An oldy but goody – Smashing Magazine’s huge list of free graphics sources
WWD’s resources for color – don’t miss other recommendations in the comments
LifeHacker’s productivity software apps
The site that gets Wordpress themes faster than the Wordpress theme site

• An oldy but goody – Smashing Magazine’s huge list of free graphics sources
• WWD’s resources for color – don’t miss other recommendations in the comments
• LifeHacker’s productivity software apps
• The site that gets Wordpress themes faster than the Wordpress theme site

Two sources I’ve just learned about for free photos to use online:
everystockphoto
freerangestock.com
Both sites have quite a bit of great stuff, and you can submit photos and get some revenue for it.

Two sources I’ve just learned about for free photos to use online:

everystockphoto

freerangestock.com

Both sites have quite a bit of great stuff, and you can submit photos and get some revenue for it.

LifeHacker managed to dig up both Windows and Mac free utilities that let you merge PDF documents, re-order pages and edit them with watermarks and stuff like that. If you ever thought of writing an ebook, these are potentially very helpful programs.
The ability to create PDFs in the first place is part of the Mac [...]

LifeHacker managed to dig up both Windows and Mac free utilities that let you merge PDF documents, re-order pages and edit them with watermarks and stuff like that. If you ever thought of writing an ebook, these are potentially very helpful programs.

The ability to create PDFs in the first place is part of the Mac operating system. For Windows, you need CutePDF, and then any program with a print option can generate you a PDF document.

This is a great hack that helps Windows users reclaim some of the memory Firefox likes to eat.
Once you follow the steps outlined in the post, you can test it by doing the following:

Close down your browser.
Hit CTRL-ALT-DEL, and select your Task Manager from that window
Click the “Processes” tab
Start Firefox. An entry will show up [...]

This is a great hack that helps Windows users reclaim some of the memory Firefox likes to eat.

Once you follow the steps outlined in the post, you can test it by doing the following:

• Close down your browser.
• Hit CTRL-ALT-DEL, and select your Task Manager from that window
• Click the “Processes” tab
• Start Firefox. An entry will show up for it under the Processes tabs. Note how much memory it’s using.
• Minimize Firefox (this is how the plugin works – it all happens when you minimize the window).
• Maximize Firefox again and watch the number change.

I’m consistently seeing gains of 50% of my memory, give or take some. It seems to me that after a while it creeps back up, but every time you minimize it repeats the process, which helps. And I’m seeing no performance impact.

If you use Gimp, you know it’s awesome for free but it’s not really a Photoshop replacement. But you can make it look more like Photoshop with GimpShop. And hey, whoever said appearance wasn’t everything was probably invisible.
GimpShop consolidates all those crazy windows Gimp likes to generate – one for every toolbar, another [...]

If you use Gimp, you know it’s awesome for free but it’s not really a Photoshop replacement. But you can make it look more like Photoshop with GimpShop. And hey, whoever said appearance wasn’t everything was probably invisible.

GimpShop consolidates all those crazy windows Gimp likes to generate – one for every toolbar, another for each image – into one window with lots of little windows inside it – like Photoshop. If you’ve ever had Gimp stash, like, 10 windows down in your taskbar for you to hunt through until you find the one you were looking for – which might be under your Firefox, who the hell knows – you know why this makes Gimp a lot nicer to use.

No other major changes, but it’s worth a download.

Here’s a great tip if you like to cut back on mousing as much as possible: a Firefox extenion that assigns every link on a page a number, so you can type the number instead of clicking the link.You can configure it to do this only if you hit Control + the number then enter, [...]

Here’s a great tip if you like to cut back on mousing as much as possible: a Firefox extenion that assigns every link on a page a number, so you can type the number instead of clicking the link.You can configure it to do this only if you hit Control + the number then enter, or with just Control + number, or my favorite: just the number, no control, no need to hit enter afterwards.

It seems to slow down page loading a tiny bit. Maybe. Definitely not anything that bothers me, and I’m very impatient for page loads.