The repetitive nature of Web site production is certainly not as fun as the initial creative design process. This is especially true on large sites, where most pages share the same look -- navigation bar, copyright, sidebars, and many other page elements remain identical across all of the pages of your site -- so much of the creative process is over. Fortunately, if you use Dreamweaver, a lot of the pain of building and maintaining a Web site can be eliminated by using Dreamweaver's timesaving Template tools.

It all began with a post at UNEASYsilence titled "Lies, Lies and Adobe Spies" which caught on to the fact that Adobe CS3 apps were calling out to a suspiciously-crafted IP address. As it turns out, the IP in question—192.168.112.2O7.net (note the capital O instead of a zero)—is not an IP at all, but rather a domain owned by statistics-tracking firm Omniture.

Just what is Adobe doing?

A set of Photoshop brushes made up of various light beams and rays of light. It includes beams like those from spotlights, sunlight like you would see coming through branches, lighthouse light beams, sunburst type effects (full circles as well as half and three quarters of the burst), and even some particles to add to your beams of light to make it look like floating dust. These are extremely high resolution, averaging about 2250 pixels in size.

Warning: large download size!

A site dedicated to all things Adobe Acrobat and PDF-related.

A small but handy resource for tips & tricks for the Mac and graphics applications. This is one of my personal favorites!