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Entries Tagged as 'Tools and Utilities'

Is the server down or is it just me?

May 6th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m not sure because I can’t get to it.  Is it ME?  I get these questions often by phone in a panic.  The first thing I do is open a browser to the site.  More often than not the site is up.  To prevent some of the support calls you might make try a couple [...]

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Tags: Tech Support · Tools and Utilities · Websites

Chat Clients in a Web 2.0 world

April 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Years ago there people could send quick small messages from terminal to terminal and it was good.
Then they could send messages to groups of people
Then they could chat in groups together and it was good
Then you could chat with people using other chat progams and it was good.
Now there’s something even better!

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Tags: Tools and Utilities

Upgraded Wordpress

April 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Just upgraded to 2.5 and me likey the new admin interface.  I hope the rest of it works just as wel!!

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Tags: Site News · Tools and Utilities

Firefox 3.0 Beta 4

March 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Well Firefox 3.0 Betas have been  coming out rather regularly and this is NO exception.  The bad?  Extensions… the Good? Fast , Less Memory, Standards Compliant.  Keep tuned for updates.

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Tags: Tools and Utilities

Expression Web 2 Beta Released

March 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Microsoft recently released a public beta of their web editing software Expression Web.  It’s got a bunch of new features that are  for some advanced editing.

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Web Development

Modify and compress your digital photos.

March 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off

The New Image Compressor 2008 is a perfect choice for digital photography enthusiasts. It’s armed with complete image viewer, screen capture, photo retouch and of course image compression tools.

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Uncategorized · Web Development

Vector Magic gone commercial

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Just an update to my post on Vector Magic was a free tool from Standford that created vector images from bitmaps.  (A bitmap image is basically made of data that says make this pixel red this one green, vector images have data that says draw a green line , make a red square).  Well to [...]

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Web Development · Websites