CSSEdit

CSSEdit rocked my world in CSS coding. Due to it’s live preview my coding time decreased dramatically. While you edit your website you see everything changing real-time. No need to save and refresh. The little downside about it is that the live preview only has Safari’s engine for rendering, so in the end you’ll probably do some fine tuning for Firefox and off course IE… But hey, forget about IE ;)

Back in the old days when I was building a dynamic website I had to save my CSS file on the host and then refresh. CSSEdit has a great solution for this. You can have any CSS file overrule any website. Local or online, doesn’t matter! Say for instance you’d like to restyle Facebook, just for kicks, you add a the simple command “/* @override http://www.facebook.com/style.css */” at the top of your CSS file and your done. When you open Facebook.com in your preview window you can go right ahead!

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Skitch

Ever had to show somebody that little misplaced pixel? Or that line spacing on a specific element? You either had 2 choices; explain in about a thousand words, or make a screen-dump, open Photoshop, go ahead with some tools etc…

Anyhow… It sucked… And then there was Skitch, developed by Plasq (the same guys which made Comic Life). You can think of it as your own chalkboard/screenshot app. Whenever you make a screenshot you can make notes on it right away, resizing and cropping is as easy as resizing the window. Making screenshots was never this much fun and easy!

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Colors

As a front-end web developer I often have to figure out which colors are used and apply them into my css stylesheet. This is fine for some simple corporate sites which have one or two color tones. But sometimes you’ve got those neat designs which contain loads and loads of those annoying # codes.

Before I was always looking around in Photoshop or Illustrators but nowadays I use this great little nifty tool simply called “Colors”. All it does is get your color just by pointing (pixel precise since it zooms in).

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1Password

Lots of you probably have a few different passwords and user-names spread over the WWW. Probably all the websites you visit on a regular basis are the ones which don’t cause you any problem. But there are lots of websites you visit once, maybe twice, a month. At these websites I’m guessing my user-name and pass a few times and finally will decide to let the page retrieve my password.

Since one month I’ve been using 1Password and love it ever since! This app integrates in all your browsers automatically. Whenever you fill in a login it’ll ask you to remember it. After using it for a few days you’re probably already getting addicted. Retrieving your passwords takes just one click!

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Synergy

As you probably noticed, I’m a huge iTunes fan. For a few years now I have been using YouControl to control my iTunes from the menu-bar so I didn’t have to swap back and forth to iTunes, but can directly access my main controls.

I was always enjoying the function, but didn’t really like the looks that YouControl had in my menu-bar. Via Boy I got the App Senergy that does almost the exact same as you control, only looks (in my opinion) a bit better.

Ok, so that’s mainly why I posted Synergy (who’s logo by the way is dead ugly, but hey, you won’t see that, so that’s fine).

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