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This is a highly recommended plugin for designer, especially website designer. Collorzilla allows the designer to pick the color directly from the homepage, therefore, there will be no mistake in your color selection.

It is easy to use, just click on the small colorpicker icon on the bottom left of your Mozilla Firefox browser, and then move the cursor to the exact location you would like to pick the color. It will record the RGB, Web Colour Code (#xxxxxx) and the exact coordinate.

It currently support Intel Mac, FireFox and Ubuntu FC5 Linux.

Download Color Picker for Firefox

If you do not have firefox, you could start:-

Web 2.0 style becoming popular, more and more websites is using buttons which are simple, bright and catchy ideas to get readers to click on their buttons or logo. Some of the websites even offer a simple and hassle free method to create your very own cool 3D button. But there is always certain limitation on what type or shape you would like your button to be.

The most flexible way is always to do it yourself with Adobe Photoshop.

You will be able to come out with logo/button just like this:-

The process is very simple. It only includes Rectangular Marquee Tool, Skew, Distort, Gradient and some dragging with your mouse. Within 5-15minutes, you will get a cool looking 3D button for your website.

Learn 3D Button Tutorial

Adobe® AIR™, formerly code-named Apollo, is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.

Mike Chambers, Danny Dura and Kevin Hoyt now allows users to download their book titled Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide for free.

You could still have the hard copy of Adobe Air from Amazon for USD10.19, but it will not beat the free copy of Adobe Air.

Transform the picture you have on your harddrive into a cartoon. There are times when you would image how would you look in a cartoon. Here is a chance to do-it-yourself with Photoshop.

All you need is :-

1. Tutorial
2. Adobe Photoshop 7 or higher
3. An Eye for detail
4. and Some of your Time

This process is to make your own vector portraits.

Before vector portraits

After vector portraits

Learn how to cartonize your picture.

I have started uploading some Wordpress plugins which is pretty common in most WP users.

Here is the WP Plugins which are installed:-

1. Top Commentators – Featuring the top commentators of the month (could be set to hourly, days, month, year). This is a pretty nice plugins to attract reader to be active commenting on your website. It gives a link without a no-follow tag. You do not have to beg to get a link from a website, instead, you work for it.
2. Adsense Deluxe – This is like a must for all Wordpress users who wish to use adsense to monitize their blog. It allow users to customize your adsense to be embeded into your blog nicely and neatly.
3. Batch Image Upload -It is a personal favourite of mine as you are able to upload image in bulk, resize them into specific width, then copy the link provided into your post editor.
4. Get Recent Comment - Good to have plugin which shows post that is recently commented. It allow the author and other user to reply to the recently commented post.
5. Subscribe to Comment – A good way to update commentators that someone replied to their comment.