Category Archives: Software

CSS Sculptor v.1.1 and CSS Menu Writer v.1.0

Posted on Thursday 29 May 2008 by

I’ve just blogged over at View from the Potting Shed about CSS Sculptor v.1.1 and CSS Menu Writer v.1.0 a couple of commercial Dreamweaver 8 and CS3 extensions (both US $99.99) from WebAssist. Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor v.1.1 is an … Continue reading →

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Google Analytics Reporting suite on Adobe AIR

Posted on Wednesday 9 April 2008 by

The Google Analytics Reporting suite is an Adobe AIR application that brings Google Analytics to the desktop. It uses it’s own custom API to interact with Google and nearly implements all features of Analytics. AIR required It obviously requires the … Continue reading →

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Pixel ruler for Visio 2003 … and everything else

Posted on Saturday 16 February 2008 by

Visio Oddly, Microsoft Visio 2003 doesn’t support pixel measurements, which for me is about as annoying as Microsoft Publisher not supporting colours specified in hex. Information architect Gene Smith has developed his own simple pixel ruler for Visio. Everything else … Continue reading →

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Sun buys MySQL for $1 billion

Posted on Thursday 17 January 2008 by

If you’ve been reading Sun CEO and President Jonathan Schwartz’s blog recently (as I’m sure you all do) you’ll know that Sun have bought MySQL AB for US $1 billion. Here it is from the MySQL AB end. Whose SQL … Continue reading →

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Kuler add-on for Dreamweaver

Posted on Tuesday 15 January 2008 by

If you’ve ever used the Adobe Kuler online application for selecting theme colours, and you use Dreamweaver, then you may be interested in Dreamweaver Tools for Kuler 1.0.0 from WebAssist. It’s free too. If not then … well, there might … Continue reading →

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WriteMaps site map application

Posted on Wednesday 5 December 2007 by

Also spotted on Boagworld.com: WriteMaps Site Map Application. From the intro blurb: WriteMaps is a free web-based tool that allows you to create, edit, and share sitemaps online. As a WriteMaps user, you and your team will be able to … Continue reading →

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Version control and bug tracking

Posted on Wednesday 10 October 2007 by

A Web 2.0 hamster and owner (photo from stock.xchng) For the last couple of months I’ve been using a couple of free tools for personal version control and bug tracking issues. While there may be bigger, better products out there, … Continue reading →

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Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor

Posted on Tuesday 2 October 2007 by

This is my latest favourite ‘toy’ that I’m playing with just now. Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor is a Dreamweaver Extension (for DW8 or DW CS3) from WebAssist developed in collaboration with the CSS guru himself. It’s not cheap, though: normal … Continue reading →

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Develop custom web applications with PHPMaker

Posted on Friday 20 July 2007 by

This is not some random advertisement for yet another piece of softare with which to clutter your desktop, but a genuinely useful tool for those involved in developing web database applications.  No, I am not on commission! I thought that … Continue reading →

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More 2.0ness

Posted on Friday 20 July 2007 by

In the spirit of Friday afternoon tasks, I have created a Bebo IWMW group. Join up if you’re a Bebo monkey. http://www.bebo.com/annualwebpilgramage

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