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Category Archives: Webmaster Software & Tools
Opera Wants You To Have An Ad-Free Browsing Experience
Opera is fed up with online advertising, and as such has announced a developer version of its browser, which comes with an ad-blocking technology which is turned on by default. For those totally against ad-blocking the technology can be turned off easily – however the ad blocking technology does offer a roughly 40% faster browsing experience when compared […]
10 Premium Responsive WordPress Themes for March 2016
You may agree that one of the main characteristics for a modern website is its responsiveness. You’d hardly find somebody in a big city who doesn’t have a mobile phone, a tablet or a laptop. Sometimes they have all of the above. Together with a much faster Internet connection, responsiveness is becoming an integral part […]
Microsoft SQL Server is Coming To Linux!
Want to utilize Microsoft’s SQL server for you’re next project? In the past this meant that you would be forced to use a Microsoft based hosting platform – however this is all scheduled to change throughout 2016/2017 as Microsoft announces plans to port SQL Server to Linux! Today I’m excited to announce our plans to […]
Easily Create Stunning Social Posts With Adobe Post
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 […]
A Non-Secure Icon Is Coming To Google Chrome
Talk across the Interwebs this morning is revolving around a possible upcoming decision by Google Chrome to flag non-secure websites via a red “x” icon. The feature hasn’t been officially announced, however a new hidden option is now available within Chrome which lets you “Mark non-secure origins as non-secure, or as ‘dubious’“. Want to try […]
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 […]
Microsoft Stops Support For Internet Explorer 8, 9, 10
I am ridiculously happy to make this post – and I just wanted to get that out of the way immediately. Now then, 2016 marks the official end of life for Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10. Official end of life. Microsoft will no longer offer security updates, non-security updates, or any assistance regarding IE […]
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 […]
When Everyone Hates Your Product Name – Rename It Animate CC
What do you do when you have spent years developing a technology whose name has been utterly destroyed by the industry? When webmasters and web designers alike shudder at he mere mention of your technology? When other companies pioneer campaigns specifically against your technology? Surely you don’t just throw it all away and move on […]
The Questionable Future of Mozilla Thunderbird
Some rather unfortunate news broke out this week. Mozilla is looking to dump Thunderbird. See Thunderbird is, in my eyes, a perfect alternative to Microsoft Outlook. In all my past experiences Thunderbird has been faster, smoother, and less resource intensive. Furthermore thanks to extensions – Thunderbird has been a-lot more flexible and customizable – because who […]
Get Instant SEO & Social Media Stats Via Our New, Free, Online Tool!
Back in 2012 I started offering free SEO analysis reports here on Rapid Purple in an effort to help small business owners and other webmasters have a way to get some basic SEO details and statistics regarding their website without ever paying a dime for it. When this first launched I would manually run these reports, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Do You Vivaldi?
No, not the italian baroque composer from Venice, Italy; the new browser launched by Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner – one of the original developers behind Opera. See back in March 2014 the decision was made to shut down My Opera – the community that many would say helped build and establish Opera as the browser it is […]
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 […]