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Using Colourlovers to design better

Colourlovers is a resource containing user submitted and rated colors and palettes. With color being so important to making a breaking a design, decide what color scheme to use on each design can sometimes be nerve racking. This review and short article describes how CL can be used to find the colors you need for your design.

Reinvigorate Preview

Reinvigorate is an up-and-coming hosted statistic tracker for websites, which mashes various elements of Google Analytics and Mint. While currently in private beta, I’m here to preview the service as it currently stands right now.

Gravatar Beta Review

As reported earlier, the Gravatar Public Beta is live. Within this review, you’ll find screenshots and my opinions of Gravatar’s new features. Please note that Gravatar is a paid service ($10) if you want more than two gravatars and/or more than one e-mail address.

Formspring

The latest in the ever growing list of web 2.0 startups based on form building that I’ve stumbled upon is Formspring. Does Formspring “spring” any new features on us that Wufoo, Icebrrg, and others don’t already offer?

Firebug - Dream or Nightmare?

Firebug is a new Firefox extension which gives developers a slew of amazing source viewing and editing power, but will rippers use the benefits of the program for their own monetary advantage? We discuss the benefits and possible downfalls of this excellent plugin. Is it a dream and nightmare for developers all in one?

Yahoo! Site Explorer Beta Review

This is my second review, and third article for Devlounge. Please let me know what you would like to see from me as a contributor.
Yahoo! Site Explorer is a tool designed for webmasters to view all pages within a site (and a site’s subdomains) as indexed by Yahoo. Webmasters can also view all inlinks [...]

Why MySpace Won The Social Networking War

It wasn’t MySpace’s supposed star management that brought it to the top. It wasn’t MySpace’s UI design or (especially) the code. The only thing that made MySpace what it was today was the terrible coding of MySpace’s programmers and the natural urge of teenagers to make what’s theirs theirs.

Harvest

I never would have thought just a few days after discovering Tick, I would run into another web 2.0 for tracking time & budgets. This time, I discovered Harvest, and I couldn’t help but jump on the opportunity to review it and compare the two similar services.

Fluxiom Review

Fluxiom makes it easy to organize and share your digital assets within your company, your colleagues and friends. Manage any kind of file like corporate media assets, marketing materials, product folders, contracts, images, text documents, logos or artwork – you name it.

Tick Preview

Tick is an upcoming web 2.0 app with a different flair. Once again, it’s another tracker, but this time, it helps you manage time. In an exclusive insiders look at the current pre-release version, we’ll let you know if Tick has a future as a successful web app, or if it should be swept away [...]