Fireworks Autoshapes

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Nathan Pitman has pointed out two really nice and useful Fireworks Autoshapes:

Autoshapes is a relatively new feature in Fireworks that allows you to create complex shapes just as easily as you would create simple shapes like circles or rectangles.

Fireworks from Macromedia has rapidly become one of the most popular and indispensable tools for rapid prototyping–among many other things–because of its flexibility and power. Autoshapes is a terrific addition to what was already a very strong suite of tools contained within Fireworks and if you haven’t yet dived into it Pittman’s tutorial would be a terrific place to start.

Mac OS X CHM File Viewer

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Chmox is a OSX viewer for Windows Compiled HTML Help (CHM) files viewer. If you develop using PHP, one of the most useful references you can get your hands on is the CHM file from the php.net site. Most PHP developers will be familiar with this tool already, bu t just in case you aren’t, here is your reminder. Chmox lets you view this file, and many others on your Mac.

Some Features provided by HTML Help are:

  • Full tree like TOC menu of pages, with even the smallest parts included
  • Alpabetical index of all pages [with quick access to functions]
  • Full text search (see the chapter about FTS in the CHM)
  • Personal favourites listing