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Archive for the ‘tools’ Category

Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts are worth a bookmark.

Firefox 3 Download Record

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

On Firefox 3 Download Day the World Record was exceeded by over 3 million to reach a staggering 8.3 million software downloads in the first 24 hours.

dLite JavaScript Library

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Robert Nyman’s dLite library is an ultra light version based on his DOMAssistant library. It offers very basic functions only - adding and removing classes and events, find elements by class and id, and prevent event bubbling.

Using JAWS for Evaluation

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

WebAim (Web Accessibility in Mind) have a useful article titled Using JAWS to Evaluate Web Accessibility which walks us through the basic controls in the JAWS screen reading software. Its also well worth your while reading the associated article on the WebAIM blog from December titled Learning from Screen Readers.

HttpFox 0.8.2

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

HttpFox 0.8.2 is a Firefox plugin which is a HTTP analyzer.

Protonotes

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Protonotes uses a little bit of cut and paste JavaScript in your prototype web page header to give you up and running sticky notes to aid collaboration. I’m going to use this next time around.

Adobe Buzzword BETA

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Adobe Buzzword BETA is a free online word processing collaboration tool with version control and change tracking.

Dropbox BETA

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Dropbox BETA is a cross platform file sharing application that looks simple and impressive.