’Starred Items’ are a feature of Gmail and Google Reader designed to give you quick access to these items. What you might not know, however, is that it is possible to broadcast your Google Reader starred items into their own RSS feed that you can share with friends or display locally on your desktop, or →
Feng GUI Viewfinder Heatmap
Feng GUI Viewfinder Heatmap is a free web service that uses an artificial intelligence algorithm to emulate human eye movements and generate heatmaps for websites and images. It allows you to define a URL or upload an image and then superimposes a heatmap on it which displays the ’hot spots’ on the image or URL →
ColorPic
ColorPic is a free app that allows you to pick any color from the screen and displays its code in HEX and decmial. It features a versatile color mixer and the ability to create and save color palettes. It also offers a number of others functions such as a customizable magnification area and the ability →
View Source Editor
View Source Editor is a tiny program that allows you to change Notepad from being the default editor when using IE’s “view source” function, and to replace it with the editor of your choice. If you build, work with, program, or design websites then you’ve likely used IE’s “view source” function dozens of times to →
Post2blog
Post2blog is a WSIWYG (what you see is what you get) blog editing and publishing software with advanced features such as a full featured word-processor-style editor, advanced image and table handling options, and live spelling checker and thesaurus. It supports a few dozen platforms including WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, Movable Type, and LiveJournal. I first started →
Namu6
Namu6 is a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) website creation and editing tool that can be used by anyone without any HTML or coding knowledge required. I will start by saying that this is a beautifully designed program. Whenever I review programs like this I expect to spend a few days working →
GUI Tidy
HTML GUI Tidy is a graphical user interface for HTML Tidy, a program that automatically optimizes HTML/PHP source code and fixes a number of common problems. It also arranges code so as to give it a reasonable indent-style layout. I am not a programmer nor a developer, but ever since starting Freewaregenius I have learned →
Windows Live Writer
Windows Live Writer is a true WYSIWYG blog authoring tool that can be used to write and edit blog postings (including pictures) locally and then post these online. It supports a wide range of blogging platforms including Windows Live Spaces, WordPress, and Blogger. Let me start by saying flat out that I am in love with →
Xenu’s Link Sleuth
Xenu’s Link Sleuth is a program that will browse all pages of a website looking for broken links, and present these in a multi-column sortable report that is easy to work with. If you have a website (or websites) then you know that the links you have on your website are (a) an integral part →
Good Keywords
“In this changed world the keyword reigns supreme”. I just felt like saying that. It sounds like a potentially meaningful and fashionable thing to say. It seems like you can really put your finger on the pulse of what’s going on if you knew what words/terms are being searched on a lot. You also need →
