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This is a great tip of the day from Planet Photoshop. I couldn’t tell you the number of times it’s happened to me and I’ve been like, “What’s going on here!?!?”

This one gets more people because it’s a feature that acts like a bug. Has this ever happened to you? You’re working in Photoshop, you’re using the Brush tool (B), and everything seems fine. But a little later in your session, you get the Brush tool again, and it no longer displays the size of the currently selected brush tip. Instead, it displays a little crosshair cursor. So you go to the Preferences menu and choose Display & Cursors, and sure enough, you’ve got Normal Brush Tip chosen as your preference, but for some strange reason, it’s not showing your brush size; it’s showing that stupid crosshair. Here’s the problem: Check your Caps Lock key. It’s turned on, and turning it on changes your Brush cursor from displaying brush size to displaying the crosshair. This is actually a feature to be used when you need to see the precise center of your brush. The problem is it’s assigned to the Caps Lock key, so every time you turn on Caps Lock when you’re working with type, you just temporarily switched your Brush cursor (or any cursor for that matter). Does Adobe need to find a better key for this feature/bug? You betcha! Will it happen? Not as far as I know.

When I work on redesigns that use some content from the existing site, I’ll simply copy and paste the text in to my editor. Now, because I hand code that isn’t a big deal because I get plain text anyway. But if you are working in a WYSIWYG environment such as Dreamweaver, you’ll get the text and formatting.

So what do you do? One option is the Copy Plain Text extension for Firefox that allows you to copy text from the browser as plain text.

But what if you want to copy as HTML without having to go in to the source code?

This new Firefox Extension, Extended Copy Menu, will let you do just that. Extended Copy Menu provides you with the option to copy a selection as plain text or HTML. The options are added to your right-click context menu.

I’ve installed this extension not so much for the Plain Text option but for the Copy as HTML option. I don’t often want to copy specific HTML from a web page, but this little extension will come in handy when I do!

The past couple days the weather here has been much warmer and we’re finally out of the freeze. Today though, it’s a dreary and rainy day. So I head on over to Weather.com, as I do every day, to find out what the forecast is for the rest of the day.

What do I find? They’ve unveiled a new interactive weather map feature using Microsoft Virtual Earth.

The link above will take you to the map for my area to give you a quick look at it. I must say I do like it much better than the standard map, but I wish that the default mode would be set to Satellite.

You can control the transparency of the radar and also whether you see just the radar, just clouds, or both radar and clouds. There are some great controls and I’m liking the new interactive weather map.

What do you think?