CSS Cleanup Tool

This is a website that you can use to both format and optimize your css code. It can expand code so you can read and edit it or reduce your code to reduce size and increase performance. When optimizing it can even rewrite commands into the shorthand version, which is particularly nice.

http://www.cleancss.com

robots.txt Resource

I found this really good website for information about managing website crawlers using a robot.txt file (and meta tags). Really nice website with great information.

http://www.robotstxt.org

Command Line Reference

Came across this on digg today. It is another reference sheet for common Linux/Unix commands and programs. It has a lot of good common uses of good programs like scp, rsync, svn, psql and mysql.

http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml

Living Library

This site is collection of free ebooks that are entirely written and maintained by the general public. It is an interesting ideas and some the books I perused through were quite well developed. Two nice things about this site is that all of the books are under a GNU license and a lot of the complete works offer pdf downloads (which is great for printing and taking the document with you).

It have texts on everything from language learning, to cookbooks, to children's books. It is a part of the Wikimedia Foundation (which is best known for its Wikipedia project).

http://www.wikibooks.org

Online File Conversion

This is a nice site that allows you to convert a file into a number of different formats. Can come in handy if someone sends you a file you cannot open because you do not have the right software.

I supports a lot of file formats including the Open Document standards. The one thing I didn't like about it was that you couldn't switch a file between type of document. For example, you can't take an image (jpeg) and turn it into a document (Word) or vise versa. I don't see why they couldn't do it, it just seems like something they overlooked.

One other drawback is that they email you the converted file and sometimes it doesn't come right away.

http://www.zamzar.com

Personal Privacy is Becoming a Thing of the Past

This is a site that I have had on my list to checkout for a while. It is a site that is designed around searching for information on people by name.

I don't know what is scarier about this site; how accurate it is at finding someone or how defaming inaccurate results can be.

Who would of thought that my brother has a MySpace page that he has never updated.

http://www.spock.com

Practice Your Typing Online

I found this site and while back and it is a neat tool to practice basic typing skills without installing any software. It is just a website that provides an on screen keyboard that provides text to type in order to practice your typing skills.

It supports three levels of difficulty, the ability to upload your own lesson text and a progress report in the form of a graph. Definitely worth bookmarking for casual practice.

http://www.keybr.com

Clean Unwanted Applications Off of Your New Computer

I ran across this tool the other day. It is a free piece of software that assists in removing unwanted adware, spyware and software that normally comes installed on a new computer. This software is commonly known as bloatware and can significantly reduce the performance of a new machine and only offers features that a user would not typically want or need.

This utility searches the computer and identifies pieces of bloatware and reports them to the user and then removes them as requested.

I have not yet tried it myself. It is for only Windows XP and Vista, and I have not run a computer with Windows in years (well at least a primary machine).

http://www.pcdecrapifier.com

Spelling with Flickr

I came across this cool PHP script the other day. It uses the Flickr API to assemble words made up of people's Flickr pictures. The code that generates this is available to so you can modify it or use it how you want.

Below is an example of my name in pictures. Try refreshing the page to see how it brings in new pictures every time.

Here is the link to generate your own.
http://metaatem.net/words

Browsershots

This is a pretty cool service the I came across the other day. It will take screenshots of a website for from a whole list of browsers, including a lot of the older versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox. It is a neat way to get a snapshot of what your website looks like on other browsers without having to test it yourself. However it will give you no indication of what is wrong with your code if the screenshots show errors.

http://browsershots.org

Here are screenshots of this website and they look pretty good even all the way back to IE5.5.
http://browsershots.org/http://www.finefrog.com/

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