Find the HTML colour code of any pixel on the screen

instant eyedropper For any novice web designer/programmer/student choosing the right colour for the website remains a challenge and is much more difficult to identify the colour codes from a existing image or design. Though there are ways to find the colour codes by using eyedropper tools from Photoshop, Gimp and other imaging tools they are not good for a beginners to use it straight away. Instant Eyedropper is a free software tool that can help the users to find the HTML color code with ease saving their time quite a lot.

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July 7th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Its time to get a name for your Face

facebook Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites with over more than 200 million active users worldwide. This weekend millions of Facebook users will be fighting up to  get a unique username for themselves for their profile making it easier for members to be located online. The web address for member’s profile or groups will contain the username going forward replacing the numeric id’s to easily direct friends, family, and co-workers to your profile.

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June 11th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Preview and Test your webpages with Adobe Browser Lab

adobe-browser-lab Web development has always been a tough job for years to developers in presenting information to the web users irrespective of their browsers. The advent of new browsers, operating systems and web standards makes this job quite difficult. There are also lot of free tools like Browsershots, IE NetRenderer etc available online to test your website in different browsers across all various operating system platforms. Adobe BrowserLab is the new horse in the stable which helps users to test your web pages on leading browsers and operating system side by side.

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June 10th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Can Microsoft go big with bing?

bing Microsoft’s most anticipated new search engine Bing (earlier known as the Kumo) is now up and running in most of the countries replacing Windows Live Search. Bing also known as the decision engine has reached 6% market share within hours of launch. With Google having the most of the market share for searches across the world and having received mixed reviews after the launch will this new search engine can turn the tables for Microsoft?

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June 3rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

Change timestamp attribute of any file

file-timestamp Every file in your computer has got attributes like file creation, modify and last access timestamp. These attributes cannot be changed unless you write a program or use a software to do it. eXpress TimeStamp Toucher (XTST) is a freeware tool which can change the timestamp attributes of files or group files with just by a click.

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June 1st, 2009 | Leave a Comment