Linux for Designers

I updated my Linux-Mac-Windows CSS font matching list to support Redhat's Liberation fonts. Now i have to add this to CSSdev for Gimp too.

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After we getting Firefox 3, Opera 9.5, Safari 3.1.x and in far future we will get Internet Explorer 8 a lot of tests poped up. So check out all the tests about Acid3, JavaScript performance and various speed tests:
http://www.zimbrablog.com/blog/archives/2008/06/and-the-winner-is.html
http://www.zdnet.de/news/software/0,39023144,39192354,00.htm
http://lifehacker.com/396048/speed-testing-the-latest-web-browsers
http://webstandard.kulando.de/post/2008/06/23/ladezeiten-von-firefox-3-ie7-safari-3.1.2-und-opera-9.5-im-test
http://webstandard.kulando.de/post/2008/06/25/firefox-3-safari-3.1.2-opera-9.5-und-co.-im-acid3-test

Whoo-hoo Gimp 2.5.1 rocks and is a real good graphical source for CSSdev. Here is a little sneak preview of the layered image in Gimp 2.5.1 and the output off CSSdev 0.5 (just CSS and XHTML, noch graphics, no joke, no recoding after):

Those haven't Gimp 2.5.x running yet grab a Debian/ Ubuntu Deb archive of Gimp 2.5.0 or Gimp 2.5.1 now.

This is a small bugfix release of CSSdev for GIMP, clipping works now perfect and non-webfonts as the default font gets alternative font faces too.
After getting a Debian/ Ubuntu Deb archive of Gimp 2.5.0 and an update to Gimp 2.5.1 i figured out new possibilities in the upcoming Gimp version. So in future i can support text layers well - that will make CSSdev much more awesome

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Another inspiring part of Smashing Magazine: Hand-Drawing Style In Modern Web Design. The first part of it can be found here.
For those that stayed more on layouts and print check out the article Beautiful Brochures and Booklets.

...is today! 6.5 milliones of downloads so far and it can be more with your help! Go on help to start a world record now - download your copy of Firefox 3!

Today Opera released Opera 9.5. This version includes a new rendering engine, a preview of the developer tool Dragon Fly, a lot of supported CSS3 features and it allows blogging of content.
On 17th of June Firefox 3 final will hit the streets, this day you could help starting the worldwide download record.

The Mozilla project published the 2nd release candidate of Firefox 3.0. Since the RC1 (that will available in Hardy soon) there are just bugfixes and improvements. So if no new errors will appear, this version could become the final. Once it is published you can help starting a worldwide download record.
If you didn't discovered all goodies of Firefox 3 yet then it's time for read more about the "Top 10 Firefox 3 Features".
Besides the announcement of the Mozilla project Opera 9.5 reaches the beta 2 state and will be available as a final soon too. The beta 1 of the Internet Explorer 8 is freely available and Microsoft announced the beta 2 for August this year.

When i start developing a new website design for our customers at first i make a little tour to see what's going on at the lazy web. To getting some cool input i visit:
* Smashing Magazine
* CSS Mania
* Surfstation
* K10K
* Designpicks

...and of course using Google to see how others are presented at the web acting in the same business as th customer.
What are your inspirational sources? Tell me

Wine 1.0 RC1 is now available for download. After 15 years of development it is planed to publish Wine on the 6th of June as final. Help the Wine project finding bugs and getting 1.0 stable.
Here is a short howto:

* Make sure Wine 1.0 RC1 and your favorite Windows app are installed
* Open a terminal and start your application with

env WINEPREFIX="~/.wine" wine "C:\Path\To\Your\app.exe"

* Check the output in the terminal and copy it per action via Ctrl+C into a text editor
(an example http://www.neeneenee.de/wine_photoline1451.txt)
* Go to the Wine bugtracker create a account or login
* First make sure the bug isn't submited yet
* If the bug exist create a comment and append a link to your textfile of the output

If you do not have any Wine experience check out my post "Getting your Windows app running on Linux in a easy way". You can tweak the Wine GUI too to give it a more Ubuntu styled look.