Entries Tagged as 'geekfindr'
GeekFinder: ExpanDrive, your SFTP filesystem
A week or two ago I came across Gruber’s review of ExpanDrive and their most recent version. This badboy of an app lets your Mac OS X machine mount sftp servers as filesystems giving you, effectively, local access to those files. I had seen this before but the previous version left those .DS_Store files all [...]
GeekFinder: xScope 2.0
I’ve talked about icon factory’s xScope before. I liked it. xScope just informed me by way of an automatic update that 2.0 is out and they’ve added a new feature. Dimensions. Can I just say. I love it?
For the most part the only thing I ever used xScope for was rules - finding measurements. And [...]
GeekFindr: Acorn, Lightweight Image Editor
Every now and again I need to do a little image editing - typically this involves firing up Photoshop and doing what needs to be done and what needs to be done is super basic stuff, resizing, cropping, compositing and the occasional unsharp mask. Photoshop is waay overkill for this and it takes a little [...]
Categories: geekfindr
GeekFindr: Finding out which font it is
It happens, on occasion, that you come across an image with text that you need to figure out what font was used. Was that sentence even in english? Anyways, your resident font guru is away and you’re left to your own devices. What to do? What to do??
Well, the good folks at MyFonts.com have [...]
Categories: design · geekfindr · typography
GeekFindr: RoundPic
There comes a time in every web2.0ers life where corners must be rounded. In an old GeekFindr we discussed CurvyCorners which allows you to round your divs (more or less) very easily if not incredibly efficiently. Now comes RoundPic which helps you round your images.
It’s a super simple tool that allows you to upload an [...]
Categories: design · geekfindr · web service · web2.0
GeekFindr: CSS Builder and the CSS Reference
If you’re like me, which I am, you have a bad memory for remembering every css option there is. You know there’s a bunch of list-types but darned if you can remember lower-roman and decimal. So it’s off to Google for you and a little searching finally turns up all the options you’re looking for. [...]
GeekFindr: VectorMagic
There comes a time in everyone’s life where one has to shrink an image that doesn’t look very good when you’re done. Case in point, this links post I did awhile ago where I posted a line drawing of an archer. The original was sizeable so I needed to shrink it. Pushing that bad boy [...]
GeekFindr: WASP - seeing web beacons
Scott pointed this one out to me a bit ago - WASP, the Web Analytics Solution Profiler. It’s a Firefox extension that gives you a sidebar showing you info about the various analytics beacons on the page you’re currently looking at.
If you’re building an big website, it’s useful as an easy sanity check to make [...]
GeekFindr: YSlow, find out what’s slowing down your site
Scott pointed out YSlow to me some weeks ago and I’ve been using it every now and again. It’s a Firebug extension that grades you on how well you follow Yahoo’s 13 Rules for a High Performance Website.
Once you’ve added YSlow in you go to the site you want to profile and turn on Firebug [...]
Categories: geekfindr · optimization · yahoo
GeekFindr: XRAY, peeping on the box model
Thanks to Scott for pointing this one out to me. XRAY is a really nice tool that very quickly can show you the box model for various elements on a site. It works as a bookmarklet, right now it’s Safari and Firefox (or other Mozilla based browsers) only, Mac and Windows, though. It doesn’t work [...]
