This is just a quick note to say that DropBox, which is a very handy tool for synchronizing files across computes, will fail to sync if you use certain ‘special’ characters in the file name.
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Have you ever wished you could quickly and easily create html tables? WeIl… I just ran across a cool web-based tool for creating html tables with minimal effort.
My wife has an older MacBook with an 80GB hard drive. Unfortunately, she’s been running short on disk space. In an attempt to free up a few additional gigs, I downloaded JDiskReport (a freeware program that allows you to visualize your disk usage) and fired it up.
If you’re a Mac user and you want to check how your web pages look in a variety of Windows-based browsers, check out BrowserShots.org. This is a free service that offers screenshots using a wide variety of browsers on multiple platforms.
This is a slick little javascript bookmarklet that lists the attributes of various on-page elements: Mouseover DOM Inspector Just save it to your bookmarks toolbar (or wherever). When you want to use it, simply click on it and then mouseover the elements you’re curious about. When you’re done, simply hit escape. This is a pretty nifty little too for quickly figuring out column widths, etc. when poking around on a site.
Check this out… If you go over to montastic.com you can set up an account and enter any domains that you wish to monitor. You can enter up to 100 domains and, once it’s set up, they’ll periodically ping the sites on your list and e-mail you if there’s a change in status (i.e., site is down, site is back up).