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Color Pix a handy color picking tool
http://www.colorschemer.com/colorpix_info.php
Get the Flash Player to see the wordTube Media Player.
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My Essential Firefox Plugins
1. Gmail Manager
http://www.longfocus.com/firefox/gmanager/
Essential for managing multiple gmail accounts and getting notifications.
2. Download Status Bar
http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/
Useful download status bar.
3. StumbleUpon
Excellent random search tools, great for a different way of searching, try using the search feature.
Essential for web developers
That’s it that pretty much all I use, check out more over at
50 Best Firefox Extensions for Power Surfing
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The Reluctant Web Designer
Let’s get one thing straight, I’m lazy! and if there’s one thing I hate, that is designing web sites. Just because I can put a website together does not make me a web designer!
That’s why I’ve put together this little list for all the other lazy designers out there.
1. Don’t start a design from scratch, look what’s out there and see what works!
2. Steal, beg, borrow, and buy scripts, there’s nothing wrong with spending money on a good bit of code, such as highslide js.
3. Use open source CMS such as wordpress, great structure, logical, easy to use.
4. Learn how to use Dreamweaver. Learn from video www.lynda.com, worth the money!
5. Keep learning!
6. Understand Colors.
7. Use color pix.
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Essentials for a Wordpress Website
Latest Wordpress Installation
Nextgen Gallery
Image Manager
WP-Lytebox
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WP Highslide
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Wordtube
JW Media Player
Angsuman’s Authenticated WordPress Plugin
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/angsumans-authenticated-wordpress-plugin-password-protection-for-your-wordpress-blog/
Flexipage widget
Google Analitics Plugin.
this one too.
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Optimal Web Video Sizes
For Showreel video, i find that 400×225 pixels is more than enough. Compress in FLV format using 200kbs -400kbs.
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What is the best free and fastest remote desktop apps?
I have recently been asked about remote desktop, and more importantly which is the fastest and best.
After supporting many people over the years as an Support Engineer I have have used many remote desktop applications from norton to logmein, to vnc, so which is the best? comments below please.
Here’s a few that I will be testing
http://www.tightvnc.com/download.html
www.LogMeIn.com
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/tools/rdclientdl.mspx
After 6 months of testing I have found that TeamViewer although not on my original list is one of the best around, if you use 3d applications and other graphics software it handles them very well. I recommend checking it out.