tools Posts

Feb 6, 2008

[ in late January and bookmarked them to take a closer look. I thought the service could come in handy for me to send files to clients and more importantly as a way for clients to send me files since there is always something that is to large to ...

Jan 15, 2008

I Stumbled across a sketch generator today and I was curious how many others there are out there. I could only find two: Spork Forge and Dumpr. I guess there is not a very large market for sketch generators. Both generators are pretty similar. You choose a file from your ...

Dec 12, 2007

It seems like I am always looking for a new way of creating rounded corners for designs. I usually just take the easy way out and use images. In my search this time around I came across a website called Spiffy Corners. Spiffy Corners is a generator that will create ...

Dec 11, 2007

Recently I was called to help a local business with trying to recover some important files. Unfortunately I was unable to recover the files and the cost to that business to recover from that loss could easily be $5000 in time. Shortly after that experience I was looking at my ...

Nov 20, 2007

Ever wonder what that color is called? Perhaps it is a guy thing, but I know I could not tell you the names of all of the colors. Well now you don't have to worry about it, use Name that Color and you will alway have the right name for ...

Nov 7, 2007

In my never ending quest to get better at choosing colours for websites I have found another website that I think offers me help. Is is called Sphere by Colorjack and I have already found a use for it on a new site I have been working on this week. The ...

Nov 6, 2007

I recently found Splashup, an online graphic editing tool. While I won't be deleting my copy of Photoshop off of my hard drive quite yet, I was very impressed with the features available in the online graphic editor. Impressed enough that I would use them for doing quick and easy ...

Oct 30, 2007

VectorMagic is one of those sites that I recently came across that first makes me wonder how do they do that, and second makes me say awesome, because it is a tool I have been needing. Many of my clients send me logos for their websites as .jpg, .tif and ...

Oct 22, 2007

After seeing the Shoemoney and ProBlogger square dance movie I just could not resist and had to make the The John Chow Chiquita. I was pretty impressed with JibJab. It only took me 20 minutes to create this fun video, and I would have finished sooner if I had not checked ...

Oct 22, 2007

The generaters that are being created are getting more complex all the time. I recently came across the templatr, a website that you can use to create and edit your own WordPress theme. If you have been wanting to start creating your own WordPress themes but don't want to learn all ...