Entries Tagged 'Cool Tools' ↓

Tired of pixel-by-pixel painting, trying to create seamless stripes textures? Looking for a simple way to create some jazzy looking backgrounds for use in your blog ?

If your answer to all these questions is YES then try Stripe Generator. Creating stripes just cannot get any simpler than this.

Stripe Generator is an AJAX tool which helps you create striped images perfect for use in blog backgrounds. And with the number of parameters (wonderful shadow, different colors, size, angle) they give to create the images, I am sure nobody will ever want to use Adobe Photoshop again to make striped images. Stripe Generator auto generates some very cool stripe images for your blog of the color you choose, in the sizes you wish, and also in different angles.

If you are running short of inspiration to create a stripe from scratch, then you can also browse the Showcase section for popular stripes and then edit the one you like.

After you have done making it, you can simply click on the Download button to download the image you created. Then to have it as your site’s background just tweak your CSS a bit with this simple code :

background-image: url("path-to-stripe.png");

If you want to only repeat horizontally your tile (as in the case of tiles with gradient), you must add this line too:

background-repeat: repeat-x;

So did you try Stripe Generator ? Do not forget to show me what cool stripes you made with that …

I have seen many bloggers searching for their own names on different search engines to find at what position their blog is in the search engines results for their name as the query. You may or may not want that but you may be more interested in finding out what your blog’s position is in the search engines results for a specified search term.

The traditional procedure to do this, is to go to each search engines home page. Enter the query there and then keep scrolling through the search results to find out where your blog’s URL is figured. This procedure also gets a bit cumbersome if you do not find your blog in the first one or two pages of the results. Multiply this effort by the number of search engines and you have a lot of work to do.

Try Shoemoney SERP script. A simple online tool to check a URL’s position for a query in 4 different search engines (Google, MSN Search, Yahoo! and AltaVista) at one go. You just specify the query and the URL and the script does the rest.

In short, Shoemoney Serps is a quick and easy tool to tell where your site ranks for keywords in all major search engines.

Search Engine Results Tool

This is my first sponsored post.

Everybody likes to customize their desktop. And what better way to do that than using custom icons for your apps. But searching for custom icons for your favorite applications can be a daunting task given the huge number of options available for search.

Try Iconfinder. A useful web based tool for finding hundreds of custom icons for an application. Just enter the name of the software you want to search for and get hundreds of icons in every possible size.

The service also allows you to streamline your search by giving options for what icon sizes you want to be included in the search results. The different icon sizes available are from 12 X 12 to 128 X 128.

Try it and get the unique look for your apps.

Don’t know which font to use on your blog or site ? Using good and easily readable fonts is the first step to building a accessible website/blog and it could well be the deciding factor as to how much time visitors spend on your blog.

Enter Typetester. An online tool which lets you compare fonts right on your screen before you use them in your blog/website.

Typetester is an online application, that can be pretty useful when you need to check or choose a typeface for your (next) project.

Some points about Typetester :

• You can select three different fonts and compare them at the same time to see how they will look.
• You can set the size, leading, tracking, alignment, color, background and decoration of the font.
• Fonts from user’s system are pulled into a web page, so you will never miss out on your favorite fonts.

After finalizing which font you want to use, Typetester goes a step further to give you the CSS code to implement the font on your blog/website.

Try Typetester now and tell me if it helped you..

When you need to search the internet for something, Google and Yahoo! are the two places you will ever need to go. But why visit Yahoo! and Google separately to search for the same query when you can do so at the same time.

Try Releton. Releton returns results for your query from both Google and Yahoo! search engines. You can choose how much significance you want to give to the two search engines using the slider on the website. By default the silder is 50-50, giving equal importance to both engines.

Try it & save time.