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Sep 26, 2007

With the popularity of online video there has been a rise in the need for royalty free music to use in videos. Using music from your favorite band or artists can lead to your video being removed from video sharing sites, such as YouTube, for copywrite infringment. While I have ...

Sep 20, 2007

If you have never heard of Woot I would be surprised. It is an interesting site where they sell one item a day until it is sold out. Usually it is some type of gadget or computer item, but not always. It is a unique concept that gets people coming ...

Sep 18, 2007

Stripes seem to becoming popular again in designs. I have not used stripes in a web design for awhile, but after discovering StripeMania I might have to consider trying a design with stripes again. StripeMania is probably the easiest tool I have ever used to create a seamless striped image. I ...

Sep 12, 2007

I run Ubuntu Linux on my desktop and laptop here at my office/home and I really enjoy using it, but as a web developer I need to create websites that work in more than just Firefox on Linux. While I have a membership at BrowserCam, it is much faster sometimes ...

Sep 5, 2007

One of the things I am paranoid about is losing my work. I have had hard drives die on me in the past and ever since I have been pretty good about backing up the data I really need and want to keep. It helps that backing up has gotten ...

Aug 23, 2007

A tool I have been using lately is What the Font?. You provide it an image of a font and it tells you what font it is. I have found it to be very handing when I get a redesign job come in and I just can't figure out what ...

Aug 8, 2007

I don't know when Google came out with this extension for Firefox, but it sure is handy. I have several computers, and I like to have the browsers all identical. I was using Foxmarks which works great, but there was no easy way to sync up passwords, tabs and cookies. ...

Aug 2, 2007

There is no doubt that video is a very powerful medium for websites to use to help promote themselves, help sell their products, and generally use to reach a wider audience. Creating video has gotten a great deal easier with most digital cameras and webcams able to record short video ...

May 30, 2007

I like Google Maps. They add an additional feature to websites that used to be very difficult to create on your own. I have integrated Google Maps into various websites for clients to do many different things from giving directions to or from a location to combining Google Maps with ...

May 24, 2007

I was curious to find out what other webmasters favourite Firefox add-ons are so I posted my list over at DigitalPoint and asked others to list theirs. Here is the list of the Firefox add-ons that other webmasters find useful. ChatZilla CoLT ColorZilla del.icio.us Download Statusbar DownThemAll! Fasterfox [Google Toolbar ...