Posts Tagged With: tools
· July 30, 2008 at 5:49 am · Online Tools
Tags: crowd sound, feedback, opinions, suggestions, tools, votes, web-dev, widgets
Always looking for a better way to get the thoughts of the crowd, I ran across crowd sound. What is this web site all about? It is less of a web site and more of a tool to help you uniquely gather ideas and suggestions from your followers.
We all like feedback right? Here is how crowd sound works. All you do is sign up for your free account, and then login. Once you do, you can embed the widget into your web site. Just copy and paste some simple JavaScript into your own design.
Now with the web site widget, you can add some entries. and then have other visitors vote up the idea or vote down the idea. So this separates things into the people who want to give you good suggestions and the people who just like to vote for things. You can also via the widget browse through the most recent or the most popular.
I think crowd sound is delivering a very unique way of looking at feedback gathering from your base. Those could be customers, they could be readers. The thing that is important is that you get their views to make your content better.
· July 15, 2008 at 5:19 am · Web Development
Tags: demos, development, features, javascript, meteora, mootools, scripts, tools
The team behind Meteora have set out to do something different and cool. They have launched a lunch box filled with rich and customizable web applications that you can use right here, right now. No pages of documentation to be read, and no need for excessive programing knowledge.
Here are a few more details from the developers:
Meteora is built on top of MooTools and the package comes with a full version of that framework. If you’re already a MooTools user you may read Quick start for mootools users, if you have not used MooTools before just keep reading.
After you have uncompressed Meteora, you’ll notice that it’s around 1.1M in size, this is mainly because of all the images it contains, also because it’s distributed with a full version of the MooTools framework. But do not worry about loading times, with Meteora’s automatic dependency resolution your browser will download only the javascript the page needs and nothing more.
I do have to say, some of this looks even easy enough for me to wrap my head around. These tools would be perfect to slice into your recent project or web page and offer a lot of eye candy and functionality to the mix.
Not convinced yet? Check out the demos to see this powerful set of tools at work.
· July 8, 2008 at 6:52 am · Web Development
Tags: developers, editors, free, open-source, tools, wysiwyg
Not often do you see applications out there aimed less at the users and more at the developers. OpenWYSIWYG is about to change that. They are delivering an open source, cross browser editor they want developers to use.
Some of the features of OpenWYSIWYG include:
- Bold, italicize, or strike text
- Align text: left, center, right, or justify
- Create superscript and subscript
- Indent or outdent text
- Create ordered and unordered lists
- Hyperlink text
- Cut, copy, and paste
- Undo or redo
If your needing a powerful text area in your next Web application you may be developing, here is one piece to the puzzle that is already ready to go at http://www.openwebware.com/.
· July 4, 2008 at 5:22 am · Online Tools
Tags: audio, auditory, migraines, sleep, tools, white noise, zen
Simply Noise is here to fill the void, fill it with a lot of white noise! So what exactly is white noise and why might you need it? According to Wikipedia white noise is…
White noise is a random signal (or process) with a flat power spectral density. In other words, the signal’s power spectral density has equal power in any band, at any centre frequency, having a given bandwidth. White noise is considered analogous to white light which contains all frequencies.
So that answers the what, now how about the why? Here are some of the uses for white noise that are out there:
- Aid Sleep
- Enhance Privacy
- Block Distractions
- Mask Tinnitus
- Configure Audio Equipment
- Soothe Migraines
Getting back to the web site, Simply Noise - all it does is give you an orb to slide back and forth to increase or decrease the white noise they provide. What exactly is the noise they use? Think of it as the static sound you here when there is a TV channel not coming in clearly. All in all - this site does the job in a very simple way. Maybe in the future they can have the white noise come up via a popup window? That way if I needed it I could have it loaded up without having to keep the URL open 24/7.
· June 2, 2008 at 5:40 am · Online Tools
Tags: graphics, image editors, online, photoshop, PSP, tools
Why do it in Photo Shop or Paint Shop Pro when you can do it Online for free? Here are the best (and not so best) of the Online photo or graphic editing tools I could find these days in no specific order.
- Online Photo Tool - great interface, not confusing at all and tons of tools!
- Splashup - all the image editing bells and whistles, including layers!
- Picnik - more aimed at making it “fun”, plus they offer a paid for service too!
- Snipshot - the bookmarklet importing kind of won me over here!
- Pixenate - all the tools right there for you, no registration needed!
- VicImager - needs some polishing, controls are kind of ugly!
- LookWow - basic image manipulation, not too much editing!
- Phixr.com - probably my favorite interface of them all!
- FotoFlexer - tons of things to play with here!
Personally, I wish there were a few more like RoundPic that didn’t do everything fairly well, but instead did one thing really well. Know of anymore resources worthy of being on the list? Drop in a comment and leave your thoughts!
· May 9, 2008 at 5:21 am · Free Hosting
Tags: 2GB, file hosting, filemail, free, online, sharing, tools, upload
You should all know by now I am a glutton when it comes to the free file hosting services out there. I just can’t seem to get enough. The newest service to fill my file sharing gut would be Filemail.com. The actual file uploading and sharing part of the site is very slick looking. You have an e-mail/uploader interface that works well together. Here it is in all it’s glory…
This is the e-mail like interface, that lets you quickly drop in an address and then a message to your buddy your sending the file to.
This second section of the upload interface gives you an easy to understand interface when it comes to setting permissions, limits and uploading the files you wish to share. If you like the service I would suggest that you register - but for those who do not wish to you can send up to 2GB without doing so.
Filemail.com is it a hit or a miss?
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