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There are so many Photoshop tutorial sites these days it's hard to keep track of them all — and now here's another one, except this one's different. Just launched by Enrique of Photoshop Roadmap fame, Photoshop Mosaic is like a little candy store. It's set up to show Photoshop resources in a visual way as a mosaic, and so you browse at the thumbnails and then reach out and grab whatever catches your attention. It's in an early stage right now and will have search and RSS feeds soon, but in the meantime you can find some nice little gems in the following categories: Tutorials, Brushes, Plugins, Patterns and Textures, and Photoshop Tags.

[via The Photoshop Blog]

You will probably find dozens, if not hundreds of tutorials on how to do this in Photoshop, but I’m going to show you how to do it in Illustrator (vector). The advantage? You can scale it up for a roadside billboard if you like. That’s the power of vector graphics. All you have to do [...]
[via BittBox]

Call them pipes, teqlos, dapps, modules, mashups or whatever else but fact is that recently we have seen a good number of new services that allow developers and users to build mini-apps and mashups that mix and re-mix data. Here we run through 5 applications that allow you to mix, rip and mash your data, looking at the data input, output, REST support, suggested use, and required skill level:

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