Wednesday, March 28, 2007

HTML Playground - XHTML and CSS

Here is a handy refrence site for XHTML and CSS. It lets you select the code you are intrested it, tells you what it does and then shows you it in action. You even see the code behind what shows.

Rather handy I do say.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Your PC, your friend.

Monoslideshow

I came across a really nice slideshow tool at: http://www.monoslideshow.com. You can do some very cool things with this slideshow, it is small in size, and runs smoothly.

Another great tool that I have been using is JAlbum from: http://jalbum.net/. This program installs on your computer and creates albums for you to post to the web, I've been using them on my family's site at http://www.acksjay.com (see the links on the right side).

Friday, March 09, 2007

Download from YouTube

Ever seen a video on YouTube that you really really wanted? Visit http://vixy.net/ to convert and download that video to your favorite format!

Crimson Editor

Located at http://www.crimsoneditor.com is one of my favorite editors for, well, just about anything. It is smart, it is lightweight, and best of all it is FREE!!!

Crimson Editor offers:
  • Syntax Highlighting for HTML, C/C++, Perl, Java, Matlab and LaTeX. Also, it can be extended for other programming languages based on custom syntax files.
  • Multi-level undo / redo - all editing actions are recorded from the opening of a file. - any document always can be undone to it's initial contents. - unlimited undo and redo buffers.
  • Project management - manage group of related files into one project. - remote files also can be included in a project.Directory tree view window - click to open documents. - filter to display only selected file class.
  • and more, a complete list can be seen on their website.

The program is small enough to fit on a floppy disk yet powerful enough to be the only editor you may ever need! One negative is that it is not visual based, you have to enter your code but you can set up the program to have special commands run on your code (like compile and run) which can make your job easier.

I've always liked Crimson Editor and it does a great job with Java and HTML. I cannot speak to the other languages but I am sure it is just as great when you are working with them.

Thursday, March 08, 2007

The greatest website ever!

Doesn't everyone remember their favorite Apple games? Play them here: http://www.virtualapple.org/