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 […]
Category Archives: Webmaster Software & Tools
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 […]
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 W3C Mobile Checker Is Live in Alpha Mode
The W3C has brought us a slew of awesome webmaster tools which many of us have used forever now. There was the HTML Validator, RSS Validator, CSS Validator, a Broken Link Checker, and now the W3C have added a new tool to their suite: the Mobile Checker. The W3C Mobile Checker scans your website […]
Adobe Launches Fully Integrated Stock Library
Subscribers to the Adobe Creative Cloud 2015 will be excited to know that Adobe has decided to launch their very own stock image service called Adobe Stock. The new service runs you $9.99 per image; or you can purchase a 10-images-per-month package for $49.99. Existing Creative Cloud 2015 subscribers get a discount making the 10-images-per-month […]
Google Discontinues Support for Google AdWords Editor Versions 10.6 & Older
Google’s AdWords Editor is onto it’s 11th version now which was released in December 2014. However 6 months into 2015 there’s still a substantial amount of users utilizing version 10.x of the AdWords editor – and the backend difference between the two platforms is so different that it’s becoming rather inefficient to continue to manage […]
SSH Support Is Coming to Windows
As a webmaster SSH is extremely important, and while Linux and Mac users get SSH support straight out the box Windows users are forced to rely on third-party tools such as my personal favorite – PuTTY. However in a new post on the Windows PowerShell Blog – the Microsoft PowerShell team revealed that they have […]
Windows 10 Will Launch With 7 Versions
Windows 10 is coming this summer – and plenty of us are patiently waiting for that to come out – especially since the upgrade from Windows 7 or 8 will be completely free. In a blog post today Microsoft announced some more information regarding the various versions that Windows 10 will be released with. These […]
Introducing Visual Studio Code – A Free, Cross-Platform Code Editor from Microsoft
Continuing right along with Microsoft announcements from the Build 2015 conference we bring to you Microsoft Visual Studio Code – a new, free, cross-platform code editor. That’s right, cross-platform. This baby works on not only Windows systems, but Linux and Apple’s Mac OS X platforms. Visual Studio Code’s big brother, Visual Studio, is still Windows […]
Microsoft Finally Gives Their New Browser An Official Name
Earlier on this month Microsoft rolled out their Windows 10 preview which included Project Spartan – Microsoft’s replacement for Internet Explorer in Windows 10. Project Spartan however was never intended to be the official name for the browser – and so today at the Build 2015 conference Microsoft announced the new, official, name for their […]
Skype For Business Has Launched
Skype is currently used by more than 300 million people these days and it many rely on it for more than just personal use. I can think of a few people, cough Illicit cough, who practically refuse all other sorts of communication methods especially for business use. Well, Illicit and everyone using Office 365 and Office […]
Mozilla Firefox Downloaded Over 1.5 Million Times From Google Play Store
As I booted up my tablet this morning and browsed through the Google Play Store I noticed something pretty awesome. The download counter for Mozilla Firefox has surpassed 1.5 million downloads. Late last week Mozilla wrote on their blog that they have surpassed 100 million downloads – and it seems that number skyrocketed some-more over […]
Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Preview With New Spartan Browser
Earlier on in the week Microsoft rolled out their latest Windows 10 preview to Windows Insiders which includes the new Project Spartan browser. Now considering this is a preview Project Spartan isn’t complete yet and as such doesn’t have all the features yet – however there’s still plenty of awesome things to play around with. First […]
SugarSync 3.5 Launches With Deleted Items Recovery Feature
SugarSync have released their latest version, SugarSync 3.5, which brings with it an awesome new redesign for the desktop application, along with a plethora of great new features – my favorite of which is the ability to restore deleted items. So now whenever you accidentally delete a file you can easily recover it right within […]
Windows 10 Upgrade Will Be Free – Even For Your Questionable Windows Install
Microsoft has always been fighting a battle against piracy – in-fact almost every software maker has to deal with it – albeit not everyone has to deal with it on the scale that Microsoft has had to over the years. Ever since Windows XP introduced software activation pirates have been out there defeating these methods and […]
Farewell Internet Explorer – It’s Time For A New Brand
Back in January when Microsoft released their Windows 10 preview they also showcased Project Spartan – a new browser which will ship with Windows 10. If you haven’t played with the Windows 10 preview build – Spartan is much more than just an update to Internet Explorer. Spartan uses a brand new rendering engine, is […]
Figure Out What Kind Of File That Is With HexBrowser
As a webmaster there’ll be times when you download something without an explicit file extension, or with an extension you’ve never seen before, or with the wrong extension assigned to it. Now you’re left to figure out what kind of file you really have – which is where HexBrowser.NET comes in. A freeware tool that identifies […]
NYC Public School Students & Teachers Get Free Access to Microsoft Office
Students in New York City’s public schools are joining the ranks of NYC’s college students who have gotten free access to Microsoft’s Office 365. During the “State of the City” address made by New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito it was announced that every student and teacher will get full access to Microsoft Office 365 for free. You’ll […]
Imgur Pro For Everyone!
When it comes to uploading and sharing photos online Imgur has been “the home to the web’s most popular image content” since roughly 2009 when Alan Schaaf founded the site. Since then Imgur has ran two monetization models: the free membership allowed you to utilize the site while viewing ads; while the premium version offered […]