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Sunday, December 20th, 2009
This post is all about reducing the amount of abnormal memory that Firefox uses.Typical memory usage of Firefox reported on Windows OS is around 50MB-100MB depending on number or quality of active plug-ins or themes. But Firefox memory usage depends on your hardware. If abnormal memory usage of Firefox is important for you and you’re [...]
in Design, Firefox, Flash, Java, PHP
Friday, December 18th, 2009
I use Firebug constantly to easily edit a website’s CSS so I can fine tune a design or make adjustments, so when it stopped working, so did I. Everytime I would try to live-edit a site’s CSS it would give me “Failed to load source for: <whatever css=”” file=””>“. I tweeted about it a bit [...]
By: Dustin Brewer in CSS, Design, Firefox, Google
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Maybe you’ve seen a lot of free Icons so far. But you know most of them are just free to personal use and if you’re making some commercial products like premium WordPress themes, most of the free icons you’ve seen are not free to commercial use.
I was setting up my toolkit for designing some premium [...]
in Design, Firefox, Google Chrome, PHP, Wordpress
Monday, September 14th, 2009
Assuming that you’re smarter than the average bear when it comes to computer savvy, allow me to introduce you to a Firefox add-on that saves time and simplifies life. It’s called iMacros, and once you start using this addition, you begin to wonder how you got along without it before. [...]
in Design, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Programming, SEO
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
One aspect of Photoshop that is outstanding is its ability to correct flaws in photographs. The number of flaws ranges from red eyes, to grainy images or exposure problems. Whatever it is, it can be annoying if after a wedding event or if during a holiday you thought your camera had captured that amazing shot [...]
By: Stephen Davies in Design, Firefox, Graphics, Photoshop
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
If you’re a Firefox user (and you should be), you need to know about a now-refined Labs tool from Mozilla that makes Firefox web browsing essentially more human. Mozilla calls it “an experiment into connected the Web with language,” and we think that sounds so boring and platonic. Although [...]
in Design, Firefox, Google, Java, PHP
Friday, August 21st, 2009
Since SEO became a core element of any web site campaign, and bloggers started to crop up from all over the world, tools to help content providers have just kept coming. When it comes to social networking, nothing maintains a blog with quality content more than discussions on a variety [...]
By: Stephen Davies in Design, Firefox, Google, SEO, WebMaster, Wordpress, XML
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
How would you like a vortex effect that can be used on your web page, poster or eBook cover? A vortex effect can be created in a variety of cool ways using Photoshop’s standard filter controls.
Adobe Premiere is also a good choice as there is a Vortex plug-in for [...]
By: Stephen Davies in Design, Firefox, Photoshop
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Some text effects on images can really make that subtle change more noticeable. It’s certainly true when it comes to creating a logo as you want your logo to stand out on the page. Branding, top features and new information page elements are reasons to use headings that stand out. While [...]
By: Stephen Davies in CSS, Design, Photoshop
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
There are actually many more ways to optimize your PHP code, though from tests, these are the top 10 that you should not omit from any PHP project. It’s important to optimize your scripts to reduce loading times locally, load times on servers and for a general balance between the PHP [...]
in Database, Design, Firefox, PHP