Tag: tools

Alternative Pinging Tools For Blogs

Ten “One Click” Services for Pinging
Pinging services notify many “ping servers” that your blog has new material. I run WordPress on many sites, so when I make a post it automatically connects to Pingomatic and let’s others know about my new articles. If you don’t have WordPress, or if Pingomatic is very slow, […]

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Top Ten Open Source Apps for Mac

10 Free Macintosh Programs You Should Download
In my last article, I have covered at length the top free replacement windows apps that you should download for Windows XP. What about free MAC apps that give you more power and efficiency? After some expressed interest, I created a nice list below of the most […]

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Free Apps for Maximum Windows Power

Replacement Programs to make Windows more Efficient
Built-in windows programs often suck but there are some great alternatives. Third party developers created many powerful free apps to make your work more efficient and your time more productive. These are mostly powerful replacements for your windows programs that you already use, however, this software is […]

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Flickr Photos in Original Size

Retrieve Original Size of any Flickr Photos
I got sick and tired of looking at the source code of photos on flickr that had “All Sizes” disabled to figure out the URL for the original size of the image. It’s quite annoying so I decided to write a little program that uses the Flickr API […]

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Best JavaScript SlideShows

Free JavaScript Slideshow for your Website
If you need to create a JavaScript SlideShow for your website there are tons of codes available on the Internet for you to utilize. However, some certainly stand out because they follow web standards and use good libraries/code. Lots of people use Flash based solutions for slideshows but […]

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LightBox, ThickBox, GreyBox

A neat way of displaying images, image galleries, or websites with a JavaScript overlay window.

A couple months ago I found a cool script called LighBox that lets you click on an image thumbnail and see the actual image on the same page in an overlay window with the background page faded out. It worked […]

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