Week 1 of my favorite links from around the web. Be sure to check them out.

1. The Ultimate Collection Of Photoshop Custom Shapes | Smashing Magazine

2. The Simple DVD Ripper for Macs | Ripit

3. Dynamic Content Gallery V2 | Studiograsshopper

4. Freebie – Grunge Corners and Edges Photoshop Brush Pack | Arbenting

5. Slickr Gallery (AJAX Flickr plugin for WordPress) | stimuli.ca

6. Free Font – FF MT | Creattica Daily

7. Customizable, User-Submitted, Helpful Web Design and Web Development Resources | CorkDump

8. 60 Impressive Free High Resolution Textures and Backgrounds | Photoshoproadmap

9. How to Setup a Dedicated Web Server for Free | NETTUTS

10. Free CSS Drop-Down Menu Framework | LWIS.NET

Written and posted by on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 by David Walsh

Internet Explorer 6, released on August 27, 2001, was a package of problems right from the start. Within a year of release, Microsoft silently declared that IE6 would not make enough money for them to support as closely as a browser should supported. The result has been numerous security problems, unfixed browser bugs, and a daily migraine for developers. Six years later, IE6 is still a thorn in the side of developers and it’s been perfectly clear that IE6, for the following reasons, must die.

Lack of PNG Transparency Support

I’m a huge fan on PNG images. Though their file sizes can be larger than GIF’s and JPG’s, they are generally clean, crisp graphics. Internet Explorer 6 does not support transparency in PNG images, rather it displays and ugly gray color as transparency’s replacement. Firefox, IE7, Opera, and Safari all support PNG transparency but IE6 clearly never will and that’s holding back businesses from using PNGs on their website. (more…)