Free Traffic Tips

Firefox’s ‘MeasureIt’ is useful and very easy to use.

It places a small ruler icon at the left side of your status bar and when you click on the icon you get a crosshair cursor and your browsing  page fades out.  MOve over to the desired area or object you want to measure and drag out a box over it – the width and height of the box will be displayed in pixels close to the box.  To get out of MeasureIt, use the Escape key and the page reverts back to normal.

Simple.  And that suits me fine.

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Some months back on Tool Time Friday, you were afforded the chance to get ‘parts’ of Adobe Photoshop for nada.

Now you can get the whole enchilada for nothing.  Zero. Zilch.

Here’s some info from the press release:

“The maker of the popular photo-editing software Photoshop on Thursday launched a basic version available for free online.

“While Photoshop is designed for trained professionals, Adobe says Photoshop Express, which it launched in a ‘beta’ test version, is easier to learn.  User comments will be taken into account for future upgrades.”

So go shoping – Photoshoping.

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Let’s get to it.

This Firefox add-on is probably the most important web development tool as it allows you to browse and tweak HTML, CSS and JavaScript on a desired web page and preview changes on the fly and so much more.

Get it here.

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Tabbed browsing in Firefox lets you load web pages in separate tabs of a single browser window, so you can jump between them quickly and easily.

Cool!

Perhaps your reading a news story or visiting a blog and you want to follow an interesting link without loosing your place in the original story.  With this tool you can do this without filling your desktop with new, unorganized browser windows.

You gotta check this one out!

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Good morning you happy people!

Okay, here’s the deal.

I don’t know how I got along without this add-on from FireFox.

Cooliris previews, gives you the ability to browse and share web links and media faster. Just put  your mouse over any link, and Presto! – you’ll be able to preview the content without opening it in a different window, or click on it to open it in the same window you’re in.

You can even email it with one simple click.  And there’s so much more.

Here you go!

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When it comes to icons, web designers and graphic artists have an excellent opportunity to showcase their craft, prove their experience and explore their creativity. A sweet, nice icon set is a perfect showcase of designer’s work and a powerful instrument to build up your reputation online.

Here’s 35 incredible free icon set which you can use for your web designs or your desktop to spice up your posts with some nice illustrations or enrich your desktop with outstanding dock icons. Some of the listed icons can be used in web designs, some of them are supposed to be primarily for desktop. So hopefully everybody will find something useful.

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If you haven’t been stopping by Tool Time Friday then you’re missing the boat.

In one of last Friday’s comments, ‘Writing Advice” turned us all on to a wonderful tool.

It’s called Jott. That’s it and nothing more.

Here’s a snippet of what they have to say:

“We talk an awful lot about hands free texting while driving, but as I just learned this morning thanks to Engadget’s investigative reporting, injuries occurring from texting while walking are on the rise. They are working hard to combat this issue in London by padding lamp posts.

Who needs to look down while they text? Only the people thumbing out those messages. We might not have the cure for UK texters (yet!), but for U.S. and Canadian texters, Jott is an easier, cheaper, and let’s admit it, more aesthetically pleasing way to prevent walking into a lamp post while texting. Keep those heads up Jotters, you are once again ahead of the safety curve.”

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