I hope you've noticed that our Answers section now links solutions with PDF files of previous articles - subscribers already get access to all these as part of their subscription, but hopefully everyone will benefit because we're doing the searching for you!

I'm now thinking of expanding the "Hitting the mirrors" section at the end of News so that we can tell you about more project releases. What do you think?

LXF134 is now available for the world to enjoy, and some subscribers may even have finished reading their copy by now. We spent quite some time monkeying around with the cover for this issue, so my question is this: did anyone notice?

• Did you notice it was extra shiny?
• Did you notice it was extra thick?
• Did you notice we moved things around and added a sidebar?

These things aren't just a one-off - they'll be permanent fixtures from now on, hopefully doing a better job of shouting about all the awesome in each issue of LXF.

There's more to come, too - LXF135 will come with a free mini-book teaching the basics of PHP programming, and LXF136 is the issue where my dream comes true and we include what can only be described as the most incredibly crazy LXF covermount ever. Ever. Hurray!

Regular LXFers will know that we have a section on our DVD called Directory, which has been largely the same over the last few years with not much going on. Well, I'd like to change that! Back in the day, when I were a lad, computer magazines used to have regular sections for readers to advertise their work - fanzines, artwork, PD software compilations etc. If possible, I'd like to bring some of that spirit back with a new, revamped Directory section on the disc.