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I came upon this link while I was browsing today. It seems that Adobe have released the Photoshop CS3 beta in December, about a month ago.

The link is to a page containing a video clips with CS3 Beta preview, produced by Lynda.com and offered for free.

ENJOY

This is the final 1.0 version of the AJAX framework, formerly known as Atlas, that Microsoft has developed for using with ASP.NET.

For those of you unfamiliar with ASP.NET AJAX project, here is a brief explanation, made by Scott Guthrie, the main architect of ASP.NET and a dozen of other technologies delivered by Microsoft:

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 delivers a rich client-side AJAX library that provides cross platform, cross browser support for a core JavaScript type-system, JSON-based network serialization stack, JavaScript component/control model, as well as common client JavaScript helper classes.  ASP.NET AJAX also delivers a rich server-side library that integrates AJAX functionality within ASP.NET, and enables developers to easily AJAX-enable existing ASP.NET 2.0 sites with minimal effort. 

ASP.NET AJAX is available for free, and can be used with ASP.NET 2.0 and VS 2005.  It is a fully supported Microsoft product, and is backed by a standard 10 year Microsoft support license (with Microsoft Product Support available via phone 24 hours a day x 7 days a week). 

And this is not all! In addition Microsoft has released a toolkit of over 30 free ASP.NET AJAX enabled controls under the name ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. Check out a live examples published here. 

All this is delivered for free from Microsoft! Here are the links for downloading:

ASP.NET AJAX Extensions 1.0
ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

And this is the official ASP.NET AJAX website: link

We manually checked all the links in the Photosop tutorials section of DaTutorials. Actually it was all acomplished by George, the other developer in our team. We regularly make a check and remove the broken links, so we keep our database clean and with good links.

A new update from DaTutorials HQ We moved to a new web host to get more web space, more bandwidth and better support.

Our previous hosting company was Layered Technologies. A good hosting service but very basic support and almost 100% self-managed. And the price was way too high for a non-commercial website like DaTutorials.

Our new host is LunarPages. I bet most of you have heard of it as they have a very good reputation at WebHostingTalk - the biggest web hosting related community. We’ve also signed for the affiliate program of LunarPages which is a good deal and we hope to get some additional income from it and use it to further develop DaTutorials.

On my side the web site is loading prety fast, no complaints by me However I would like to hear some comments from you guys, is it fast on your side too?

Oooops, it also seems that this is my first post this year, sooo … HAPPY NEW YEAR AND MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU