Eye Dropper is my new favourite Google Chrome extension
Ever wanted the hex code of a particular color of a particular webpage or image? Do you also use Google Chrome? Eye Dropper is the completely awesome solution that does everything you could possibly want a color picker extension to do. I can’t recommend this enough.
Countering The App-Based Web
Far too little do I visit websites, these days. I mostly stay within the comfortable uniform walls of Google Reader, clicking j or k to navigate from one item to the next, in a carefully mixed personal newsstream. Which means webdesign is usually lost on me. Not only that, but with very few exceptions, I [...]
Color Scheme Designer 3
Color Scheme Designer 3 is a web-app that helps you pick colors for your next webdesign project. It looks great!
Mockingbird, For Wireframes
Mockingbird lets you quickly create wireframes for websites, right on the web. Drag in common visual HTML elements such as push buttons, pulldowns and videos. The resulting wireframe will look like a mockup, not confusing clients that it represents the final design.
Aardvark For Google Chrome
One of my favourite Firefox extensions exists for Google Chrome in the form of a bookmarklet. Go to the Aardvark Bookmarklet site and drag the link to your Chrome bookmarks bar, and you can now highlight divs, remove content and all the other things you used to do in Firefox.
How to Target IE6, IE7, and IE8 Uniquely with 4 Characters [CSS Hacks]
Some interesting new CSS hacks: body { color: red; /* all browsers, of course */ color : green\9; /* IE8 and below */ *color : yellow; /* IE7 and below */ _color : orange; /* IE6 */ } Sure, specific CSS should be served using conditional comments, but every so often, a good ol’ CSS [...]
Gmails New CSS Buttons
This morning. Or perhaps yesterday. Well this week. Maybe. Google updated the buttons in Gmail. Where they used to be CSS and images, they are now pure CSS3 using border-radius and linear-gradient. Here’s what they look like now, and here’s what they used to look like. This is interesting for two reasons. On the one [...]
Invoke Google Chrome Frame When Available
Google recently changed the way you harness the power of Google Chrome Frame in Internet Explorer. Chrome Frame is the plugin which adds Google Chrome as a browser renderer inside Internet Explorer, giving you access to, among other things, HTML5. Previously, you inserted a simple meta tag. Now you have to send the headers programmatically. [...]