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I was sent this link by George and after getting a bit tired of seeing Lightbox on every site, it was nice to see something better.

Here is a nice example of the script in action: http://www.krischerfotografie.de

And here is the actual script: http://vikjavev.no/highslide/ The script costs $30 unless you are using it for non-commercial sites. It seems quite adaptable and should become very popular this year.

Last year was spent wrapping up some projects, all of which were to go live in January. Early January saw the ‘official’ launch of Oak Valley Wine Estate, a project which lasted around 2 months. The site includes my ajax basket system and the client is licensing Seed from us (Article, News, Gallery and Chainbox modules).

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It seems genius professor Wang Xiaoyun of Beijing’s Tsinghua University and Shandong University of Technology, and her associates have successfully cracked the algorithm for SHA-1 encryption. This is the hash encryption commonly used by banks, e-commerce applications along with MD5. Read more about it here.