Download Squadhttp://www.downloadsquad.comDownload Squadhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/media/feedlogo.gifDownload Squadhttp://www.downloadsquad.comen-usCopyright 2008 Blogsmith, LLC. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only.Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/Grab Color Palettes From Your Current Page In Firefoxhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/15/grab-color-palettes-from-your-current-page-in-firefox/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/15/grab-color-palettes-from-your-current-page-in-firefox/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/15/grab-color-palettes-from-your-current-page-in-firefox/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,



Design inspiration can come from a lot of different places. If you find yours from digital sources on the web, Palette Grabber for Firefox might be incredibly useful to you.

Install it, and Palette Grabber sits in the left corner of your status bar waiting to leap into action. A single click (right or left) exports a selective palette based on your current page in Firefox. Palette selection is very intelligent, producing accurate swatch sets for each of the websites I sampled.

Palette Grabber supports several file formats, including Photoshop, Flash, Fireworks, PaintShop Pro, the GIMP, and Mac OS X Color Picker. Minimalists and power users can elect to save a tabbed text listing of RGB values.

For a 25k download, Palette Grabber is definitely worth adding to your Firefox install if you do any digital design work.
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]]>color palettecolor swatchColorPalettecolorsColorSwatchdesignGIMPpalettephotoshopLee Mathews2008-08-15T09:00:00+00:00Try out an "old photo" effect that works like magichttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/08/try-out-an-old-photo-effect-that-works-like-magic/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/08/try-out-an-old-photo-effect-that-works-like-magic/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/08/try-out-an-old-photo-effect-that-works-like-magic/#commentsFiled under: ,

Although I don't read Japanese, I know how to use Google Translator well enough to tell you about this awesome photo effect at Wanokoto Labs. There are plenty of tutorials out there about how to create an "old photo" effect in Photoshop, but this site does it for you in one step.

The effect basically seems to desaturate the image, add some grain, and smudge it up. This results in something like an old newspaper photo. In case you have trouble with the Japanese -- and you probably won't, the layout is pretty intuitive -- the upload feature is the blue tab on the left, and the URL feature is on the right. To activate, click the button below the address of your photo.

UPDATE: Hey, look at that. Once again, the readers are way sharper than I am. There's an English button in the corner. I'm not sure how I missed that, but thanks to John and Chris for pointing it out.
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]]>Japanesenewspaperold photoOldPhotophoto effectsPhotoEffectswanokotoJay Hathaway2008-08-08T13:00:00+00:00Google is slowly killing Page Creator, replacing it with Siteshttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/03/google-is-slowly-killing-page-creator-replacing-it-with-sites/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/03/google-is-slowly-killing-page-creator-replacing-it-with-sites/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/03/google-is-slowly-killing-page-creator-replacing-it-with-sites/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

Google Page Creator dies
Google has stopped accepting new users for Google Page Creator, the company's online web site creation tool. Current users can continue using Google Pages, but the company wants new users to sign up for Google Sites instead.

Google Sites is a web site/wiki creator that Google launched a year after purchasing Jotspot. Sites allows you to create editable pages, embed videos, calendars, and documents. Later this year, Google will transition all web sites made with the Google Page Creator over to Google Sites.

Google Page Creator was never as easy to use as it should have been and I honestly don't know too many people who used it to build web pages. So I don't expect many people to cry over its loss. But there is at least one potential problem. If anyone's ever posted a link to your files at yourname.googlepages.com, that link could break later this year, because Google Sits uses a different URL structure. Hopefully Google will offer existing users the chance to transition to the new service while keeping their existing URLs.

[via Digital Inspiration]
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]]>google-page-creatorgoogle-sitesBrad Linder2008-08-03T10:00:00+00:00Blow up those thumbnails the fancy way with FancyZoomhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/02/blow-up-those-thumbnails-the-fancy-way-with-fancyzoom/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/02/blow-up-those-thumbnails-the-fancy-way-with-fancyzoom/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/02/blow-up-those-thumbnails-the-fancy-way-with-fancyzoom/#commentsFiled under: , ,

If your site uses thumbnail images, but you're still opening a separate tab or a separate window to show the larger version, you need to see this: FancyZoom is a little bit of Javascript used by Cabel Sasser on both his personal site and the Panic website, to zoom images inline. Cabel describes the effect as "Mac-like," which is about as accurate a description as you can get. It feels like it should be part of Safari, but it works just fine in other browsers, too.

FancyZoom is a more compact alternative to other zooming effects you might be familiar with, like Lightbox or That Thing Apple Uses on Apple.com. It can be added to a site using only 2 lines of HTML, and it doesn't require any additional libraries. You can also use FancyZoom on a text link to an image, instead of a thumbnail, which could definitely come in handy for some blog layouts we've seen.

[via JoshSpear]
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]]>cabel sasserCabelSasserFancyZoomimagesJavascriptPanicthumbnailszoomJay Hathaway2008-08-02T11:00:00+00:00Fontspace Offers Free Social Font Downloadshttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/22/fontspace-offers-free-social-font-downloads/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/22/fontspace-offers-free-social-font-downloads/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/22/fontspace-offers-free-social-font-downloads/#commentsFiled under: , ,

We love free fonts, but sometimes the process of finding half-decent ones can be pretty annoying. Fontspace.com tries to smooth out the rough spots for free font junkies.

Instead of simply categorizing fonts, Fontspace uses the good ol' tagging system - which provides easier access to similar fonts. The broad categories on some other sites (sorry DaFont) often lead to large, tiresome lists that require a boatload of time to sift through.

Registered users can also add fonts to their favorites ; thi can be extremely useful in the event that someone - your husband , for example - accidentally forgets to back up your fonts before a reformat.
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]]>fontfontsfreetypefacetypefacesLee Mathews2008-07-22T18:00:00+00:00Speechable enters the speech bubble warshttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/22/the-bubble-wars/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/22/the-bubble-wars/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/22/the-bubble-wars/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Speechable image

Speechable understands that a picture is worth a thousand words, and thus a picture with words must be worth exponentially more.

Speechable provides a simple method to adding speech bubbles to your photos. Just upload a photo, select one or more speech bubbles, and place them wherever you like. You can resize both the text and the bubble to better fit the picture. When you are done adding bubbles, you are given links to add the photo to your blog, website, or email it to a friend.

We could find few differences between Speechable and Kyolo: a similar service that we recently reviewed. Most notably the use of rectangular bubbles instead of elliptical. We can't help but think that the first service to add multiple bubble shapes will win the war.
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]]>image editingImageEditingphoto editingPhotoEditingspeech bubbleSpeechBubbleAlan Silcott2008-07-22T16:30:00+00:00Flipping the Linux switch: Linux web tools - Pt. 6http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/18/flipping-the-linux-switch-linux-web-tools-pt-6/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/18/flipping-the-linux-switch-linux-web-tools-pt-6/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/18/flipping-the-linux-switch-linux-web-tools-pt-6/#commentsFiled under: , , , , ,

Small image map example with my skype avatarHave you ever looked in a real DIYers toolbox? Or maybe even the toolbox of someone who's pretty handy, but who has a messy streak? So all the hammers might be together, or all the screwdrivers will be together, maybe even with some sort of arrangement as to Phillips or Torx heads... but there is almost inevitably, in some corner compartment of the toolbox, or some drawer (and maybe several of them, even) an area set aside for what amounts to a whole lot of miscellaneous "everything" bits. These pieces might logically be found with hammers, or dry wall tools, or about a million other things... But they aren't quite the same, and they aren't always used in the same manner. So they end up in a big pile, that you hope stays manageable enough you can find them again.

This week's Linux switch, the last of the web development stuff for a bit, is like that compartment. These are all nifty little tools, and great when you need them. But they are mostly small, and have a strange distinction of not always being associated with any one particular type of task.

Some, like FTP programs and plugins, are associated with other programs. But what if you love your editor and hate the uploading functions it has? Image maps can be a nuisance to set up, and we think that's probably part of the reason why you don't see a lot of them. But sometimes, they just fit the project at hand.

And you know how we said we'd go easy on the editors? Seriously, we meant it. However, there's one more editing tool we want to mention that's probably beyond most casual users, but will make Linux users who want to develop SWF9 applications pretty happy. We are not covering it in any great depth, because we are not any sort of whizzes with Flash development -- but we have to point it out. It's been a long time coming!

So welcome to our odds and ends compartment of web tools!

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]]>filezillaflashftpftp-clientimage mapImageMapkimagemapeditorlinuxlinux-switchopen sourceopenlaszloOpenSourceKristin Shoemaker2008-07-18T18:00:00+00:00IrfanView 4.20 released, gets a minor facelifthttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/18/irfanview-4-20-released-gets-a-minor-facelift/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/18/irfanview-4-20-released-gets-a-minor-facelift/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/18/irfanview-4-20-released-gets-a-minor-facelift/#commentsFiled under: , ,

IrfanView 4.20
IrfanView is a light-weight, but powerful Windows tool for viewing and editing pictures. Version 4.20 is out, and it has a slightly new design, a bunch of bug fixes, and some new features.

At its heart, IrfanView is an image viewer with some editing functions thrown in for good measure. Nobody will mistake it for PhotoShop anytime soon. But you'd be surprised just how much you can do with this free utility.

First of all, IrfanView can handle pretty much any image file type you throw at it. But second, it includes a ton of basic options for editing images, including cropping, resizing, rotating, and applying effects like sharpen, blur, and red eye reduction. Version 4.20 includes a ton of updates, including improved relative zoom, an "auto crop borders" feature which removes outside lines of the same color, and a shiny new icon set.
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]]>image-editingimage-viewerirfanviewirfanview-4.20Brad Linder2008-07-18T13:00:00+00:00Google Docs introduces template galleryhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/18/google-docs-introduces-template-gallery/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/18/google-docs-introduces-template-gallery/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/18/google-docs-introduces-template-gallery/#commentsFiled under: , , , , ,

A lot of desktop word processing and text editing apps feature templates you can use to jazz up your documents -- or make them look terrible, depending on your opinion. Now Google Docs gives you the same option, with a new template gallery. There are over 300 templates, featuring everything from resumés to cards to calendars.

The selection of different templates is impressively versatile. Expense reports, presentations, invitations -- it's all there. Styles range from minimal (basic blue bars) to ostentatious (robots!). Something that immediately struck us as clever is the selection the Avery Dennison-sponsored themes, so you can print to those Avery labels and business cards that every office seems to be up to its ears in. If you use templates in your desktop writing app of choice, you'll probably also find a use for them in Google docs. Although the designs are hit or miss, there are enough of them that you should be able to find what you're looking for.

[via Lifehacker]
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]]>designdocumentsGoogle DocsGoogleDocstemplatesJay Hathaway2008-07-18T10:00:00+00:00Add sound effects to your next projecthttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/16/add-sound-effects-to-your-next-project/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/16/add-sound-effects-to-your-next-project/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/16/add-sound-effects-to-your-next-project/#commentsFiled under: ,

If you're a web designer or someone that deals with audio or video, you know how important having the right sound effect is to your production. Sound effects should be given the same amount of thought and care as the other parts of your project. But if you're not in the business of sound, where do you go? You go to soundsnap.

Soundsnap is all about high quality, member created sound effects. With effects ranging from animals to transportation, you're bound to find something that will complement your own creation.

Using soundsnap is easy, either type in a search term or browse via the categories on the front page. Soundsnap also lets you audition the files prior to downloading. Sound effects are available in either mp3, wav or aiff audio formats to fit your production needs.

According to soundsnap, most of the members creating sound effects are either industry professionals or hobbyist. This may explain why we found most of the samples of high quality.

So if you're looking for that effect that will put your production ahead of the rest you may want to check out soundsnap.

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]]>audiodesignsound effectsSoundEffectsJoey Celis2008-07-16T12:00:00+00:00Get help making tiled backgrounds for your websitehttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/13/get-help-making-tiled-backgrounds-for-your-website/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/13/get-help-making-tiled-backgrounds-for-your-website/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/13/get-help-making-tiled-backgrounds-for-your-website/#commentsFiled under: , ,

If you ever wanted to make a tiled background pattern for your desktop or website but lacked the design expertise to create one, bgpatterns has you covered.

The site is very straight forward and easy to use. Start off by selecting the foreground and background color for your design, followed by the texture of your canvas. Once you have that dialed in you're ready for the next step which is selecting the image you want tiled.

After you've selected your image click the "apply background" link and the site's background will change so you can see if you like your design. If you're satisfied with the results you're free to download it or save it to your "My patterns" account.

While bgpatterns offers a number of stock images, it does lacks the option to upload your own custom image. Hopefully the developers will add this option in the future as the selection of images are rather "clip artish".

So if you've been looking at making a skull themed background for your MySpace page bgpatterns is ready for you!

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]]>backgroundimageswebsite designWebsiteDesignJoey Celis2008-07-13T14:00:00+00:00Flipping the Linux switch: Linux web tools, Pt. 5 - Readers love editinghttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/11/flipping-the-linux-switch-linux-web-tools-pt-5-readers-love/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/11/flipping-the-linux-switch-linux-web-tools-pt-5-readers-love/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/11/flipping-the-linux-switch-linux-web-tools-pt-5-readers-love/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

Komodo EditSeriously guys, we love you. Okay, fine, maybe not in the way your mom loves you, or your dog loves you, or your significant other loves you. But we definitely love you in that totally uncomfortable, care-free, "Hey, let us buy you a Red Bull and Pop Rocks next time we're at the convenience store" sort of way.

We don't just love you for your looks, or your superior intelligence, or because you can totally creep out little kids with that thing you do with your left eye. We will even go so far as to say the fact that you use Linux doesn't play into it one bit.

We love you because your suggestions rock. We scour the web ourselves daily, but you know, it's a big place, and we just can't know every single bit of software or tech goodness out there. We think it's way cool when we get suggestions from readers about applications for Linux (or Windows, or Mac, or Palm...) because you aren't only cluing us in on applications we may not be familiar with, but a lot of you are avid users, and can vouch that the application you are suggesting really works for every day use.

This week, we think it's only appropriate to wrap up the editors section of our Linux web tools discussion with a couple of reader suggested gems. So a big thanks to Tim for suggesting we look at Komodo Edit and kingkool68 for pointing us towards Aptana.

Gallery: FtLS Komodo and Aptana

Komodo Start ScreenCommon Komodo LanguagesKomodo Languages are UncommonKomodo displays it allKomodo suggests tags

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]]>aptanacodecodingeditorsjavajrekomodokomodo editKomodoEditlinuxlinux-switchKristin Shoemaker2008-07-11T18:00:00+00:00Multicolr Search Lab: color search for Flickrhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/10/multicolr-search-lab-color-search-for-flickr/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/10/multicolr-search-lab-color-search-for-flickr/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/10/multicolr-search-lab-color-search-for-flickr/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

Multicolr Search lab
Flickr has hundreds of millions of photos, and extensive search functions to help you get to the ones you want. But Flickr users, being acreative, discerning bunch, need even more search types. Searching by color is particularly useful for designers, and Multicolr Search Lab, from Idée Inc., delivers it elegantly.

Multicolr searches over 3 million of Flickr's "interesting" images, delivering results that match the colors you specify. It's fast, returning results almost instantly when we tested it out. It's also powerful, able to match up to 10 colors at once. Multicolr is already a designer's dream. Just add a Creative-Commons-only checkbox, and it would be practically perfect.

[via ReadWriteWeb]
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]]>designFlickrIdeeimageMulticolrphotosearchJay Hathaway2008-07-10T10:00:00+00:00It's all bubble talkhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/09/its-all-bubble-talk/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/09/its-all-bubble-talk/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/09/its-all-bubble-talk/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

Speech bubbles are great way to add commentary to pictures. To do this just fire up a graphic program like Photoshop, import your photo, make a new layer, select a shape, draw a shape, create another layer, select the text tool, type what you want, move it around and then save it. In the mean time, that fantastic comment that you wanted to share has gone passé. Of course you could have avoided all this nonsense by using Kyolo.

Kyolo has just one purpose in life, to place speech bubbles on your pictures. There are no layers or strokes here, just upload your photo, choose from 3 different speech bubbles and type away. It couldn't be any simpler.

But for those wanting just a little more control over their bubbles you can certainly rotate the bubbles and increase or decrease the font sizing.

Once you are happy with your artistic creation you can choose to save the photo locally or email it off to your friends to spread a little sunshine to their otherwise dreary day.
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]]>bubblegraphicgraphicsphotosJoey Celis2008-07-09T19:00:00+00:00Edit this page: Useless but fun bookmarklet lets you edit any web sitehttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/08/edit-this-page-useless-but-fun-bookmarklet-lets-you-edit-any-we/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/08/edit-this-page-useless-but-fun-bookmarklet-lets-you-edit-any-we/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/08/edit-this-page-useless-but-fun-bookmarklet-lets-you-edit-any-we/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Edit this page
Ever have the urge to change a headline or rewrite the text of a web site? Edit this page is a browser bookmarklet that makes any web page instantly editable. Well, kind of. Here's how it works. Drag this bookmarklet to your bookmark toolbar. When you're on a page you'd like to rearrange, just hit the bookmarklet and you can edit any text area.

Of course, nobody else will see the edits you've made unless you take a screenshot and share it with the world. But in completely unrelated news we are particularly proud of the distinction Time Magazine gave us earlier this year, so we thought we'd share that with you.

[via Digital Inspiration and Techzilo]
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]]>bookmarkletedit-this-pageweb-designBrad Linder2008-07-08T18:00:00+00:00She's a Brick.....Smith - Lego Modeling for your Machttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/08/shes-a-brick-smith-lego-modeling-for-your-mac/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/08/shes-a-brick-smith-lego-modeling-for-your-mac/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/08/shes-a-brick-smith-lego-modeling-for-your-mac/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

BricksmithWho doesn't like Legos?

Bricksmith brings Lego building to your Mac. And in a big way. Sorry PC folks, Mac only.

When we say a big way, we mean this isn't just a drag and drop of lego parts, this is full modeling. You don't have to have a degree to do it, but you definitely have to have some time on your hands....but the payoff could be awesomesauce.

This sucker is like Photoshop for lego designs.

You have thousands of parts to choose from, some of which we've never seen in our lego pails.

There's a full color palette, copy/paste/undo, drag and drop modeling and more.

Best part is, you don't have to step on them in your bare feet in the middle of the night!

We used it for 5 minutes and it hurt our heads, but we bet you can come up with something great. Take a screenshot and put the link to it in the comments.

[via chris pirillo]
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]]>bricksmithdesignlegosmodelingDrew Olanoff2008-07-08T16:30:00+00:00jGrowl: Growl-like notifications in your browser windowhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/08/jgrowl-growl-like-notifications-in-your-browser-window/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/08/jgrowl-growl-like-notifications-in-your-browser-window/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/08/jgrowl-growl-like-notifications-in-your-browser-window/#commentsFiled under: , ,

A lot of OS X users are familiar with Growl, a customizable notification system with all kinds of uses. New e-mail, iTunes track changes, new instant messages -- Growl handles all of this stuff. Now there's a Growl-like jQuery plugin called jGrowl that lets you apply the same sort of notification in your browser window.

jGrowl supports different animation settings, as well as sticky messages that need to be clicked to close. The styling appears to be done with CSS, so plenty of customization should be available. If you're looking for a way to notify that's not obtrusive and doesn't require a pop-up window that steals attention from your site, give jGrowl a try.
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]]>cssGrowljgrowljquerynotificationJay Hathaway2008-07-08T08:30:00+00:00Graphita - the non-complicated online image editor.http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/07/graphita-the-non-complicated-online-image-editor/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/07/graphita-the-non-complicated-online-image-editor/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/07/graphita-the-non-complicated-online-image-editor/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Unlike most online photo editing sites, Graphita doesn't give you ways to adjust the levels, white and black balance or saturation. Instead Graphita gives you stamps to "fun up" your photos. We were scratching our head at first as well. Why on earth would you not include the most basic tools for editing a photo? But the answer became apparent as we delved deeper into the site.

On most online photo sites your project ends pretty much the same way with you either downloading the photo or sharing it online. But Graphita did something different, by also letting you put your photos on mugs, mouse pads, shirts and a whole lot of other things that will either clutter up your home or your friends.

By teaming up with QOOP, the transition from one service to the next is fairly transparent. Once you're done placing witty captions or "slippery when wet" signs on your picture, simply select the Order Prints button and your image will be taken to the QOOP site where you can paste it on basically anything they carry.

So instead of trying to be a serious tool for photo editing, Graphita takes a more lighthearted approach. Upload a photo, add a caption or two and send it off to be printed... as a luggage tag.

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]]>designgreeting-cardsphotosJoey Celis2008-07-07T15:00:00+00:00Get an interesting view with TiltViewerhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/07/get-an-interesting-view-with-tiltviewer/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/07/get-an-interesting-view-with-tiltviewer/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/07/get-an-interesting-view-with-tiltviewer/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Tiltviewer is a very slick way to present your photos online. Generally photos are presented in a slide show presentation where photos are displayed one after the other. But unlike a typical slide show Tiltviewer presents your photos in an almost 3D like grid allowing people the freedom to glide around your photos.

In order to use Tiltviewer you will have to download the code and place it on your website. But once properly configured it gives your photos a very modern interface and backdrop. You can zoom into each photo, move around a 3D like space and even click on each photo for more information about it.

We wouldn't recommend Tiltviewer to everyone because of the installation process. But if you are pretty good a following directions and know your way around a few lines of code then you should definitely give Titlviewer a try.

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]]>photosslideshowJoey Celis2008-07-07T11:30:00+00:00Flipping the Linux switch: Linux web tools, Pt.4 - HTML editors for every moodhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/03/flipping-the-linux-switch-linux-web-tools-pt-4-html-editors/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/03/flipping-the-linux-switch-linux-web-tools-pt-4-html-editors/http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/07/03/flipping-the-linux-switch-linux-web-tools-pt-4-html-editors/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

Amaya split view smallMaybe you've taken some time and fooled around a bit with Quanta Plus and Bluefish and decided that they weren't for you. Maybe you just looked at the features, and the GUIs and thought, "I'd rather pluck my nose hairs out than use those."

That's okay. We're not about to pass judgment on your taste in HTML editors, or your strange penchant for self-inflicted pain. And while we may never use the tweezers in your house, we will gladly point you in the direction of alternative HTML editors.

This week we'll take a look at Screem and Amaya in brief. These two editors are frequently found in distribution repositories (and are also, of course, available as source code). Both of these editors have a very different take on what their users hope to accomplish with them. We hope at least a few have earned your badges of dorkdom, and are presently happily pondering the irony of applications that do the same thing to reach different ends.

Whether you like the idea of handcoding growing the hair on your chest (as opposed to your nostrils), the moral highground of browsing and coding with standards compliance, we've got you covered.

Next week, we'll take a closer look at our final two editors, suggested by our noble readers at the beginning of the series.

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]]>amayahtmlhtml editorsHtmlEditorslinuxlinux-switchscreemwebKristin Shoemaker2008-07-03T18:00:00+00:00