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‘Press It’ Bookmarklet in WordPress 2.6 Makes Tumblelogging Easy

Much to everyone’s surprise, Automattic announced WordPress 2.6 today.

WordPress 2.6 has copied borrowed the best feature of Tumblr - their quick post bookmarklet that auto-detects photos and videos on a web page and enables you to quickly repost these items on your own WordPress blog.

The other useful features in WordPress 2.6 are Image captions, Google Gears support and Wikipedia style document revisions which come quite handy if you are working with multiple authors on the same post or want to revert to a previous version.

Matt has a detailed list of changes made in WordPress 2.6 though there aren’t any bug fixes or security related updates so am not sure if this qualifies as a must-have upgrade. You can download WordPress 2.6 here.

Via Digital Inspiration

Yahoo! Lets You "Build Your Own Search Service"

Yahoo! has just unveiled the next phase in their plan to spur search innovation by providing search-related resources to developers. The Yahoo! Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS) enables developers to access Yahoo! search results, combine them with other sources, rerank them, and define their appearance. Yahoo! says they are making BOSS available in attempt to spur innovation in the search space and disrupt the market. They point out that unlike with other web companies, a search startup has many obstacles: from cost (it takes a lot of machines to process all the web’s data) to expertise (some of the world’s smartest PhDs work at the major search engines) to historical data (which search companies can only get a hold of by that old-fashioned method of waiting).

Via Searchengineland

18 of the Best Photoshop Videos Online

Photoshop’s all about the visuals, so it’s no surprise that it makes for some good videos. Today PSDTUTS is launching it’s video addition to the sidebar and video channel at Vimeo, so what better time to take a look at some of the great PSD Videos around the web! But be warned, surfing these video sites is a great way to kill your productivity!

Via Psdtuts