A tutorial on how to use Photoshop to create a print ready business card. Also gives a basic introductions to color modes.

TechCrunch is reporting a chatter of possible imminent IPO of MySQL. They are also speculating that a successful MySQL IPO could lead to companies like Automattic going pubic.

Gimp 2.4 is out with a refreshed look, loads of new features, and a new website.

Looks like Google has reduced the PageRank for some of the popular blogs and websites. There are all kinds of suggestions as to why Google might have done this, but could this be an effort by Google to level the playing field?

Kenyan officials are finding it harder to deal with monkeys making lewd gestures at women!

Automatic, the company behind WordPress, has acquired Gravatar, a shared avatar service. Gravatar has been moved to WordPress servers, and now is 3 times faster, and more stable. Some of the feature plans include making all Gravatar premium services free, new API, integration with WordPress and more.

In, Pogue’s Imponderables, New York Times tech blogger David Pogue, shares his list of unanswered questions with his readers.

“Why can’t a digital S.L.R. camera record video?”, I have wondered about that one too.

Digital Inspiration has some details on Google removing blog feeds from its search index, starting with FeedBurner feeds. This should be good, since it’s annoying to click a link and end up on a RSS feed page.

Nobel Prize-winning DNA pioneer James Watson thinks African’s are inferior to Europeans when it comes to intelligence. He has been suspended from his US research lab for his racist comments. Why do intelligent men turn stupid when it comes to race?! Please give this man a Darwin Award to go with his Nobel Prize.

An image of a spinning dancer which will tells you instantly if you are right brained or left brained.

The results of the online web design survey conducted by A List Apart back in April is out. The survey was taken by close to 33,000 web professionals. So looks like web design and development is done mostly by well educated, young, blogging, white American men who make decent money. Makes sense, since most of the big software and web related things happen in the US.

Now, this is supposed to be a survey about web professionals, so at least put the results on a web page rather than a PDF file!

With Turkey’s parliament voting to allow Iraq incursion to fight northern Iraqi Kurdish rebels, looks like Iraq is slowly becoming a battle ground for everyone, with probably Iran and Syria entering the mix next.

A single page listing the over 300+ features in the upcoming Leopard release of Mac OS X. The new OS will be released October 26th.

5000 years of religious history of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism all compressed into 90 seconds.

If you feel you are married to your laptop, then here are 5 tips from 43 Folders to help free yourself from your “silicon ball and chain”.