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For the last few days I have been working on my site’s new design, and today it’s finally online. With the new design comes the good news, now AdesGuestbook and eBook Tutorials are both free, feel free to download your copy.

During this time I was not really able to update the blog, after this posts will resume as usual.

Datapipe, Rackspace and Tiscali are the Top 3 Most Reliable Hosters in August 2005. via netcraft

After years of training customers to trust only SSL-enabled sites, banks are shifting their online banking logins to the unencrypted home pages of their websites. Although the data is encrypted once the user hits the “Sign In” button, the practice runs counter to years of customer conditioning, as well as the goals of the browser makers. Three of the five largest U.S. banks now display login forms on non-SSL home pages, including Bank of America, Wachovia and Chase, as well as financial services giant American Express.

Web sites are generally reluctant to use “https” on busy home pages, since SSL involves a tradeoff: improved security, but slower response time. Consumers, meanwhile, prefer easy to-remember URLs for their online banking. In placing login screens on non-SSL home pages, banks are trying to have it both ways: fast page loading without the SSL-related performance hit. The login form’s “action” URL points to an SSL-enabled https URL. read full article

Nothing interesting seems to be going at the moment, but hopefully it will be interesting in the future. They could improve the look and feel of the blog as well, after all they are Adobe ;) blogs.adobe.com

RICHMOND, Va. - A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far as to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line.

People threw themselves forward, screaming and pushing each other. A little girl’s stroller was crushed in the stampede. Witnesses said an elderly man was thrown to the pavement, and someone in a car tried to drive his way through the crowd. via msnbc

Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion. It took many designers including myself by surprise. I don’t know what will happen to two very distinct product families under one roof after this. Adobe with Photoshop in one hand and Flash with Dreamweaver on the other.