Free Photoshop Tools For Web Designers

Photoshop is still a favorite among a lot of web designers, and the right tools make it even more powerful as it already is. To help you boost productivity, save time, and, obviously, nerves, we have picked some valuable Photoshop resources, plugins, and scripts for you.

Some of them will speed up routine tasks so you can concentrate more on your actual work, others build a bridge between Photoshop and code so your design mockups can benefit from the best of both worlds. All resources are free to use.

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Judge orders Apple to build a backdoor OS for the FBI, CEO Tim Cook vows appeal

Apple has blasted a court order to provide the FBI with a de facto backdoor into its operating system and vowed to appeal the decision. How this case is decided will have a significant impact on privacy in the digital age.

Uber CEO delivers stinging attack to city regulators at TED

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick used the TED stage today to attack transport regulators for standing in the way of uberPOOL's mission to cut "congestion, pollution and parking" and reclaim city streets.

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Shopify scores with All-Star Weekend pop-ups

Ecommerce player's 'experiential activation' builds off last year's efforts in NYC

Creating Content Wireframes For Responsive Design

As I was leading my course in responsive web design between 2011 and 2012, I kept stumbling over the process of wireframing. My students tended to focus on the wireframe as being the end game in the planning process. They didn't understand that responsive design focuses on how users will access the content.

You can only imagine my relief when I happened to come across a video by Stephen Hay speaking at the Beyond the Desktop conference in 2012. There, in his talk on responsive design, he presented the concept of the content wireframe. This was a huge relief to me. I just knew there was a step before the process got real, but I couldn't articulate it. In this post, I'll describe the methods I use to get from content to responsive wireframe -- and how you can, too.

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Vulkan API reaches 1.0, claims broad API support, cross-OS compatibility

Vulkan 1.0 is finally out, with Khronos' first ever "hard release." The new API will be supported by most of the industry, including Qualcomm, Imagination Technologies, Intel, AMD, and Nvidia. The most noteworthy holdout? Apple.

Turn Your AMP Up To 11: Everything You Need To Know About Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages

In May of 2015, Facebook unveiled its new in-app publishing platform, Instant Articles. A month later, Apple declared that the old Newsstand experience (essentially a fancy folder full of news apps) would be replaced in iOS 9 with a brand new news-aggregation and discovery platform called Apple News.

Four months later, it was Google's turn to announce its own, somewhat belated but no less ambitious, plan to revolutionize mobile news consumption with an open-source web-based solution called Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP. In just a few months, we've seen the relative tranquility of mobile digital publishing erupt into yet another full-scale platform war as Facebook, Apple, and now Google compete for both the loyalty of publishers and the attention of readers.

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