Adobe's implementation of multitouch features in Photoshop CS4 for Mac is very annoying… although multitouch 'pinch' zoom is useful, the multitouch rotation, which is extremely sensitive, isn't.
When you try to zoom (or even if you're accidentally touching the trackpad with two fingers) Photoshop often rotates the canvas by a few degrees or more — [...]

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Visa requirements for travelling to the US as a journalist are a constant source of discussion among Australian IT journos. I went straight to the source, The US Consulate Sydney, to get the myths debunked once and for all.
Aussie IT journos frequently toss up questions like:

[Big PR company] assures me I don't need a Visa [...]

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Ack, don't you hate that? You're working on the best blog post you've ever done in your life, then you hit the backspace key to correct a typo, and because you accidentally clicked outside of the text editor before hitting backspace, Firefox thinks you are a retarded Internet Explorer user trying to go back, and [...]

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