I get asked by ad folks occasionally how to get a full screen capture for marketing materials, or to show ad positions in full page context, etc. One way is to use a piece of screen capture software like SnagIt. SnagIt can take a scrolling screen shot at full size, edit it after, export to [...]

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Ernesto on March 4th, 2009

In my visual design projects (no chortling from my artist friends and colleagues, please), a wide range of stock photos certainly speeds things along.  Sitepoint just twittered a link to a list of 30+ free stock photo sites they’ve posted. Sweet.  Also of note are the two free stock photo search engines listed:  http://www.everystockphoto.com and http://www.openstockphotography.org. Note [...]

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Ernesto on February 18th, 2009

ShareThis is a nice tool for publishers, bloggers, etc. to enable readers to share links to their content, not only by emailing it, but also by sending it to a huge variety of social networks or via SMS to a cell phone. Good reporting tools for publishers, too. We use it on The Telegraph and [...]

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Ernesto on January 26th, 2009

I love free Web tools.  Even when I have the paid versions, it’s nice to have a backup.  For example, while I work in Dreamweaver for most development projects, I find Filezilla‘s free ftp client much more stable for getting my files to a remote server when my Web connection gets iffy.  And I know [...]

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