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10+ Best Free or Open Source Photoshop Alternative Software

April 21, 2011 Tools

Most designers on a tight budget can get an uncontrolled rapid heartbeat by considering what an investment in a Photoshop license will do to their economy. While it is difficult to argue against Photoshop being the top pick for nearly any photo manipulation, non vector design job etc. there are actually some pretty OK alternatives [...]

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12 Excellent Cloud Computing Operating Systems

April 18, 2011 Tools

Cloud is not just a natural form of smoke. It is also the most hyped term in the IT industry right now. Everyone is talking about cloud and vendors all cloudify their products and service offerings. In the area of operating systems this is also happening and a cloud OS is simply a simplified operating [...]

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30 Incredibly Useful Tools to Monitor Your Website Uptime

April 17, 2011 Tools

Website downtime can infuriate us and in some cases do much worse. It can affect user confidence, loyalty and ultimately eat into your bottom line. If you own a website, web server or a blog then you will surely need some tools to monitor your site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as [...]

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10 Sites To Download Any Kind of Developer Cheat Sheet

April 12, 2011 Tools

If you’ve been reading Tripwire Magazine for awhile now, you probably know that we’re always collecting cheat sheets for our dear readers. Some of those are collections of cheat sheets for web developers, for web designers and even cheat sheets for building WordPress Themes. We thought it is time again for another roundup but with [...]

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Tools to Check for Cross-browser Compatibility

March 30, 2011 Tools

Cross-browser refers to the ability for a website, web application, HTML construct or client-side script to render equally across different web browser products and versions. The goal of doing cross-browser testing is to ensure that a website or web application is accessible to the largest possible audience without any loss in usability and performance.  The [...]

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15 Password Management Solutions To Keep You Safe

March 24, 2011 Tools

Password managers can be really essential tools that you can seriously benefit from if you do a lot of sensitive transactions over the Internet. We live at a time when it is possible, and actually commonplace, to do our shopping, banking, communications, and file exchange online. The fact that online transactions have become commonplace has [...]

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Firefox 4 Is Here

March 22, 2011 Tools

Mozilla have worked hard for months getting Firefox 4 out and we have been through 10 beta releases and a release candidate to finally get here. This latest fresh browser breed should be faster and come with a new, improved and more streamlined interface.

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30 Online Tools for website Validation, Cross Browser and Testing

March 17, 2011 Tools

Validation is a process where we check out the data against a standard or requirement. And if we come across the website validation phenomena then it becomes very important to verify the quality and correctness of web page code. Before launching any new website we should not overlook the check and test process for a [...]

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20+ Powerful Online Presentation Tools

March 15, 2011 Tools

Online presentations are considered as one of the effective marketing and communication tools. Publishing value-added content on variety of presentation websites can help you in keeping your clients informed, updated, and aware of information that is important to them. It also provides a platform to reach out to your target audience by increasing brand loyalty [...]

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50 User Interface Design Tools A Web Designer Must Have

March 10, 2011 Tools

The success of web applications and websites depends in how well designed the User Interface is. Designing a good user interface however is a very challenging process. A designer’s concepts and design decisions always affect the end users of the web site, application or generally any user interface or service he has designed. That is [...]

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