Wow, HTML 5 had a brilliant time at Google IO last week. Here’s a recap of some of the top news coming from the event regarding the technology.

Here’s a quick tip for Photoshop that I have came across and I find incredibly useful.

When I’m mixing photos for Project 365 in Photoshop, I often find myself wanting to take a snapshot of my current edit as a single layer, for example to try a transform on the whole image.

You can very quickly and easily do this with two shortcuts that I find invaluable.

Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Shift+N creates a new layer, then Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E takes a snapshot of all the current layers and pastes it onto the new layer you just created.

I usually select the top layer so that this then appears above all the other layers and you can transform and play around with it as much as you like without trashing all your other layers.

As some of you may or may not know (if you’re on my Twitter its highly likely you do), I spent 2 months and a bit of this summer working at a technology startup called Huddle in London.

Huddle’s product is an online collaboration and document sharing website with an emphasis on social working, and could be described as a cool cross between the best of Sharepoint and Facebook, after being cleaned up and made to look lovely. You can check out their site at

During my time developing Adobe Air applications, I have come across numerous online resources for support, and I have listed them here for reference.

Air Developer Center – useful starting point on the Adobe site