purge

Here it is, the first official entry in the Photoshop Top 40 series, "Reset and Purge."

I believe there's a joke in there somewhere, but I'll skip it for the moment to tell you two things: First, the image used in this video comes to us from photographer Galina Barskaya of image vendor Fotolia. To learn more, not to mention get a really great dekeOnline-only $18 for just $10 deal, check out fotolia.com/deke. Read more » 

dekePod Episode 014: At fourteen, dekePod is officially a teenager. So it's fitting that the topic of this episode takes us into the somewhat adult and potentially salacious territories of sovereignty and privacy. I'm not talking cookies or spyware. Your trusted commercial software--the stuff you pay hundreds of dollars for--may be tracking your every move.

It's like this: Despite the many warnings to the contrary, we tend to imagine that our computers acquiesce to our collective control. No software goes unchecked; no program reveals our misdeeds. And yet, these are exactly the sorts of treasonous acts that a certain group of programs--known as digital asset managers, or DAMs for short--are designed to perform on a daily basis. Read more »