This article contains 10 visual tutorials intended for web designers and newbies on how to apply Javascript effects with jQuery. In case you don’t know about jQuery, it is a "write less, do more" Javascript library. It has many
Note: the version used in this article is jQuery 1.2.3
[Regularly Updated] Looking for Flickr Tools, hacks and services for a powerful photo sharing experience? Flickr is a revolution in photo storage, sharing and organization , making image management an easy, natural and collaborative process. Get comments, notes, and tags on your photos, post to any blog, share and chat live and more! Flickr claims to be the best online image management and photo sharing application.
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You can start uploading your photos (like jpeg, jpg, gif, png etc.) on Flickr easily via the web or use uploading tools for Mac and Windows to make it easy to upload a batch of hi res photos all at once. You can send your photos into Flickr with a special upload by email address. When you upload photos by email, use the subject line to give your photo a title, and the body of the email to give it a description. If you use a recent Nokia mobile phone, you can post your photos to Flickr via Lifeblog after getting your password.
If your are a Flickr newbie, read How to get the most out of Flickr, Tips for Flickr Beginners and the Official FAQ. Did you know the most popular camera on Flickr was the
You can now choose to license the photos you upload to Flickr under a Creative Commons license. In a tie up with Feedburner, Splicing gives people the ability to offer a single RSS feed which contains a chronologically ordered arrangement of their photostream from Flickr and the feed from their existing blog.
Developers interested in adding to this toolset might want to visit the FlickrIdeas forum or investigate the public Flickr API. The Flickr API is now available for non-commercial use by outside developers. Flickr forums are available to every Flickr member as a place to ask questions, suggest features or report a bug.
- simple application that allows your to download all of the public photos for a specific Flickr account.“The application renders all installed font families in a scrollable grid view. It allows you to change the font size, color, background color and text to be displayed. It has a built in list feature that allows you to select fonts and then store the names, this acts much like a light-box on the various stock image websites. You can export your list to .txt or .fv for later use and we also added a feature that will export your list to .pdf with the all styles applied.”
Download Font Viewer at FontViewer.net
It’s no secret that I <3 Firefox! One of the greatest aspects of Firefox is the ability to install add-ons to do just about anything and everything a browser can do. As a web designer this functionality is extremely useful to me. I have been able to turn my browser into the ultimate web design assistant that does everything from validate my css to tell me the hex number of a color on the web. So here is a list of my favorite Firefox add-ons... Be sure and let me know if I am missing anything!
Reminder Fox Firefox Add-on
ReminderFox displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and ToDo’s. ReminderFox does not seek to be a full-fledged calendar. In fact, the target audience is anybody that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, anniversaries, bills, etc) without having to run a whole calendar application. ReminderFox makes sure you remember all of your important dates via easy-to-use lists, alerts, and alarm notifications. Download here
Capture Fox Firefox Add-on
You can capture your screen and record your voice to make screencasts (tutorials, e-lessons, etc.). Download here
Pearl Crescent Page Saver Firefox Add-on
An extension for
FireFTP Firefox Add-on
FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. Download here
Fast Video Download Firefox Add-on
Download video files from popular sites like YouTube, Dailymotion, Break.com and more. 100% Free! Download here
DownThemAll! Firefox Add-on
The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox! Download here
TorrentBar Firefox Add-on
BitTorrent File Search Toolbar for Firefox. Allows to search numerous sites in a matter of minutes for needed torrent files. Download here
Fast Dial Firefox Add-on
Fast Dial replaces blank tabs with a panel of thumbnails of your favorite sites. Download here
Greasemonkey Firefox Add-on
Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. Download here
iMacros for Firefox
Automate Firefox. Record and replay repetitious work. If you love the Firefox web browser, but are tired of repetitive tasks like visiting the same sites every days, filling out forms, and remembering passwords, then iMacros for Firefox is the solution you’ve been dreaming of! ***Whatever you do with Firefox, iMacros can automate it.*** Download here
WordPress Helper Firefox Add-on
The
Live Writerfox Firefox Add-on
It blogs a page or selected text to Windows Live Writer. To use it you need to have Windows Live Writer installed on your machine. To add the “blog it” toolbar button, right click and customise the toolbar. And drag and drop the Live Writerfox button. Download here
MeasureIt Firefox Add-on
Draw a ruler across any webpage to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels. Download here
Colorzilla Firefox Add-on
Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies. Download here
Codetch Firefox Add-on
Get the feel of Dreamweaver in a Firefox extension. Edit your documents right next to your web pages as you surf. Download here
Web Developer Firefox Add-on
The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Download here
Dust-Me Selectors Firefox Add-on
Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox extension that finds unused CSS selectors. It extracts all the selectors from all the stylesheets on the page you’re viewing, then analyzes that page to see which of those selectors are not used. The data is then stored so that when testing subsequent pages, selectors can be crossed off the list as they’re encountered. You can test pages individually, or spider an entire site, and you’ll end up with a profile of which selectors are not used anywhere. Download here
View formatted source Firefox Add-on
Displays formatted and color-coded source and optional CSS information for each element. You can see exactly which CSS rules match for an element. The rules are displayed including file name and line number. The topmost element is that with the highest priority. Download here
Venkman is the code name for Mozilla’s JavaScript Debugger. Venkman aims to provide a powerful JavaScript debugging environment for
Firebug Firefox Add-on
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page… Download here
Pixel Perfect Firefox Add-on
Pixel Perfect is a Firefox/Firebug extension that allows web developers and designers to easily overlay a web composition over top of the developed HTML. Download here
Link Checker Firefox Add-on
Check the validity of links on any webpage. Download here
YSlow Firefox Add-on
YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on Yahoo’s rules for high performance web sites. Download here
Window Resizer Firefox Add-on
Resize your browser to various standard resolution sizes. Download here
IE View Firefox Add-on
Lets you load pages in IE with a single right-click, or mark certain sites to *always* load in IE. Download here
OperaView Firefox Add-on
Open pages in Opera from Firefox and Mozilla context menus. Very usefull for web developers. Download here
Yoono Firefox Add-on
In a single browser sidebar, Yoono users can interact with the best of the Web more than ever before by discovering, communicating, and sharing with friends across multiple networks and platforms all in one place. Users can stop wasting time checking for updates and visiting multiple networks and instead can start enjoying! Download here
Delicious Firefox Add-on
Delicious Bookmarks is the official Firefox add-on for Delicious, the world’s leading social bookmarking service (formerly del.icio.us). It integrates your bookmarks and tags with Firefox and keeps them in sync for easy, convenient access. Download here
Digg Firefox Add-on
The Digg Extension for Firefox allows you to interact with Digg (http://www.digg.com) and see information about the web page you are currently viewing while you use Firefox. Download here
StumbleUpon Firefox Add-on
StumbleUpon discovers
Twitbin Firefox Add-on
Creates a sidebar on your firefox browser to allow you to communicate with twitter.com. Send and receive twitter messages from anywhere on the web. Download here
LinkedIn Companion for Firefox
LinkedIn is an online network of more than 25 million experienced professionals. LinkedIn helps you be more effective in your daily work and opens doors to opportunities by helping you develop and manage your network of business. Download here
MySpace Toolbar for Firefox
Easily navigate MySpace from anywhere on the web. Stay connected to MySpace.com with persistent login. Receive notifications with updating messages. Clean up messy profile pages with the “Simplify” button. Download here
Firefox Universal Uploader Firefox Add-on
This extension allows to upload/download files from your favorite websites using a simple interface. Download here
Fire.fm Firefox Add-on
Fire.fm is your direct access to the extensive music library on Last.fm. Listen to music related to your favorite artist, and discover new artists and music in the process. Listen to your friends’ favorite music. Find Last.fm users with musical taste similar to your own. Quickly access your favorite stations by just typing a few letters into the location bar. This is the ultimate add-on for the music junkie. Download here
meebo Firefox Add-on
Instant messaging across all major IM networks built right into Firefox. Download here
Gmail Manager Firefox Add-on
Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets. Download here
Better Gmail 2 Firefox Add-on
Add useful extra features and skins to Gmail, like hierarchical labels, macros, file attachment icons, and more. Download here
View the Google pagerank of web sites, view backlinks, as well as access to all of Google’s services including, gmail, calendar, etc.Download here
I recently learned this neat little css snippet that allows you to
style selected text (this only works in Firefox… but really… what else
matters? 
Just put the following code somewhere into your stylesheet making
sure to change the background and color to match your own design! For
an example of this code in action just select some of the text here on
my site 
*::-moz-selection { background: #000 none repeat scroll 0 0; color: #fff; }
This same effect can be used in Safari as well by including the following code:
::selection { background: #000 none repeat scroll 0 0; color: #fff; }
Thanks to Andrew Houle of myinkblog.com for that tip 
