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Pixie from Nattyware is a great little colour picker. When you come across a cool tool after a few years on the internet, you start to get a sense of it. And Pixie definitely fits the mold.
What do I like about Pixie from Nattyware?
- It’s free
- It’s simple
- It works
- And it works well
In addition to those critical points it has helped me enormously in my
web site design process.
Sometimes, to be honest free software can be rubbish and more trouble than it’s worth.
Pixie is not like this - the installation is easy - you can donate if you want and if you are doing any web site design your will find it a very useful colour picker. Pixie from Nattyware uses almost zero system resources. Pixie is currently at version 3.1 A cool tool.
You can download Pixie here
pixie
I’ve recently begun using “textpad” instead of notepad because it’s much more versatile. So I thought - at the risk of appearing lazy - I would share the description of this tool with you - who know’s, you may even give it a try. It’s shareware - license buys tech support amongst other things.
From the TextPad Site:
“TextPad is a powerful and easy to use editor for plain text files. It can be used for anything from a direct replacement for Notepad to a programmer’s integrated development environment.
Command shortcuts can be modified to taste, with emulations provided for WordStar, BRIEF, and Microsoft applications. In-context help is available for all commands, and in-context menus pop-up with the right mouse button. Use of the standard Multiple Document Interface (MDI) allows many files to be edited simultaneously, with up to 4 views on each file. Text can be dragged and dropped between files, and to other applications.
In addition to the usual cut and paste facilities, you can correct the most common typing errors with commands to change case, and transpose words, characters and lines. Other commands let you indent blocks of text, reformat paragraphs, and insert whole files. Any change can be undone or redone, right back to the first one made. Visible bookmarks can be put on lines, and edit commands can be applied to all lines with bookmarks. Frequently used combinations of commands can be saved as keystroke macros.
The spelling checker has dictionaries for 13 languages, and additional dictionaries can be created from word list files. Words can be added to the standard dictionaries, as they arise, or can be imported from a word list file.
For purposes such as software development, TextPad has a customizable tools menu, and integral file compare and search commands. The output of user defined tools can optionally be captured in the Command Results window. By defining an appropriate search pattern to match the error output of tools such as compilers, the source file can be opened at the corresponding line, by double clicking the error message.
Requirements:
TextPad 4.1 requires Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT 3.51 or later.
Registration:
$27 USD for a single-user license.
Author:
Helios Software Solutions, PO Box 619, LONGRIDGE, PR3 2GW, England
E-mail: info@textpad.com”
Web: http://www.textpad.com
Recently a company named Intellemon has released a web site design software named XSitePro which for some web site creators could be a viable alternative to Dreamweaver or Frontpage.
The benefits seem to be ease of use, useful add-ons, excellent customer support.
Additional features include the ability to automatically include adsense ads, pop-up support. No html knowledge is required so this would be ideal for someone who is starting their first site. Later when you learn how to customize your site with html you are able to modify the pages.
XSitePro is not a free program and I do get a kickback if you purchase from the link in this thread. If you are looking for a free WYSIWYG editor see my post on nvu.
Another cool feature is a search and replace - just say your affiliate program goes down and you want to quickly replace it with another - you can do a site wide search and replace.
website design softwareICOOLTOOLS SAYS: don't risk your computers security with slow and cludgy IE - Get firefox now.
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