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Xobni Organizes Your Outlook Email

As a web designer and coder, I collect tons of emails and attachments from clients that have to be carefully tracked and easily found. And many projects have three, four, or more people attached. Often... 
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Cool Search Engines That Are Not Google But Still Useful

“How do you find a new search engine if all you know is Google? Typing “search engine” into the usual box might lead you to Microsoft’s newly launched Bing, the combined search at Dogpile,... 
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(Mostly) Free Website Monitoring Tools

Recently came across two articles about free website monitoring tools, Top 10 Free Website Uptime Monitoring Services, from Design Live, and 12 Excellent Free Tools for Monitoring Your Sites Uptime, from... 
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View Your Web Pages in Multiple Versions of Internet Explorer Browsers

“How many times have you had to debug your web pages on virtual or multiple machines running different versions of Internet Explorer? Or had to wait for a slow web service to return renderings of... 
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Grade Your Website

“Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical... 
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Inexpensive Usability Testing for Your Website

UserTesting.com provides usability testing for your site for $19/test. Their sample for Travelocity is interesting (not least because I really want to visit Waikiki). The tester talks their way through... 
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Share Your Favorite Screen Designs, See Other Favorites

Scrnshots.com is an online community where designers can share interesting and beautiful designs. What a great idea. Search by date, tags, domains, and users. This is a great resource for designers in... 
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Search Engine Optimization X-Ray Tool

“This tool [SEO for Firefox Extension] was designed to add more data to Google and Yahoo! to make it easier to evaluate the value and competitive nature of a market. SEO for Firefox pulls in many... 
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Website Monitoring and Support Software

The other day, I pointed out a website monitoring service that I found, WatchMouse. I’ve since found these competitors:HyperSpin Pingdom Montastic ScoutAppHow would you use these services? If... 
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PHP, MySQL, Apache, PHPMyAdmin for Windows in One Easy Install

Anyone who has tried to install these four key open source software tools on a Windows computer realizes the value of this headline. Yes, it is true. The Firepages.com.au website has a mysterious owner... 
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The Travel Guide You (and Others) Write

World66 offers travel information on over 10,000 destinations. 50,000 articles written and updated by travelers. Their website is open content – you can edit the information yourself. That bar in... 
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Macromedia Contribute

When my smaller clients ask me if they should buy Dreamweaver to maintain their sites, I tell them that at $149 USD Macromedia Contribute 3.0 probably is the best low-cost content management tool anyone... 
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Find The Perfect Word

RhymeZone is not only a great way to find the perfect word when writing copy, it also can search for words based on parts of words, as well as by synonym and other features. They also link to quotations,... 
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Style Navigation Links, No Javascript

Can you take a simple list of navigation links and use different Cascading Style Sheets to create radically different list options? The Listamatic shows the power of CSS when applied to one simple list... 
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Encrypt Email Addresses on Websites

Reading websites you may have noticed odd spellings of email addresses, for example “joe at mycompany.com.” Why not //= 0; i--){ if (l[i].substring(0, 1) == ' ') document.write("&#"+unescape(l[i].substring(1))+";"); else... 
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Name That Font

You’ve probably seen this ad. Can you name the font? Phenix American is the font name. What The Font?! is a free online service that lets you upload an image, lets you decide what parts of the image... 
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Edit Content With Web Pages

HTML Area (version 3.0 rc1) is a free, open source utility that you can use to turn any web page HTML text area box into a WYSIWYG editor like Word. Instead of teaching clients basic HTML to format content,... 
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Scan Online News Faster

Bloglines is a free website that lets you find and organize content published by a variety of websites and news sources. No more clicking browser bookmarks, or forgetting URLs. Instead you quickly scan... 
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Color Picking for Non-Designers and Designers

Color Schemer is a neat software tool ($49 USD) that helps anyone develop colors that work well together for any project. Match colors, find harmonies, and learn about color theory. You begin with a single... 
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Base Camp: Painless Project Management

This online project management software just announced a new $9 USD/month rate to manage up to 3 projects with their service. That’s in addition to their free service (1 project at a time) and other... 
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