When it comes down to social media management there are two main hurdles to get over. First you need to come up with the content to share, and then you need to come up with the graphics to go along with it. Well Adobe is here to help with a new mobile app called Adobe […]
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Spend Less Time Tweaking Your Facebook Ads With The Facebook Grid Tool
When it comes to running Facebook advertising campaigns one of the most common issues most business owners face is passing the Facebook text-rule. See Facebook has a rule, ads that have more than 20% of text in their image won’t be approved to run on Facebook or Instagram. However time and time again I find business owners […]
Watermark Your Photos with GFXMark
When it comes time to watermark your photos it’s rarely a one-time, single-graphic process. Chances are you have a ton of photos, and need to watermark each one without spending hours on end manually watermarking each photograph – one at a time. GFXMark Free steps in here and offers a free Windows application which will […]
How Readable Is Your Websites Content?
Remember back in Elementary school when you used to compete with your friends about who’s paper/essay produced a higher reading level in Microsoft Word? No? Ok so maybe that was just my circle of friends – however modern day bloggers and webmasters should always be weary of the readability levels of their content. The Readability-Score.com […]
How Far Away Is You’re Website?
Ever wondered just how far your websites data has to travel to get to you? Just how many miles exists between where you’re website is, and where you are? There’s a really cool tool out there from the folks behind IP-Address.com which calculates the exact distance between two different hosts. Now there’s a number of […]
Facebook Brings Messages & Events To The Page Plugin
Integrating social media widgets into your website is a sure-fire way to help boost engagement from your audience, and Facebook is well aware of it. So aware that they have decided to rework the Page Plugin to allow your visitors and customers to message you’re Facebook page directly from the widget. Facebook messages provide public […]
Time To Move Your Files – No More Unlimited Storage For Microsoft OneDrive
Microsoft OneDrive has offered tons of free-space promotions over the past few years – and many of us have taken full advantage of that – racking up 300, 400, 500GB of completely free backup space courtesy of Microsoft. Then Microsoft took it one step further and began offering unlimited storage for Office 365 users. Guess […]
Bonanza Background Burner Lets You Easily Change Backgrounds On Any Image
Let’s say you want to create a new product gallery on you’re website – unfortunately all of the images you have of your products have some sort of background on them. You find yourself facing several options. You make do with what you have. You pay a graphic designer to remove the backgrounds from the […]
Adobe & Dropbox Join Forces For Better PDF Management
Adobe & Dropbox have announced a new partnership this week allowing Dropbox & Adobe Acrobat to integrate together. In turn you get the ability to manage, edit, and share your PDF files anywhere and at anytime. Here’s a breakdown of what the Adobe & Dropbox integration make possible: Highlight, annotate, and edit your PDF documents […]
Need Some Help With Your Internet Addiction?
Let’s all admit something right now – we probably spend way too much time on social networking websites while we should be doing something more productive – like working. Unfortunately having self control sucks. Luckily the Internet doesn’t suck and as such there’s an awesome tool called KeepMeOut that helps you control your own Internet […]
Get Your Bing Link Explorer Results Exported While You Still Can
Bing has announced the retirement of Link Explorer, a tool originally from Yahoo which let you see your own websites backlinks along with those of your competition. This was a great way to do some competitive link analysis to learn who was linking to websites such as your own. Bing states that the Bing search […]
Edit Any PDF Online In Seconds with the Free FormSwift PDF Editor
I have quiet a few PDF tools listed inside the Webmaster Resources Directory here at Rapid Purple that are all aimed at offering alternative ways to work with your PDF files without dishing out for a professional license for Adobe Acrobat. However there aren’t alot of options available for a powerful web-based PDF editor. In fact the […]
Magento & New Relic Partner Up To Improve Performance for eCommerce Websites
Performance, performance, performance. We as a society are always focused on and rewarding performance – whether it be at the workplace or when you buy a bigger engine option for your new car. When we get online we must have the fastest speeds and when we get to a website we expect it to be […]
Search For Sound Files On The Interwebs
As it sits right now you can’t use Google or Bing to search specifically for a sound – so what do you do if you absolutely need to find a cute kitty meow to include in your next YouTube video of cute cat videos? You can try Google and Bing but this might turn into […]
Annoyed With Google Fonts UI? Make Your Life Easier With FontCDN
As a webmaster you’ll inevitably find yourself having to work with Google Fonts once in a while. As a web designer and/or web developer you’ll find yourself working with Google Fonts several times a day – and unfortunately the Google Fonts interface just wasn’t designed for such extensive use. Really it wasn’t designed very well […]
Need A Way To Easily Add Watermarks To Your Images?
Looking for a way to watermark your images before adding them to your eCommerce website? Or maybe you just don’t want your photographs spread about without some attribution to you? Easy Watermark Studio Lite is an awesome free Windows application which lets you …… easily add watermarks – and then some – to your images. Easy […]
Top 300 Freeware Software by winAddons.com
Back in 2007 winAddons.com published an awesome list of 300 freeware software, organized by category. There’s some great software listed here – and the majority of them are still around and functioning perfectly in 2015. Unfortunately somewhere between the end of 2014 and now the winAddons.com domain name began to point to a default GoDaddy parked domain […]
UK Businesses Can Get A Free VMware vSphere Health Check
VMhosts has launched a free VMware health check service open to all UK businesses. The free health check is offered via a remote installation of Veeam ONE, a free tool intended to identify performance issues with your VMware setup. Furthermore VMhosts will look over your storage and your network configurations. All tests are done by […]
Create A Fake Profile In Seconds
These days almost every place you visit asks you to register and create a profile to get access to something, and these days with online security the way it is – not everyone is comfortable using their own name or email address to create these profiles. This is where fakena.me comes into play. Fakena.me generates […]
The 10 Things All PHP Programmers Should Know
The Internet as we know it was built by webmasters, designers, and developers who got their start thanks to a slew of free resources and tutorials that were available to them. This is something that I have always streamed to maintain with Rapid Purple – and it seems Josh Leskar and his team over at […]