free/premium fonts AND better photoshop performance - article reviews

There are a lot of websites offering either free or paid fonts, but here are some, in this article - Finding Fonts: Free and Premium Resources - that would help you find that perfect little font in the massive swelling cyber sea... I have listed just the names/some names of these sites - all the credits go fuelyourcreativity for the listings and descriptions...

Finding Fonts: Free and Premium Resources

Free Fonts

• 40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design
• I’m Just Creative
• The League of Moveable Type
• Exlijbris Font Foundary
• Font Squirrel
• Urban Fonts
• etc
  

Premium Fonts

• 30 Fonts That All Designers Must Know & Should Own
• 13 typefaces for graphic designers
• 17 designers favorite fonts
• 80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design
• FontShop
• etc
  

Read the entire list, with samples and explanation, online here.

Photoshop: we all work with this great paid tool, either with an older or a newer version of it. Below are 10 Simple Steps to Better Photoshop Performance by smashingmagazine.

10 Simple Steps to Better Photoshop Performance

1. Adjust The Number Of History States
2. How Many Cache Levels Do You Need?
3. Keep An Eye On Your Memory Usage(Efficient Use of Memory)
4. Use Proper Scratch Disks
5. Turn Font Preview Off
6. Use Thumbnails In Your Palettes
7. Learn How To Use Purge
8. Set Maximize PSD And PSB File Compatibility to Always or Ask
9. Don’t clutter your Photoshop
10. Reset Default Settings
    

To view more details about these tips of better the Photoshop performance, read the article online - 10 Simple Steps to Better Photoshop Performance.

jQuery tutorials and plugins - lots and lots of helpful sites - article review

In the article entitled "25 jQuery Image Gallery/Slider Tutorials and Plugins" there are lots of useful resources for the ones that want to know how to have an image gallery/slider on the site, and use jQuery for this. Here are the main points:

25 jQuery Image Gallery/Slider Tutorials and Plugins

jQuery Image Gallery/Slider Tutorials:

• Create an Image Rotator with Description (CSS/jQuery)
• jQuery Image Gallery/News Slider with Caption
• Full Screen Image Gallery Using jQuery and Flickr
• Create a Slick and Accessible Slideshow Using jQuery
• Fancy Thumbnail Hover Effect with jQuery
• Simple jQuery Image Slideshow with Semi Transparent Caption
• Slider Gallery
• Building a jQuery Image Scroller
• Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery
• Create Beautiful jQuery Slider
• How to: Create a Fancy Image Gallery with jQuery
• Coda Slider Effect

jQuery Image Gallery/Slider Plugins:

• Supersized; Galleria; Gallery View; jQuery lightBox; Gallerific; Easy Slider 1.5;
• Pikachoose; S3 Slider – jQuery Image Gallery; Sliding Image Gallery; Flickr Gallery;
• Simple Controls Image Gallery; Popeye; Smooth Div Scroll.

Again, to read more explanations about each of these above, visit the 25 jQuery Image Gallery/Slider Tutorials and Plugins article via vandelay design.