Style IE” browser.  The Metro styled IE resembles what is currently seen on Windows 7 phones.  This browser will be as HTML-only as possible which Microsoft is hoping will provide long [...]

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Superfish

jQuery

Enabling users to intuitively navigate a web page is one of the most important aspects of designing a great site.  Users need to be able to find information quickly and with the help of the jQuery Superfish plugin, this can be easily achieved.  Superfish takes a purely CSS navigational method and adds Javascript for some [...]

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Nivo Slider

jQuery

After spending some time recently looking for a nice animated slide show, I came across the jQuery Nivo Slider.  The thing I really liked about this plug-in is the slick transitions which look very Flash-like.  This is an awesome alternative to using Flash since some mobile users on iPhones and iPad’s won’t be able to [...]

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Photoshop Channels

Photoshop CS5

Channels in Photoshop are arguably a more intrigal part of the software than Layers considering Channels were around before Layers.  Photoshop Channels store the color information of an image and when working in RGB mode, consist of three different Channel layers (Red, Green and Blue).  Photoshop supports fifty six Channels so additional Channels can obviosly [...]

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Shooting and Editing in Camera Raw

Photoshop CS5

With the prices of digital cameras becoming more affordable and with a lot of the mid range cameras being capable of shooting in Camera Raw, many photographers are taking the leap to this format.  When you set your digital camera to one of those predefined settings such as Portrait, Action Shot, Night Scene or Macro, [...]

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