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Please welcome Bernardo…

So, which is better for the web designer: Photoshop or Fireworks?

This article has on hand several “experts” offering interesting comments on the pros/cons of Photoshop and Fireworks. If you have used both of these programs you probably already have your own opinion – but read on to see what others think (and maybe you will even change your mind)!

Photoshop vs. Fireworks

I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who was disappointed that Cardinal Ratzinger didn’t honor the memory of the previous two popes named John Paul by calling himself Pope George Ringo, but his endorsement of the mobile web is pretty impressive.

Just as impressive to me is this NY Times article on web design and the iPhone. If you’ve ever had to deal with help desk issues that were the result of a page design done by an artist with a humongous monitor (like a customer saying “I can’t see the whole page and it won’t let me scroll”) or if you just find the look of overly busy web pages to be tedious and un-user-friendly, you may enjoy this.

Also created by Aza Raskin is a site named Songza. Though I haven’t dug into the site, check out the nice mechanism for taking more than one action on a link.

Source: Signal vs. Noise

ContextFree.js & Algorithm Ink from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Please welcome Glen…

Though still in private beta, AT&T’s Pogo browser is one to keep an eye on.

Please welcome Ebe…

For those of you who (like me) feel that the established interface for commenting on blog posts only works when there are a few comments… and quickly begins to suck eggs when the comment threads get longer and begin to comment on each other… I’d like to suggest Disqus. I’m going to hold off on this site until I feel that it’s justified. Anyway, here’s a screen grab to give you a better idea of the interface design:

Please welcome Marc…