Our Favorite Firefox 2 Add-Ons
The Swiss Army knife for web developers:
Web Developer Toolbar
FTP inside the browser:
FireFTP
Save embedded objects like Flash:
Download Embedded
Save videos from sites like YouTube:
Fast Video Downloader
View the cookies for a web site:
View Cookies
Switch the user-agent (Firefox, Netscape, IE, Opera, etc.) for the browser:
User Agent Switcher
Something tasty for the artist in you.
300 dpi internet coming soon?
Daniel Jalkut has an excellent blog which describes a computing world where the user selects the resolution - no longer being bound to the 72 dpi world. Vector graphics are already found all over the Macintosh OS and Microsoft Vista, so why wouldn't the web also need to upgrade? To me, this is the real web 2.0 - a true world of blended vector and raster graphics. They could call it "RV" :-)
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Nuggets of wisdom
ReBrand is a relatively new web site with a great mission that revolves around 'starting over'. Starting over with your corporate culture, your point of sales contacts and your brand. They're worth a visit for any one in the branding game, and below is a brief abstract of some of their best 'how to' for 2006.
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Bad web site hurts brick-and-mortar retailers
Gomez, an Internet performance tracking company, shows that many consumers who have had a bad online experience with their retailer are punishing the actual stores by not going as frequently, or tying up store personnel with questions about the site.
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It Goes to Eleven...
In the never-ending debate over how 'hot' web and multimedia designers are in their respective country's labor markets, there are no definitive answers. We've been the hottest kids on the block with plenty of slaps on the back, to the spurned drop-out who no one in the family thinks "will add up to anything." Are we making a comeback?
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Blue Duck Tavern Launches
Congratulations to Blue Duck Tavern on their new web site. Blue Duck Tavern is located in the Park Hyatt Washington D.C. and boasts a lineup of some of the world's most renowned chefs.
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Are we ready for the Web Science Research Initiative?
The Internet has completely changed the way the world lives. And the changes are not over. How society will morph as we become more and more connected and exposed to more and more applications that do what we want them to is anybody's guess. And that's a bad thing.
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ThickBox - Someplace you should know
I don't have the energy to discuss this intelligently (or maybe i don't have the brains), but it's someplace you should go and hear it all from the horse's mouth. Does it give you any ideas?