The Mad Nerd http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com Where the nerds rule! Fri, 15 May 2009 20:01:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 en FavIcon Generator http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?p=37 http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?p=37#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:32:31 +0000 admin http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?p=37 favicon pic gen
Dynamic Drive FavIcon Generator
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

you could also save the image as a bmp in Photoshop then change the extension to ico.

Code to put in your head tag:
<link rel=”icon” href=”favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon” />

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https://www.getdropbox.com/

this tool allows you to upload your files to the web and sync files over Windows, Mac and Linux so no need for a jump drive, right now drop box is still in beta so if you sign up now you get 2Gb of space when it is live you will only get 1GB free you will also be able to pay for more space if you need it up to 40gb or so.

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PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing images on the web.
good tool for browseing google msn and yahoo images without haveing to keep pressing the next button.

Works on
Firefox (Windows, Mac)
Internet Explorer6+ (Windows)
and Safari (Mac)

piclens.com/

]]> http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?feed=rss2&p=32 Add-ons For Web Developers http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?p=31 http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?p=31#comments Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:24:01 +0000 admin http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?p=31 Firefox

Web Developer
Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

Fire Bug
With this add on you can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843

Internet Explorer

IEDevToolBar
The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages.
it is very similar to the web developer add on for firefox but for IE.
ie toolbar

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and that the creator of the site was arrested by FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft)

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I was one of 33,000 who took the survey here is the link to the results.

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/2007surveyresults

]]> http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?feed=rss2&p=29 QT Tab Bar http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?p=25 http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?p=25#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:09:49 +0000 admin http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?p=25 Another Pc program that is very useful could be seen as an add on being that it updates the windows explore. Qt tab bar allows you to see inside of folder with out having to open them you are also able to see previews of your images and text doc by just hovering over them it also add tabs to open windows. subdirtip txt_thumb tab_thumb

http://quizo.at.infoseek.co.jp/freeware/indexEn.html#qttab

]]> http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?feed=rss2&p=25 Adobe Web App’s http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?p=24 http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?p=24#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:35:46 +0000 admin http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?p=24 Adobe web app’s the people at adobe must be bored after the release of cs3 because lately they have been putting out some good stuff has to be free time. buzzword Adobe Buzz Word adobe buzz word is a flash or flex web based word processor. share Adobe Share Beta adobe share bata is a file sharer that always you to share files with out email ]]> http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?feed=rss2&p=24 Web Based Image Resizers http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?p=21 http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?p=21#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:34:27 +0000 admin http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?p=21 Rsizr
Is flash base and one of the best app’s i have ever seen. I recommend spending the time messing around with the features. One of the best features i think is being able the make a landscape portrait keeping the people in proportions but adjusting the background. rsier http://rsizr.com here are a few other image resizers very simple to use good for clients who need to resize images without the need of a image editing program. http://pixenate.com   http://www.picresize.com   http://www.resizeyourimage.com/   http://www.resize2mail.com/   http://resizr.lord-lance.com/ ]]> http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?feed=rss2&p=21 generators http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?p=9 http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?p=9#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:14:14 +0000 admin http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?p=9 yep they have been popping up all over the web and most of them are free and help speed up the web development process here are some of my favorites. Stripe generators   http://www.stripegenerator.com/ stripe generator image http://www.stripemania.com/ stripe mania image both are very easy to use   Tab generator http://www.tabsgenerator.com tab gen Reflection generator http://www.reflectionmaker.com reflection image Button generators   http://www.mycoolbutton.com/ my coo but http://www.buttonator.com/ buttonator Ajax indicator generators   http://www.ajaxload.info/ ajax load http://www.loadinfo.net/ ajax load Text generator   http://www.lipsum.com/ lipsum text ]]> http://themadnerd.aboveideas.com/?feed=rss2&p=9