Hands down this is the best twitter client – Spreadtweet by Elliott Kember. Why? It looks like excel – so you can hide your tweeting habit from your boss. Although I don’t think this would really work for designers. How often do we touch excel? haha.
Jay from Warm Forest has put together some quick code to save you some hair pulling when your designing animations in Flash. Check out Simple Sanity-Saving Tip for All Timeline-Based Flash Projects.
The solution is simple but I can almost guarantee that once you use this trick you will start using it every single time you are working with a timeline. The trick is to add keyboard arrow controls to the movie.
Designer Benek Lisefski recently launched a photography, travel, flash, photo sharing, etc. application called FotoMaps.
He wants the design community to give it a spin and let him know what you think. If you’re interested, I gave it test run on my blog.
Our fearless leader @collis twittered about this a few days ago, but I think its worth repeating. Feedcompare helps you gauge your Feedburner stats vs other websites. A great way to track the progress and popularity of your blog against others in the same genre.
Have you ever wondered how often your website (or your clients websites) go down? Its usually the clients complaining about this, but now you can have the upper hand! Chris Coyier (the css-tricks guy!) released Are My Sites Up? a few months ago that monitors your websites and notifies you (via email, sms, twitter) if they go down. The site even has a companion iPhone app! This service has saved my butt a time or two – so go check it out!
Web Design Ledger cooks up an great list of the 14 Most Useful Web Design Cheat Sheets. You’ll find everything from Adobe shortcuts to CSS guides.
Creattica reader Jason Ritz sent us this link to Tweetizen. It’s a web-based tool for filtering tweets that interest you by tags and keywords. In the future they are also planning on adding the ability to embed your custom groups into your blog.
Wow…check out this super useful css organizing tool called Style Neat.
Style Neat organizes and standardizes your CSS – selectors, sub-selectors and properties – in a structure that makes it easier to define page areas and see how they relate to each other.
I know there are a lot of gallery sites out there, but this one is a bit different. Check out CSSiPhone.com – a gallery of websites optimized for the iPhone. Talk about sleek sexy interfaces! Oh my!
Web Developer Nick Sergeant sent us in this link to Snipt, a site for sharing your bits of code. Snipt is a collection of frequently used commands or code snippets including css, javascript, ruby, and more.