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- Intro to Git for Web Designers | Webdesigner Depot webdesignerdepot.com
- Send Me Home - World Peace through Wandering Items sendmehome.com
A free tool that lets you assign a unique code to anything.
- NVDA – a free, open source screen reader | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Hadn't come across this one.
- Must Have Menu Bar Applications For Mac OS X Leopard | Mac Tricks And Tips mactricksandtips.com
- Stubbornella » Blog Archive » Object Oriented CSS, Grids on Github stubbornella.org
Object Oriented CSS allows you to write fast, maintainable, standards-based front end code. It adds much needed predictability to CSS so that even beginners can participate in writing beautiful websites.
- OneSwarm: Privacy preserving P2P oneswarm.cs.washington.edu
Instead of sharing data indiscriminately, data shared with OneSwarm can be made public, it can be shared with friends, shared with some friends but not others, and so forth. We call this friend-to-friend (F2F) data sharing.
"Xenocode WebApp technology allows Internet Explorer 8, 7, 6, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome to run simultaneously on any version of Windows, directly from the web". Win only.
- Blackbaud Labs - Labs Article labs.blackbaud.com
"One day it dawned on me that Webkit is VERY similar on Safari for Windows and the iPhone. Could I somehow embed just the rendering component into a native Windows application and give it enough polish to do a decent job of simulating the iPhone Web browsing experience?" It would appear that the answer is "yes".
- Password Manager + Automatic Form Filler for Mac OS X agilewebsolutions.com
Probably a better bet than passwordmaker. "use strong and unique passwords for every site and never forget any of them".
- Local W3C validator on OSX | AlastairC alastairc.ac
You can install it as a local ’service’, essentially a web application running on Apache on your local machine. That means you can adjust the Web Developers Toolbar for Firefox to use you local version.
- Javascript grid overlay | Labs | Pete Goodman - Web Developer petegoodman.com
Handy. "To show or hide the design grid (or other graphic), just import the following javascript file, and then use the keys Control and ; to show or hide the grid."
- Onehub onehub.com
FTP Replacement, Large File Transfer, Custom Extranets
- Can I use... a.deveria.com
<blockquote>Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies"</blockquote>
- Opening Times opening-times.co.uk
"Enter a UK town or postcode to find out when nearby shops are open". Brilliant.
- FireScope - HTML Brains at your Fingertips tools.sitepoint.com
FireScope is a Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug, to extend it with reference material for HTML and CSS.
- Paypal - Test Credit Card Account Numbers paypal.com
- Destroy Today / Projects / DestroyTwitter destroytoday.com
A robust but compact Twitter application built on the Adobe AIR platform. It consists of a series of canvases that constantly update to keep tweets current and up-to-date using notifications that appear immediately after a new tweet arrives.
- mathusalem - Google Code code.google.com
A robust and unintrusive backup system for Mac OS X Leopard, which can be used either as a System Preferences pane or directly as a command line tool.
- IE NetRenderer - Browser Compatibility Check - ipinfo.info
IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed datacenter located in Germany.
Validator S.A.C. (Stand Alone Complex) is a stand-alone, easy to install, version of the W3C's HTML / XHTML Markup Validator for Mac OS X.
- IMO imo.im
A web-based service that allows users to hold text, voice, and video chats on multiple instant messaging protocols. Currently supported protocols include AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN, MySpace, Skype, and Yahoo Messenger.
- Laconica laconi.ca
A Free and Open Source microblogging platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange short (140 character) messages over the Web.
"Allows you to use TortoiseSVN and other Subversion clients with Team Foundation Server. It converts the calls made by your Subversion client to the API supported by TFS." I really hope I don't have to use this.
- CSS Browser Selector rafael.adm.br
Wrong but potentially useful as last resort. "CSS Browser Selector is a very small javascript with just one line which empower CSS selectors. It gives you the ability to write specific CSS code for each operating system and each browser."
- Terminal Tip: Backup Delicious Bookmarks from the Shell lifehacker.com
- AJAX APIs Playground code.google.com
Allows electronic dance music fans to listen to DJ sets like they were albums. Users are able to view tracklists, skip tracks, and jump to specific songs. They have the ability to quickly skim through sets or instantly play any song contained at any point in any DJ set.
- Layers | Screen forensics layersapp.com
"Capture your displays as a Photoshop layered image". Can't think of a use for this yet, but cool.
- Shapeways | passionate about creating shapeways.com
We want to be a fun, inspiring place where you make your own 3D designs come to life using 3D printing.
- ZigZig Software - ZigVersion zigversion.com
Another mac svn client. This one looks like it might be quite good.
"wpSEO stands for efficient, fully-automated and affordable SEO in WordPress, the state of the art Weblog-System. WordPress SEO made easy." Pay.
- MediaOnTwitter / FrontPage mediaontwitter.pbwiki.com
Journalists, Bloggers & Media Outlets on Twitter
- userfly userfly.com
Run instant usability studies for your website using your real users. You can get it up & running in seconds with one line of javascript, and immediately watch movies of your users’ browsing sessions to analyze their behavior.
- How we use IRC at Last.fm | Richard Jones, Esq. metabrew.com
Good to see a bit more info on this. Experimented with irccat after seeing it mentioned at FOWA a couple of years ago but had trouble getting the dynamics right for a multi-project model.