Naked Light is frickin’ cool.
I spent a little time tonight playing with Naked Light, a new concept in graphics and photo manipulation. Although the application is in a very early beta phase, it’s still worth checking out.
Prefuse releases Flare Alpha for AS3
Wow, that’s a mouthful. If you program in Actionscript 3 much, or have any interest in visualization tricks for flash, this will interest you. The guys at prefuse are in the process of porting their popular java visualization library to Actionscript 3 as “Flare“. As somebody who has a legitimate interest in advanced graphing in flash, this is big news.
The prefuse library contains quite the collection of visualization classes for flash. The demo doesn’t only cover cool little effects, but also goes into depth with things like pie charts, bar graphs and line charts.
I’d like to extend a little thank you to the guys at prefuse. As a programmer, I know things like this are an extreme challenge to maintain and program from the ground up. I’d like to donate to the cause, but they not only don’t have a donate button, but they also barely even tell you who they are. So, here’s my contribution offer: Guys are prefuse, if you come across this, get in touch with me and we’ll see what we can do about prettying up that website of yours. It’s not a huge offer compared to what you guys put out there, but I’d like to show my gratitude as I do intend to use Flare for my next milestone release of skinnyr.
(via)
MeasureIt
Yes, another Firefox/Flock extension.
MeasureIt allows you to quickly get dimensions of anything on the page. Click the extension icon, highlight the area and it will display the dimensions as you highlight. It’s very simple but oh-so-useful. It sped up CSS development for me tremendously.
technorati tags:measureit, flock, measure, dimensions, css, development
FireBug
I used to be a big fan of the web developer extension for Firefox. I still use it from time to time, but it doesn’t compare to Firebug.
Firebug allows you to view the generated source of the page via a method called inspection. It’s just like what you would expect if you’re an experienced programmer. With it, you just mouse over the page and it outlines elements while showing you the source. It also has an enhanced javascript debugger. I could go on and on about this extension but instead, you should just grab it.
technorati tags:firebug, firefox, flock, tools, extensions, useful
ColorZilla
Looking for an easy way to select a color you like in firefox? ColorZilla couldn’t be better. After you select a color, you can also right click the extension icon and select the color in hex, rgb, etc.
It’s good for working on the fly.
technorati tags:colorzilla, firefox, flock, tools, extensions, useful
