Wednesday, June 10, 2009

PNG images appearing darker in IE8?

I've noticed this happening on a couple of sites. I'm not sure if it's really just an issue with the way Photoshop saves colour information, but no doubt it's useful to know.

See discussion on Boagworld

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Windows 7 compatibility

The transition from XP to Win7 has been great, so far. There are a couple of tools I still haven't installed, but everything I need for day to day work is up and running without issues. FWIW here's a list of apps that are running successfully on Windows 7:


  • Adobe Reader 9

  • Firefox 3

  • Textpad 5.2

  • Open Office 3.1

  • Skype 4.0

  • Photoshop CS2

  • ActivePerl 5.10

  • ActiveTcl 8.4.19

  • Collabnet Subversion Client 1.6.2

  • Tortoise SVN 1.6.2

  • InnoSetup 5.2.2

  • Koolmoves 6.2

  • WinMerge 2.12

  • VMware Workstation 6.5

  • Synergy 1.3.1

  • putty 0.54

  • XAMPP 1.7.1 which includes

    • Apache 2.2.11

    • MySQL 5.1.33

    • PHP 5.2.9

    • SQLite 2.8.15

    • OpenSSL 0.9.8i