June 21st, 2008 by kip0130
Adobe Air is a Cross operating system runtime that can harness a developers existing Flash, AJAX , HTML skills to make and deploy rich internet applications and deliver them to your desktop. I recently became quite interested in this technology and found some great tools for the everyday designer , coder , SEO professional and the average site owner.
Adobe Kuler
Bringing the Feature filled application Kuler by Adobe to your desktop it certainly brings ease of use to the table , I can now find , download and share palettes without opening Firefox. You can get it here.
Analytics Reporting Suite
The Analytics Reporting Suite by Nico is a great tool. I think it may be better than the web version. With almost if not all the features the web based version has it certainly is more convenient than going online during the day. You can grab the tool here
Desktop Color Finder
The Desktop Color Finder is an application that browses Colour Lovers palette library.
You can find it here
Snippley
Snippley is a Simple Feature full application - Kind of. It allows you to store your snippets of code in a convienent place according to category. You can find it here
WebSnapshot
WebSnapshot is exactly what the name says…. It takes snapshots of websites.
you can get it here
In actuality Adobe AIR is very useful and has great potential to be the next cross platform thing.
Since I’ve recently started using AIR what applications are you using? Any that you can recomend? If any good ones are mentioned i will add a list on this post. Please do give the URL where it can be found.
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June 18th, 2008 by kip0130
Recently on Rawkes there was a post about “8 Killer Web Development Apps for OS X: Guaranteed to Save You Time and Money“. After reading the article it left me thinking. Are there any quality development apps for Window PC’s. So i set out to look through what i have used in the past and now to appeal to the masses ; The beginning developer , the average developer , and the “Knowledgeable” ones too.
Here’s the list
- Simple CSS
- XAMPP
- Measure It
- E Text Editor
- Style Master
- Notepad++
- Colorpic
Simple CSS
Simple Css is a great little application from the folks at Hostm.com It is more aimed at the beginners to CSS as it allows you to pic from a list of common elements and style them with ease , you can also make your own just as easily. The application is free so it’s worth checking out.
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March 5th, 2008 by kip0130
Recently in part one I discussed the rules of using colors and typography together. I touched grounds on what not to do such as color combintaions. I also told you all about the problems with colors and print and how they don’t always come out as planned. In this section I am going to talk about printing type, sizing , line-height’s and how to use them correctly.
Size matters
When designing print media or a website you want to with what looks best. On the web thats a lot harder as your limited to web safe fonts without using an alternate methods. But you can make your fonts work with your designs without sacrificing readability,and accessibility. For some reason i noticed that font sizes keep getting smaller, and smaller as the trends continue to go on. I am glad to say i haven’t noticed this trend in print media (lucky us).on the web font size is everything. you may think having a font size of 9/10px is cool but think about the users with bad eyes or small screens. As i mentioned in part one hierarchy makes your design. Substitute that 10px font for a nice 12-13px font and use the 10px font for your captions.
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