July 3rd, 2008 | Published in Cross Platform, Design, I.A., Interface, Miscellaneous, Tools, UCXD
Thanks Yahoo! for making these handy wireframe stencils available in formats that support the standard tools for building wire frames and prototypes. I discovered them while browsing through Graffletopia.
Even more kind is that Yahoo! released these stencils under a Creative Commons (share, remix, attribution) license.
March 28th, 2007 | Published in Cross Platform, Design, MS Windows, Mac OS, Review, Tools
Since migrating to Mac OS X as my near-full-time platform I have sorely missed SnagIt’s ability to capture full length web pages (scrolling below the fold). For the past few months I’ve been getting by with a cross-platform plugin for FireFox called ScreenGrab. It was slow and could run out of memory on long pages. I was happy to receive an automatic update to the latest ScreenGrab version 0.9.3. It uses the Gecko rendering engine for capturing web pages, making it much faster than the prior Java implementation. You can capture the view port, a selection, or the entire page with a right-click in FireFox.
I use Snapz Pro X for most of my screen capture needs (works like a charm for motion screen capture) but when I need to save a full browser screen as a PNG there is no substitute for ScreenGrab. Yes, I’ve tried Paparazzi but you can’t browse with and that is very inconvenient. This is a show stopper for me because with modern web pages there are, sadly, many states you can’t preserve in a URI. This makes Paparazzi blind to many things I need in my screen captures.
March 8th, 2006 | Published in Tools
Today my friend Todd emailed me a link to the NETGEAR Skype Phone. I vaguely recall reading about the concept of wifi mobile phones but this is the first I’ve heard of something materializing.
This device could work great in cities with public Wi-Fi coverage. Especially for traveling abroad. I imagine it being more practical around the home on one’s personal wireless network. Depending on the cost the savings potential is huge for a person making frequent international calls. In the mean time I’ll stick with my Packet8 internet phone (Voice over Internet Protocol
).
January 1st, 2006 | Published in Tools
Happy new year! If you’re building the web this year please consider adding the following tools to your kit where applicable. Happy buildling for 2006!
Semantic Markup
CSS
Unobtrusive Javascript
and consider a dash of Microformats as well.