Web applications and websites are all going Web 2.0. You too want to jump on the bandwagon, but do you have a Web 2.0 name for your product/company/domain name? If you are having hard time coming out with names Web 2.0 style, here’s a website that might give you a hand or two – Web 2.0 Name Generator.
One main reason why we like Firefox so much is because of its tab-browsing. The tabs are great, it organizes all your browser windows under one application (in this case, firefox) so you don’t have to alt-tab too much.
Folks at WinTabber have been very thoughtful; they came out with a light window application that allows you to open any windows application in tabs. That’s right, that means you can tab all applications like Live Messenger, browsers, Photoshop, MS Word, etc all under one light program – WinTabber. The second good news, it’s free so you really might want to check it out.
Here are tones of free crystal clear icons for you, released by Everaldo Coelho under GNU Lesser General Public License. Icons are organized by categories of Actions, Applications, Devices, File Systems, KDM and MIME-Types. They come in transparency .PNG format with size as large as 128×128. A free icon page web and UI designers would not want to miss.
Here’s another online service that allows you to create glassy button. What makes this glassy button generator so special is its flexibility. It gives you tones of control; forget the typical button height& width, button text, text color and background color, it also gives you the option to change mouse rollover colors, image positions, foreground type and colors, etc. You can even upload your own font and images.
If you get bored easily with your desktop wallpaper, here is software you might want to take a look at. Wallpaper Juggler is a Windows application that helps you to cycle/swap your desktop wallpapers. You add your wallpapers to Wallpaper Juggler and the software will copy your wallpapers to a directory and swap according to timer preset by you. (15 minutes, 30minutes, etc).
WordPress fans, here is something you might not want to miss. Snap2object brings you 30 free WordPress Icons. They are in vector format, therefore scaleable without affecting its quality.
The download file however is in PDF format, personally I would prefer open source formats like .AI or .PSD.
These are some quality icons set for linux users who want to update their gnome. For windows users, these icons can be extract for individual use too. GNOME 2.18 comes in .PNG format (8×8, 16×16, 22×22, 24×24, 32×32, 48×48) as well as SVG format.
I’m pretty sure you know what carbon fibres are. Here’s how you can create a carbon fibre pattern and use them in any designs, all with Photoshop.
Most internet surfers use download managers to handle their bulk and massive downloads but sometimes these software may take up more resources than expected.
Here is a download manager, a Firefox extension that don’t takes much computer resources and also boost your download speed by 400% – DownThemAll. DownThemAll also allows pausing and resuming downloads at anytime.
Transformers the movie is by far the best movie ever created this year. Here’s something for the transformers fans – Creating Transformers and autobots & decepticons icons in Photoshop.
It’s time to get rid of the old and low resolution Web 2.0 services icons and images. ilemoned and miniajax brings you nicer ones, all in a download package. Icons come in formats of png, ico and psd. Web 2.0 services like blinklist, blogger, bloglines, delicious, digg, engadget, feedburner, flickr, lifelogger, magnolia, netscape, newsgator, newsvine, perfomancing, reddit, rojo, rss, stumbleupon, technorati, wordpress and zhuaxia are included.
Download Web 2.0 services icon pack.
How good are you in using <table> in HTML? We know <table> might not be useful now as most outputs are achievable with <div>, here’s a Japanese video that tell you otherwise. See how the Japs raise HTML coding skills to a higher level by using <table> and it’s sub tags to draw a manga cartoon. Video after jump.
Image plays important role anywhere, particularly if you are in the design field. In articles it help encourage readership; on websites it make readers focus on where we want them to.
However, getting the right images isn’t easy sometimes. Here’s 30+ websites that provides stock photo and royalty free images, not all are free but definitely worth a visit.
Full list after jump.
Proxy websites allows us to bypass our current ISP’s IP and connect to targeted website with a different IP; thus hiding our actual origin from detectable. Internet users use proxy websites for various reasons, some to access websites potentially blocked by their colleges or workplace, some use it to test their scripts. I frequently used them to test geo-location ads or to check if DNS are properly propagated when I adjust their settings.
I’ve decided to bring this entry back from archive to front page after receiving tones of emails asking for alternative proxies. Instead of the previous 2 proxy websites, here’s my personal collection on proxy websites. Full list after jump.
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