Archive for November, 2007

10 Absolute No-No’s For Any Freelance Web Designer

If you’re a freelancer, make sure you don’t make any of these common mistakes.read more | digg story

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Firefox 3 Beta 1 Now Available

All platforms: Firefox 3, the next version of everyone’s favorite cross-platform browser, has released a public beta for early adopters, web developers and other curious souls. New features include a Places Organizer for bookmarks and saved searches, a plug-in manager for the likes of Flash, Java and other helpers, and many more improvements and changes. [...]


Recover Any Password in Firefox with the Asterisk Revealer [Firefox]

The Firefox Asterisk Revealer bookmarklet reveals the contents of any password field (i.e., a field whose text is obscured by asterisks) in an alert box using a simple bit of javascript—particularly handy for those sites for which you’ve saved the password but long since forgotten what it is. The post itself just includes the javascript, [...]


See how your web site looks in a bunch of different browsers

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.
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Terminal Codes for Leopard Tweaking

Beautify your Leopard with single liner terminal codes.read more | digg story

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Neat Photos Lining Up U.S. Currency with D.C. Buildings Depicted on Them

A clever series of shots lining up currency with the D.C. buildings depicted on them. We suspect this is one of those things that seems simple, but in practice is a lot more difficult than it looks to get everything in focus and lined up perfectly.read more | digg story

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YamiPod 1.7 - iPod manager. (Free)

YamiPod is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation.

It also has extra features such as rss news and podcast support, remove duplicates, easy notes editor (with multipage support), songs synchronization, playlists export and much [...]


Gmail’s Best New Keyboard Shortcut [Gmail]

Gmail revamp includes new keyboard shortcuts, but this one deserves an individual shout: when you’re viewing a Gmail message, you can archive it AND move to the next or previous message in one keystroke. Use the square brackets:

[ to archive and go to the previous message
] to archive and go to the next message
Alternately, [...]