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Raena caught up with Simon Pascal Klein—designer, speaker and self-confessed rampant typophile—to talk about his upcoming appearance at Edge of the Web 2009.

There’s a lot of great desktop software available in the open-source world. In this article, Tim shows us a few cool tricks using GIMP, a free and open-source image editor.

Browser support for CSS3 is continually improving. In this article, Alex walks us through a few of the coolest CSS3 properties supported in the latest development release of Firefox (3.6 alpha).

In parts I and II, Andrew showed us how to build a slick-looking Flash frontend for Twitter and Flickr using the beta versions of Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder 4. In this final installment in the series he takes our application a step further by adding video functionality: allowing users to upload videos, and to take screenshots of their videos to post as images.

As a follow-up to his recent ebook, Build Your Own Firefox Extension, James has assembled this selection of useful tips, tricks, and hacks that he's collected from his experience with building extensions for Firefox.

Luke Stevens is a web designer who believes firmly that testing is the future of web design. Matt quizzed him on data driven design, A/B testing, and Google Web Optimizer.

Ben Galbraith, of Mozilla Labs, is speaking at Web Directions South '09 on The State of Browser Tools. Andrew had the opportunity to interview him about his Web Directions session, the Bespin project, and browser tools in general.

In his previous article, Andrew created a simple Twitter application using Adobe Flex. In this article he enhances that Flex application by adding the ability to upload photographs to the popular Flickr image hosting service, and then use bit.ly to integrate a shortened link to the photo in a tweet.

Great client service goes way beyond that practiced smile, it’s a far more holistic approach to just about everything you do. In this article Miles outlines 5 ways you can provide great service and attract loyal clients.

Let’s say you need an event where you can meet everyone, but still expect to see a fair few new faces; see more than two talks, but still want to have a say in what those talks are. You’re after active participation and interaction, where everyone feels encouraged to join in. What you need is an unconference. In this article Ben Balbo, organizer of BarCampMelbourne, shows how you can make your unconference unreal.