18 Photoshop shortcuts. Note to self: use them.

Quick announcement: College Scholarships.org has a web design contest worth $5,000. U.S. students eligible only, deadline August 13th.

Oldie but goodie: The art of asking questions, or, how to help yourself by helping others help you.

YSlow is a Firefox extension by Yahoo that helps you figure out why your site is/might be slow. Very useful web development tool.

Free Wordpress themes by Ash Haque. Go Canada!

VC Investment Hits Highest Level Since 2001, or, now we are officially in a second boom in the IT sector.

The Open Source Web Design Toolbox: 100 resources and tools. Enough said.

Wordpress Garden: a gallery of beautiful sites powered by Wordpress.

Geek Ramblings offers 14+ Awesome Wordpress-powered sites. A good list of what you can do with a powerful CMS.

Facebook makes its first acquisition by buying Parakey, a web OS that is yet to launch. This is sure to jolt Facebook in a new league with the likes of Google, Amazon, and dare I say, Microsoft.

Is your site readable? Check it with this test of readability that includes a technical description on how these tests work.

A comparison of the code in Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla. Quick conclusions: Drupal has the most minimalist code, Wordpress has less comments in the code and Joomla’s big and bulky in both code and comments. (There’s a healthy discussion happening in the comments, too.)

Reduce email overload. Write emails with 5 sentences or less. Designer Mike Davidson explains.