Textures Are A Designers Best Friend
August 28th, 2009
So we’ve already posted great resources for free stock photos but what about stock textures? First question your probably asking yourself is…. “what is stock textures?” Stock textures are close up photographs of a texture. So one example could be an up close look at an asphalt road or perhaps a glass of milk. These textures are great for backgrounds for headers and other cool things you can thing of. So check out Texture King for your free texture needs.
This cool web application which uses non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images. So why is this awesome, well it reduces your images file size which in turns makes you web pages load quicker. It a cool tool if your trying to make a speedy website. 
With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. Get it 
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So do you love google as much as I do then check out a preview version of Google’s ‘caffeine’s architecture (new code base). What’s the difference you ask. Well to the average user, nothing really but if your one those die hard searchers out there then you might notice something. All the changes are behind the scenes so you might notice that some search results rank differently, that’s about it. But hey it’s news so if you want to test it out and give google some feedback then head over to 
Looking for some alternatives to the Adobe reader. Then check out these two options. The first option is 
Well it’s offical. Today Firefox has reached the 1 Billion download Milestone. The browser now roughly owns 30% of the browser market. It’s my personal favorite browser and if you haven’t use it then you should check it out.
Well it’s official, Microsoft and Yahoo have signed an 10 year web search agreement to try and take down Google. The long-expected deal means Microsoft’s new Bing search engine will be combined with 
Every have the urge to just bust out some sweet lyrics like i do. Well Audacity will let you record your sweet lyrics as well as edit them. It’s a simple program that doesn’t have a ton of bells and whistles but it does what it’s suppose to and does it well. Weather that’s editing Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files or perhaps changing the speed or pitch of a recording. The best news it’s available for all major operating systems.