April 4th, 2011 by Tom

Fast and easy to use tool for creating a nice CSS3 button. This tool is CSS3 Button Maker which created by css-tricks.com. I really like this tool cause I like this style of button, it’s look good.

This tool is easy to use, you just select color, font, button size, text color, hover color and a little bit adjustment, you will get a nice CSS3 button. You click on “View the CSS” button to generate CSS code to put on your site.

And better than that the creator of this tool give away source code for free. You can make it better or run it on your own website.

Link : CSS3 Button Maker

CSS3 Button Maker

April 3rd, 2011 by Tom

Google Reader is my favorite RSS feed reader. Lately I found a useful tool that makes reading Google reader more features and convenient.

WebReader is a full featured desktop client for Google Reader which have the cool feature such as you can easily share a news story via email, Facebook and Twitter, WebReader will notice you when something new appears, you can make font size bigger for easier reading and more…

If you’re reading web using Google Reader and you want more features, WebReader is an powerful tool for you.

WebReader is written using Adobe Air that mean this tool can run on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Hit the link below for more info and download.

WebReader

More Info & Download

April 1st, 2011 by Tom

If you’re a web designer or you’re looking for a nice menu, button or content box for your website. Webportio is a comprehensive resources for web designer who are using Firework.

Webportio is a website that collects all the resources for webdesign such as navigation bar, buttons, boxes, forms, ribbons, icons and more…

I browsed their site and found that many files are good and well designed and it saved my time.

They claimed that the resources are for Firework but these resources are in .png file which also editable in Photoshop too.

All the files are free to use for commercial and noncommercial usage.

web portio

Webportio.com – free graphic resources

April 1st, 2011 by Tom

Handbrake is a popular videos converting tool for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux and it’s also free download.

If you’re looking for a tool for ripping movie from DVD or you want converting your files for uploading to the web or carry around with your iPhone or iPad.

Supported Sources:

  • Any DVD or Bluray-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image, real DVD or bluray (unencrypted — removal of copy protection is not supported), and some .VOB, .TS and M2TS files
  • Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.

HandBrake is an open source project and free download, this tool support Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Hit the link below for more info and download.

HandBrake

Link : http://handbrake.fr

March 29th, 2011 by Tom

This simple website has many useful guides for all web designer on how to design and organize layers of your design using Photoshop. I found it helpful and want to she it with you.

The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers is a list of helpful and *subtle* suggestions to organize Photoshop Documents, making the transfer of them less painful.

If you’re new to Photoshop and want to learn how to use Photoshop in the right way. This site will give you examples of what you should do or shouldn’t do.

Photoshop Guide For Web Designer

Link : http://photoshopetiquette.com/

March 28th, 2011 by Tom

If you’re writing code, one of a tool that you should have is a code snippet. jCodeCollector is a free code snippet tool that supported more than 25 programming languages and it has many useful features.

jCodeCollector is written with Java and available for free download. jCodeCollector is available for windows, Mac and Linux. Visit the link below for more info and try it yourself.

Link : More Info & Download

jcodeCollector

January 30th, 2011 by Tom

I’m the one who want to create an iPhone app. If you want to learn how to create an iPhone app, I just found 31 very useful simple iPhone’s source code and it’s very great to learn from the source code.

Appsamuck gives away 31 full iPhone apps source code for studying. All the apps are simple and easy to follow. If you want to be an iPhone developer download the code and start learning.

P.S. You need a Mac and Xcode to run the code.

Free 31 iPhone Example Apps

Link : appsamuck.com