del.icio.us bookmarks for April 24th through November 25th
These are my links for April 24th through November 25th:
- 15 Must-Have Bookmarklets For Web Designers And Developers -
- AVA7 Patterns – Free seamless background patterns. You can preview before you download.
- 35 Useful Source Code Editors Reviewed | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine – an overview of 35 established or rather unknown ? but useful source code-editors
- 25 WYSIWYG Editors Reviewed | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine – an overview of both useful and deprecated WYSIWYG-editors
- ยป This is How You Get sIFR to Work | Design Intellection – The goal of this tutorial is to distill the information at the official site for sIFR into a simple step-by-step process of how to implement sIFR on your site.
- Make a Footer Stick to the Bottom of the Page – There are several ways to make a footer stick to the bottom of a page using CSS. But until now, they’ve used long and messy hacks or a lot of extra HTML markup; this method uses only 15 lines of CSS and hardly any HTML markup.
1Password — Buy 1, Get 1 Free
1Password is easily one of my favourite Mac utilities, and from now until November 30th, you can send a free license to a friend who hasn’t discovered the simple joys of crossbrowser password management.
If you’re an existing license holder, go to http://agile.ws/gift/thanksgiving and submit your information. If you’re not a customer, go to http://agile.ws/store?d=Thanksgiving and purchase a copy of the software. You’ll get a free copy to send to a friend plus you’ll get 15% off your purchase.
For a reader out there who doesn’t have a license but wants one, be the first to leave a comment and I’ll gift a license to you.
UPDATE: Agile Web Solutions has increased the number of free licenses we can give away, so I have two more I can send out. Leave a comment if you’d like a free copy of 1Password. First come, first serve.
Download “The Art & Science of CSS” for Free
For 14 days, Sitepoint is offering a free download of one of its recent books: The Art & Science of CSS by Jonathan Snook, Steve Smith, Jina Bolton, Cameron Adams, and David Johnson. To get your free copy, you can either follow @sitepointdotcom on Twitter or, if (like me) you’re not on Twitter, you can register your email at http://twitaway.aws.sitepoint.com/.
(Or, if you don’t want to register your email, you may be able to grab the book directly from Sitepoint here.)
Also, check out the celebrity interviews I did with Jonathan Snook and Cameron Adams.
Tools of the Trade: DebugBar
It’s been a long time since I featured a Windows program here, but this one is definitely worth looking at. DebugBar is similar to the Firebug extension for Firefox, except that it works with Internet Explorer.
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More Mac Software Deals: Give Good Food to Your Mac
In case you’re in a software shopping mood today, here’s another way for Macheads to spend some money: Give Good Food to Your Mac. For the next 9 days or so (until Dec 1, 2008) you can create your own software bundle from nearly 70 Mac apps, receiving a discount once you’ve put together at least three. You can save up to 50% on your purchase if you buy five or more apps.
Unlike MacHeist, which often gets berated, Give Good Food to Your Mac seems more about the promoted than the promoters. And, because there are so many apps to choose from, you can put together your perfect bundle and save some money at the same time.
The current Top 10 apps (I’m assuming that means top 10 with the most sales thus far) are:
- Bee Docs Timeline – 3D Edition
- HoudahSpot
- ShareTool
- Hydra 1.6 + Aperture plug-in
- MacPilot3
- Kameleon
- Blue Crab
- Voice Candy
- Today
- SplitFuse 2.2
Get VMWare Fusion for 25% Off
I recently listed VMWare Fusion as one of the best software purchases I’ve made in the last year, and now it’s on sale for 25% off until November 30, 2008. Use the coupon code FusionRocks to get the deal.
Choosy
Ok, so everyone has already posted about Choosy, but just in case you’re not subscribed to everyone else…
Choosy adds a preference pane to OS X that allows you to override the “Default Browser” setting on your Mac and lets you open links in whatever web browser you want. So, for example, if you have both Safari and Firefox open and someone sends you a link in an email, you can click on the link and Choosy will ask you which browser you want to use to view the link. If you didn’t have Choosy, the link would open in whichever browser you had set as the default.
I’m already finding this really handy, as my default browser is Safari but I use Firefox when I’m coding and testing sites. With Choosy, I can open all email links in Firefox so that I don’t have to keep switching browsers. And if Firefox is my only open browser, Choosy will display links in Firefox automatically without me having to choose. Awesome!
Choosy is currently in beta. The beta is free to download; the full version will be shareware with a discount for beta users who register their email on the Choosy site.
My Best and Worst Software Purchases from the Past Year
Ok, it’s maybe a bit early to start this kind of list — 2009 is still a month and a half away, after all. However, this has been nagging at me for some time, and being the software junkie that I am, I thought I should share my favourite (and least favourite) app purchases since switching to the Mac just over a year ago.
Updated (November 17, 2008): Added to my honourable mentions.
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Coda 1.6 Released, Featuring Coda Plug-Ins
Panic has released Coda 1.6. This updated version features a number of bug fixes and improvements, the chief among them being the new Coda plug-ins. The plug-ins, which can be written in any common scripting language or Cocoa, allow you to extend Coda’s text editing functionality. For example:
you could write a plug-in to insert the current date and time into your document, change the case of selected text, run code through a custom validator, or even wrap code with a special tag.
Coda plug-ins are similar to TextMate’s Commands. In fact, you can even import TextMate Commands using the Coda Plug-In Creator.
Coda 1.6 is a free upgrade for Coda 1.x owners. To learn more about Coda plug-ins, check out the Coda Developer Zone.
Today Only: Save 25% on Your Next Basecamp Bill Without Upgrading
If you’re interested in Basecamp, the 37Signals project management webapp, they’re currently offering a 25% discount off new sign-ups and upgrades today only (Nov. 4, 2008) until midnight Eastern Standard time. Enter the coupon code VOTE to get the deal.
If you’re an existing Basecamp customer, and DON’T want to upgrade your account, you can still get 25% off your next bill. Simply choose to upgrade your account, enter the VOTE promo code, then downgrade your plan to what it was — the discount should still be in place.
The 25% off is for one bill only, as far as I can tell, but applies to all of 37Signals’ products.