Useful Links: Being Thankful, Fireworks CS4, protect your Mac

15 Things Every Web Developer Should Be Thankful For lists some great things to be thankful for. You can suggest more objects of your gratitude if the list isn’t inclusive enough for you.

Way back in 2005 I published a rant here called Why colleges should stop teaching Fireworks as a primary web design tool. Three years and a lot of Fireworks version releases since then, it appears that Fireworks CS4 is capable of creating web standards based designs. Matt Stow wrote Creating standards-compliant web designs with Fireworks CS4 at the Adobe Developer Center to walk you through the new CSS export feature. If you don’t own Fireworks CS4, you can download the trial copy to see if this new feature is a must-have for you.

In the times they are a-changin’ department, Apple recommends that you install anti-virus software on your Mac. It isn’t the computer security so much as iTunes, QuickTime, and the Safari Web browser. The recommended products are Intego VirusBarrier X5, McAfee VirusScan for Mac, and Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 11 for Macintosh.