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16 Aug 09

WeFollow
Visit the site here, add yourself here. This site is neatly organized by tags with each area showing the top users for that category
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- Twellow
- it’s best to register with them so that you can update your profile as well as create an extended biography
- Visit the site here, add yourself here
- They have a large variety of categories
- Loaded Web
- Visit the site here, add yourself here. This is a location based directory. You can currently see users in the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.
- Just Tweet It
- Visit the site here, add yourself here. Another directory with a large range of categories to add yourself to
- TweetFind
- Visit the site here, add yourself here
- not only allows you to view Twitter users by category but also by rank.
- You can also view and keep up with Twitter trends
- Mr. Tweet
- Visit the site here, add yourself here
- Mr. Tweets looks through your current Twitter relationships to suggest compatible followers. It also will suggest you to other Mr. Tweet users who are similar.
- TwitR – Very similar to WeFollow. Add yourself here.
  
  Tweeple Pages – Organized by interests. Add yourself here.
  
  My Twitter Directory – The Twitter yellow pages. Add yourself here.
  
  NearYoo – Adds Twitter users to a map. Follow @nearyoo to try it out.

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How To Translate Your Tweets

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Twinslator
llowing you to write a tweet, translate it into another language and (optionally) post both messages.
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- TweetTranslate and Tweetrans offer similar services, while TwitTrans offers to manually translate your Tweets in one hour, resulting in a much better translation than a machine could achieve.

BackTweets, averigua quiénes comparten tus posts en Twitter

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BackTweets, una herramienta que te permite hacer búsquedas de los tweets que tengan enlaces hacia nuestros posts.
Sólo tenemos que ingresar la URL que queremos analizar,
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- se encarga de “traducir” las direcciones acortadas
- También pueden generar alertas para que el sistema les avise por mail

Tweeting from the web? 9 alternative web clients

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almost 50% of Twitter users, prefer to tweet directly from Twitter.com
most heavy Twitter users agree that Twitter.com is actually the poorest user experience among the plethora of alternative web applications to access the service.
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- the Power Twitter Add-on
- Web Seesmic
- navigate through your list of friends, choose your favorite layout
- monitor all of your tweet activities in one place and in real-time
- The retweet/direct messages should be visual and accessible via one click only
- the design is just too minimalistic
- the font is way too small
- it lacks two significant features: The trend list
- as well as a twitpic/yfrog integration
- PeopleBrowsr
- See all of your tweetstream, your mentions, DMs, search-based keywords, create groups, manage multi accounts from one dashboard, use a to-do list with quick tags, integrate with all your social networks, RSS import, map view, and tons of other features
- has a light version that is more reasonable to use
- lets you create channels based on your query
- TwitHive
- search and also new updates opens in a different layer, and column creation takes time,
- integration of Google News and Blog Search
- Splitweet
- allows you to compose a list of accounts and distribute tweets to more than just one account
- You can also follow your contacts’ tweets from all of your managed accounts
- Each account gets its own color
- TweetTabs
- the easiest way to track trends on Twitter
- you can run a keyword search and it will automatically add it as a new column
- There’s no registration whatsoever, and if you want to reply or retweet someone else’s tweet, you’ll be redirect to your own Twitter profile
- Monitter allows you to track what most matters to you on Twitter without the need to sign up or in
- ability to grab a real-time twitter stream widget for your site, with the option to customise the CSS
- Tweenky
- the first service that enables real time tweets from the web
- The list of activities and trends are accessible always, and the main stream is easy to adjust to
- Tweetree
- embeds external content so you get to see pictures, videos and even the text from submitted links right in your twitterstream
- TwitZap is not half bad for a layer that sits on top of Twitter site
- it lets you organize your favorite channels, then it shows you how many updates you missed when you’re not on the channel
- it shows you who are the people that are viewing the same channel right now
- The page refreshes in real time
- TwitZap is the winner
- Twitter web clients are weak compared to the desktop ones.

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30 Jul 09

eft off the list are common tools most designers are likely already using (like Dreamweaver or Panic’s Coda, Photoshop or GIMP, and similar common software programs
Offline Tools
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- Graphics tablets (also sometimes referred to as drawing tablets, graphics pads, or digitizing tablets)
- Most tablets consist of two basic parts: the tablet itself and the pen (or stylus). Many also come with a puck (which works similarly to a mouse
- The main consideration for the tablet is size, while the pen’s main consideration is pressure-sensitivity
- sizes ranging from about 4″ x 5″ up to 19″ x 13″. Of course, the larger the tablet, the more expensive it will be
- smaller tablets are more portable
- Common sensitivities range from 256 levels of pressure up to 2,048 levels. The higher the sensitivity level, the more it will feel like you’re actually using a pen and paper.
- Wacom
- Aiptek
- UC-Logic
- Mood boards (also called inspiration boards)
- Mood boards often take the form of a collage that includes design elements for the project. Examples of elements included might be typography samples, color schemes, specific graphic examples, or general “mood” elements that reflect the designer’s vision
- article on Why Mood Boards Matter
- a video tutorial called Creating An Effective Mood Board.
- Flickr has an Inspiration Boards pool that collects mood and inspiration board images from across multiple design disciplines
- Online Tools
- Typography Tools
- Typetester
  
  Typetester lets you compare up to three fonts side by side.
  
  You can select any font from your own computer or use fonts from their menu of common system fonts and web-safe fonts. It also allows you to change the color, leading, tracking, size, and other style options.
- CSS Type Set
  
  CSS Type Set lets you paste any text you want to modify into one box, adjust sliders and choose other formatting options, and then copy the generated CSS.
  
  It’s a quick and easy way to format any text you need, from paragraphs to head tags.
  
  Options include text color, leading, tracking, baseline shift, text decorations, alignment, and more.
- Better CSS Font Stacks
- In addition to offering guidelines for creating your own font stacks, this article also provides a wide variety of sample stacks you can use
- HTML-Ipsum
- Most standard Lorem Ipsum generators online give you a block of text and nothing more
- But HTML-Ipsum gives you text that’s already been marked up with basic HTML tags (paragraph, head, unordered lists, etc.) so you can see how all the different elements interact with one another
- PXtoEm.com
  
  PXtoEM.com does exactly what it says: it converts pixel-sized fonts into em-sized fonts.
- Typechart
  
  Typechart lets you browse a variety of web-safe fonts and view how they’ll look on both Windows and Mac systems.
  
  You can find fonts based on size, whether they’re serif or sans-serif, or emphasis.
- you can copy and paste the CSS for each style without leaving the page
- Flipping Typical
  
  Flipping Typical lets you view the common fonts you have on your computer in a grid format
- CSS Tools
- While most of these tools do a great job at cleaning up your CSS, make sure you always keep a backup of your original and test the final product generated
- CSS SuperScrub
  
  CSS SuperScrub aims to significantly reduce the complexity and size of your style sheets.
- Code Beautifier
  
  Code Beautifier optimizes and cleans up your CSS files.
- CSS Drive
  
  CSS Drive is a basic CSS compressor.
- CSS Redundancy Checker
- goes through your style sheet and each of your HTML pages to see which selectors aren’t being used, and then removes them
- CSS Property Index
  
  The CSS Property Index lists every CSS property alphabetically.
  
  Clicking on any of the included properties brings you to a definition and information about the default value, allowed values, and whether it inherits from a parent property.
- CSS Shorthand Guide
  
  Using shorthand CSS properties makes your CSS files smaller than using longhand properties.
- Color Tools
- Colorblind Web Page Filter
- Find Matching Colors for Your Website
  
  This color palette tool finds colors that coordinate with any color you select.
- Color Palette Generator
  
  Photos are great places to look for design inspiration. This tool can create a color palette from any image you choose (just input the image’s URL).
- Kuler
- browse or search more than 10,000 color palettes submitted by Kuler users and then download or save your favorites for later reference
- COLOURlovers
  
  COLOURlovers is another great color scheme gallery.
  
  You can search more than 800,000 color schemes
- make sure you contact the copyright owner of the pattern if you want to use one for commercial work.
- 100 Random Colors 2.0
- Individual Element Tools
- Wufoo
  
  Wufoo is an HTML form builder that offers more than 80 form templates and color schemes while also allowing you full control to create custom forms for your clients.
- Submitted forms are automatically collected in a database that makes it simple for your clients to print, email individual entries, filter, search, and perform other advanced functions
- integrate with Authorize.net, PayPal or Google Checkout.
- BgPatterns
  
  BgPatterns lets you create tiled patterns using a wide variety of different repeating elements.
- Stripe Generator 2.0
- ffers stripes at a variety of angles, in just about any width you choose, with or without shadows and gradients, and using any hex colors you want
- Tartan Maker
- Select the yarn size, the colors for your pattern and the angle and it creates it automatically.
- Pixelknete’s Background Dotter
  
  This background generator creates a modern dotted background with progressively smaller dots as they move down the page.
- As Button Generator
- Add text, different gradients, stripes, images, and more to your buttons.
- You can select the button and border colors, the overall size (using sliders or text fields) and the border thickness, and how rounded the button is.
- Button Maker
  
  This button generator lets you easily create two-tone 80×15 pixel buttons.
- AJAX and JavaScript Tools
- Ajaxload
  
  Ajaxload is a generator to create Ajax loader icons. There are a ton of different icons to choose from.
  
  All you have to do is set the foreground and background colors (or choose a transparent background) and then just download the generated script.
- Mini AJAX
  
  Mini Ajax is a gallery of downloadable Ajax and DHTML scripts.
  
  It includes everything from modal windows to slideshows to more advanced scripts (like calendars and entire project management tools).
- There are demos available for a lot of the scripts and all of them are downloadable from their original sources.
- MooTools
  
  MooTools is an Object-Oriented JavaScript framework
- jQuery
  
  jQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies a variety of JavaScript functions.
  
  One of the best parts of this particular tool, though, are the number of plugins already available for jQuery.
- Script.aculo.us
  
  Script.aculo.us is a JavaScript user interface library that includes an animation framework, Ajax controls, DOM utilities and more.
- Online JavaScript Compression Tool
  
  Compressing your JavaScript files makes them load faster, eat up less of your bandwidth, and take up less space on your server.
- JavaScript Beautifier
- to get neat, clean, consistently-formatted scripts that are easier to read and edit later.
- BrowserShots
- BrowserShots shows you screenshots of only the browsers you’ve chosen to view, so you can choose as many or as few as you want
- you can just bookmark the page and come back later to see your results.
- Firebug
- makes debugging and editing your code (whether it’s JavaScript, CSS, or HTML) infinitely easier.
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