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In this tutorial we’ll learn how to paint snow onto lettering. We’ll use a small brush, zoom in close, and paint strategic areas in a bit of a random fashion until we achieve a snowy look. This tutorial is great for those looking for some quick Photoshop brush practice.

jPhotoGrid takes a simple list of images and captions and turns it into a grid of photos that can be explored and zoomed. Nearly all of the styling for this plugin is done in css. The trick is to layout the grid by floating the list items. The first thing the plugin will then do, is convert these all to absolutely positioned. This is what allows the plugin to zoom in on an individual image and then return it to its place.

That little green ‘zoom’ button at the top of windows in Mac OS X has always puzzled me; it almost never seems to do what I want it to, and so I generally leave it alone. There are, however, some great applications out there which strive to make window management quick, easy and predictable.