Ease of use of multiple palettes
New Colorpicker with HEX Value Input
Select from 147 Color Names
Pick Color From Existing Palettes
Saturated Color Mode
Undo/Redo Last 20 Steps
and much more…
Pete Cashmore has posted about the 30+ AJAX-Powered WordPress Plugins that he things are good.
He has split-up the plugins into two categories, for the blogger, and for the reader which includes:
Blogger
- AjaxWP – Adds AJAX to all aspects of your WordPress site speeding up the load times.
- Alexa Rank – Display your Alexa rank with pride.
- Ajax Comment Preview – Allows readers to preview their comment before submitting.
- asTunes – Retrieves data from your Audioscrobbler/last.fm profile and posts it as a list on your blog.
- Codebox – Side scrolling box for displaying code snippets.
Reader
- AJAX Comments 2.0 – Auto updates the comments page with no full reload, much smoother commenting than the older full reload system.
- AJAX Google Video Search – Search Google Video without having to leave your favorite blog.
- AJAX Shoutbox – Realtime conversation with sound to alert of new messages.
- Cool Weather – Allows visitors to see the weather forecast for any area they define.
- Currency Converter – Adds a real time currency converter to the page with data pulled from Yahoo Finance.
- Google AJAX Search – Allows you to set search for just the contents of your site and the web, or another option allows for search of a second site such as your Flickr account.
[via Ajaxian]
As promised, London-based Moo has released a new sticker product this morning. $10 plus shipping gets you 90 small but high quality vinyl stickers, and each can be a different image if you like.
If you want to try this out, we have something cool for you. The first 100 people to place an order through the link below get a free order, with free shipping. After 100 orders, you have to pay the $10, but the shipping is free:
Update: Free Moo Stickers From TechCrunch still offer free shipping for july.
[via TechCrunch]
Stupid Name, Cool Brushes. Site says beta, but i think its just common place anymore to put that on your logo just incase your site flops.
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If you are looking for a free vector site check out their sister site Vecteezy.com
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Pixel Groovy is a tutorial directory where members decide which tutorials should be published. It's a system that leads to keeping the quality of the tutorials high. The site covers Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Cinema 4D and 3D Studio Max, as well as many web development areas, such as programming and site management. Site owner Devin recently launched a new and improved version of Pixel Groovy.
[link Pixel Groovy]
A subtle little addition has been made to the Google AJAX Feed API:
The AJAX Feed API makes it easy to display RSS and Atom feeds on any web page. Unfortunately, its not always quite as easy to find the feed URL of the feed that you wanted. To help with discovering and finding feeds, today we launched two additional methods. The new findFeeds() method searches for feeds based on a simple query. The new lookupFeed() method accepts a url and then returns to you the primary feed associated with that URL. We have put together some nice samples (findFeeds sample, lookupFeed sample) to get you started.
[via Ajaxian]
Kevin Miller is at it again, this time with an accordion component that likes it both ways…. horizontal and vertical.
Another accordion I hear you cry? This is what Kevin says to that:
Haha! Like there was one. Well there was, but only for Rico and a bloated one by mootools, that’s right I said bloated, live with it. For some reason there wasn’t one for scriptaculous but now there is. The why is pretty simple, just like every other library, I had a need for it. Hope you can get some use out of it.
UK-based Moo, a startup that prints “mini cards” from photos and other images that you upload directly or point them to via Flickr, Bebo, or their other partners, has been a real hit among the early adopter, silicon valley crowd. People hand them out like crazy, and they are great, if somewhat expensive, conversation starters.
Next week the company will expand beyond cards and into stickers, which I predict will be even more popular than the cards. Look for them on July 19 on the Moo site.
The stickers, which will be high quality vinyl, will be sold in batches of 90 for $10. And this is cool – every single one of those 90 stickers can be a different image (just like the cards).
Moo, which raised $5 million from Atlas Venture and Index Ventures in April 2006, has sold “several million cards” to customers in 143 countries – including North Korea.
We’ll be giving away some free orders for stickers on the day of launch. Check back then for details.
[via TechCrunch]
ThumbStrips is a Firefox plugin that records a filmstrip of screenshots.
The plugin comes from Intuit’s Innovation Lab, an Intuit R&D unit headed by former General Manager of Quicken Roy Rosin.
ThumbStrips records a filmstrip of a users browsing session to make it easy to return to and share pages a user has visited. The plugin was developed after observing people struggling with the back button and history lists. A sharing component supports collaborative search or people doing research projects, trying to share with each other where they’ve been and what they found there.
The fairly new plugin has been downloaded 20,000 times so far.
The issue of remembering a site you’ve visited hours ago, since closed, and then is needed again is fairly regular occurrence, at least for me. ThumbStrips is a clever idea that provides an easy way of accessing a browser’s history.
[via TechCrunch]





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