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Download CSSEdit

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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Posted by Jaap on April 29th, 2009 and is placed in: Internet, Web development 1 Comment »
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Download Skitch

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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Posted by Jaap on April 28th, 2009 and is placed in: Media, Web development No Comments yet, be the first! »
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Download Colors

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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Posted by Jaap on April 27th, 2009 and is placed in: Web development No Comments yet, be the first! »
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Download MAMP

MAMP

I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t like setting up PHP MySQL servers. I always wondered why it couldn’t be just an application with two buttons that starts and stops the server. Well here it is! It’s an application called MAMP and is developed by Living-e AG.

It contains Apache 2, PHP4&5 and MySQL. The PHP scripts are processed by eAccelerator, which results in a up to ten times faster execution than Apple’s pre-installed Apache/PHP.

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Posted by Boy on May 20th, 2008 and is placed in: Web development No Comments yet, be the first! »