Turn Your Browser into a Web Server with Opera Unite
Opera Unite is officially released today a new online collaboration technology applications, which is based on Opera browser platform, allows users quickly and easily to turn their computers into personal web servers in minutes.
Opera Unite is a new online collaboration technology, based on the Opera 10 web browser’s simple and sophisticated shared server features such as data sharing service. Accordingly, Unite will completely subvert the traditional “client – server” model, making each computer can not only become a client but also become a server, then the computer can be directly connect between the peer-to-peer interaction through networks and information sharing, no longer need to transit through a third party server. Currently, Opera Unite provides us with a file-sharing, media players, photo albums, chat rooms and other services even able to change your computer as a network server role. In short, Opera Unite is currently available for download for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Twitter Search and Trends Client – TweetTabs
TweetTabs is a new simple Twitter search and trends client that just launched by TweetMeme today. It allows you search Twitter and follow the hot and emerging Twitter trends and tags in real-time. Use the search box to easily search Twitter for tweets, TweetTabs will automatically update each tab with new content when it comes in. Unlike TweetDeck, it’s completely web browser based, no need to download/install any software. The site itself offers Twitter’s current trending topics as tabs, and the option to add custom tabs by conducting a search. The search results auto-refresh in what appears to be near real-time.
What you can do with TweetTabs:
- Open as many individual tabs with different search results in each;
- Integration with the TweetMeme API to allow users to preview short url’s;
- Ability to one-click retweet if you are logged into TweetMeme;
- Drag and drop each tab to change ordering;
- One-click trending topics to open new tabs;
- Retweet, view profile, reply to tweets via the Twitter web interface.
- http://tweettabs.com/
Design Tiled Backgrounds with BGPatterns
BGPatterns is web-based creating application for designers and developers to quickly design tiled pattern backgrounds and textures. You can select a wide range of awesome background pattern graphics that you can use to custom a personal patterns. There is a simple RGB color picker at color section to match your current website design. Under the image section, the image scale, location and opacity is adjustable as well. for canvas section, 5 different canvas styles are available to select and resize, You can also fine tune the texture opacity. And last the rotate section is used to rotate the background image pattern. After you tweak the colors, canvas, image or rotate, you are able to a preview you design immediately. Click to the “Apply background” under the previewed image, your design would be applied to the browser accordingly to see how it looks actually. Of course, if you satisfied your pattern, directly download the JPG image or save to “My Patterns”.
BGPatterns is free for anyone to use and design your very own patterns. Register an account and vote for your favorite patterns. Besides, please check out Favorite Striped Background Online Generators for more impressive background generators on the web as well.
Custom CSS Framework with Grid System Generator
Grid System Generator is a grid system generator, is created by Ewout Kozel, that asks for grid width, number of columns, margin-left or right and generates a fixed grid system with valid XHTML and CSS for rapid web design prototyping and development. The grid generator is based on 960.gs and Golden grid system. When a custom grid system has been generated successfully, you can download the generated grid system files accordingly. Besides the CSS framework, a .PNG background file is created as well to help in design and prototyping. You refer to the instructions for using the grid generator.
Other great CSS grid generators:
1. Variable Grid System, a quick way to generate an underlying CSS grid for your site. The CSS generated file is based on the 960 Grid System.
2. Blueprint Grid CSS Generator, helps you generate more flexible versions of Blueprint’s grid.css and compressed.css and grid.png files.
3. Grid Layout Generator by DIV Design, generate CSS and HTML codes for liquid lor fixed grid layout.
10 Useful Online Image Optimization And Resizing Tools
As a web designer or web developer, image optimization is very important for loading website faster and also reduces the bandwidth consumption benefit your hosting bill. You should perform both basic and advanced optimization for all images without changing their look or visual quality. Basic optimization includes cropping unnecessary space, reducing color dept, removing image comments, and saving the image to an appropriate format. Advanced optimization involves further compression of JPEG and PNG files. Here is a roundup for all the excellent web-based image optimization editing tools that you can use without a dime on the web.
Web-based Image Optimization Tools
1. Smush.it
http://smush.it/
Smush.it is a free service that optimizes images for publishing on the web. It compresses and converts images automatically and works with most types of image formats such as JPGs, PNGs, GIFs, and animated GIF files. You’ll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your images and all the changed images as a single zip for download. You can choose to upload your images directly to the service, provide Smush.it with a url, use a Firefox plugin that analyzes a whole page at once, or the Sumsh.it bookmarklet.
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