Of course, you can use Google Reader offline with Gears or by using Google Chrome, but have a look at this new project called ReadAir.

ReadAir, a project still in development and can be downloaded from Google Code, provides an easy way to access your Google Reader RSS feeds on your desktop. It focuses on getting your feeds to you when you want it. You won’t have the extra social aspects like sharing and commenting on articles, but it is a great way to quickly read over your feeds from your desktop. (via)

Links
Download ReadAir (version 0.31)
Download Adobe AIR

Labels: adobe, air, desktop, rss, software_tips, software_tools

Klok is a lightweight and cross-platform tracking solution. You can create a hierarchy of projects and sub-projects in the task-management sidebar and then track the time spent on each by dragging and dropping them into the workflow for the day. While you can delve into the details of each block of time, simple adjustments like expanding the amount of time you've worked on a project is as easy as grabbing the edge of the block with your mouse and tugging it down.

related
Paymo online web based solution used for employee time tracking, with a desktop sync
Listing: Open Source Ticket Tracker Software

Labels: adobe, air, flash, software_tips, software_tools, tracking

Netwaves is proud to present its "Kopiefeest" or "Copy feast" sampler. It's a compilation of recent netlabel delikatessen. We'd like to thank all the artists who share their creative works with the universe.
The Copy feast is a three day event (24-25-26 sep. 2009) about copyright.



Oe Eo (5.47 MB) - Imaabs
Space Fucker (7.87 MB) - Ixtlan

Dubber's Delight 2009 (12 MB) - Funk Sinatra
Drive My Car (7.82 MB) - Merlune & Daakoon
Thursday Morning Waking (7.86 MB) - After The Ice
General Store (6.50 MB) - The Gruff

Le Voyage De Leo (5.41 MB) - Echo Lali
a bali na bega (6.59 MB) - XYDZO
Even If (6.68 MB) - Apes on Tapes
Percal (11 MB) - La Nueva Guardia

Funkagent 1 (11 MB) - Sliptone
Snow White Theme (12 MB) - Shaun Blezard
carcrash (8.57 MB) - brunk
Rainy Day Renegade (9.92 MB) - Cycle Hiccups

Mississippi Kite (9.81 MB) - Amanyth
Notte Di Luna (6.46 MB) - Mou
23rd Theme (17 MB) - Valis
Kyoto Melody (8.01 MB) - Orquestra Popular De Paio Pires

Link: Kopiefeest 24 - 25 - 26 september 2009

Labels: audio, netlabels, software_tips

Brizzly is a way to view content from the social web. Right now, you can view enhanced content from Twitter in a clear, simple way. We plan to include other social media as soon as we can.

brizzly lets you manage more twitter account and dissolves any short url into the original one; nice feature ;)

link: Brizzly

Labels: social_software, software_tips, software_tools, twitter, web_apps

First, visit the Twistory site and enter in your Twitter username. Then you will be redirected to a page where you can subscribe to your tweet calendar in any one of a few different formats.

Twitter doesn't make more than your last 3000 tweets archived or searchable. But you can go store them going forward using Twistory and Google Calendar.

I had signed up for Twistory way back in late 2007 and added it to Google Calendar. However, I had forgotten all about it since I had that calendar hidden from the default view. I was delighted today when while tinkering that all of my tweets since have been archived! Here's how you can do the same for yours, at least going forward.

via [steverubel]

Labels: google, software_tips, software_tools, twitter

while i was searching for the stablest php framework, which could be Kohana, i found useful tools to analyse your page perfomance and make our web faster!

below is a list of popular tools, which can do this. found via google code

Web page analysis

AOL Page Test

Open source tool for measuring and analyzing web page performance using Internet Explorer.

IBM Page Detailer

Graphical tool that assesses web page performance and provides details include the timing, size, and identity of each item in a page.

Microsoft VRTA

Tool that visualizes web page download, identifies areas for performance improvements, and recommends solutions.

MySpace Performance Tracker

Internet Explorer browser plugin that helps improve web page performance by capturing and measuring possible bottlenecks.

Yahoo! YSlow

Firefox/Firebug Add-on that analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance, based on a set of rules for high performance web pages.

Resource optimization

CSS Sprite Generator

Generates a CSS sprite out of a number of images.

Smush It

Online tool that allows you to upload images for lossless compression and optimization. Provides a report of bytes saved and downloads a zip file containing the optimized versions of the files.

SpriteMe!

Tool that determines background images to sprite, groups and sprites them, and generates resultant modified CSS.

JSLint

Tool that looks for code quality problems in JavaScript programs.

JSMin

Filter which removes comments and unnecessary whitespace from JavaScript files.

YUI Compressor

JavaScript minifier designed to yield a higher compression ratio than other tools.

Web debugging

Fiddler 2

Web debugging proxy which logs all HTTP/S traffic between your computer and the Internet. Inspect HTTP/S traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data.

Firebug

Firefox Add-on that lets you edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

HttpWatch

HTTP viewer and debugger integrated with IE and Firefox to provide HTTP/S monitoring without leaving the browser window.

Performance benchmarking

httperf

Tool for generating HTTP workloads and measuring web server performance, and constructing micro- and macro-level benchmarks.

mon.itor.us

Provides a personalized Ajax dashboard interface, checks server performance and availability, generates uptime reports, tracks visitors, checks CPU, memory and other systems resources, and alerts when it detects abnormalities.

Pylot

Open source tool for testing the performance and scalability of web services. It runs HTTP load tests, verifies server responses, and produces reports with metrics.

Wbox

Performs various tests, including page load benchmarking, web server and web application stress testing, and verifies correct configuration of virtual domains configuration, redirects, and HTTP compression.

Development

Cuzillion

Tool for quickly constructing web pages to see how components interact and how behavior differs across browsers, sometimes in unexpected ways. Also lets you share sample pages with others.

Hammerhead

Firebug Add-on for measuring the load time of web pages.

OOCSS

Development environment and framework for creating fast, reusable CSS objects and modules.

PHP profiling

Xdebug

Extension for PHP that provides profiling and code coverage analysis, as well as debugging information including stack and function traces, and memory allocation.

XHProf by Facebook

Instrumentation-based hierarchical profiler for PHP.

Labels: browser, html, software_tips, software_tools, web_development

ok, alot of blog cms already contain this feature, but now......also Blogger does it:

With Jump Breaks you can show just a snippet of your post on your blog's index page. Blogger will insert a "Read more" link to the full post page where your readers can keep reading.

Link: http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/09/you-might-as-well-jump.html



This is one of many features announced as part of Blogger's 10th birthday. Happy Birthday!

Labels: blog, cms, html, software_tips

Timely to our new CSS Fonts Modul (@font-face) we can create own custom handwriting font, for free.

If you've got a few minutes, a printer and a scanner, FontCapture can turn your handwriting into a font.

Link: http://www.fontcapture.com/

Labels: inspiration, software_tips, software_tools, web_design