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Debugging Flash Movies with Fiddler 2

What is Fiddler?

From the Fiddler website:

Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet.

Simple really. Introduced to me by Chris Preece, this is a Microsoft-made free debugging tool which shows you all of the header information and file requests that your browser makes. It’s works with IE, and also claims to work with other browsers (I’ve never tried this though) Read More…

FlashDen

I’m surprised I haven’t come across FlashDen before, but here’s the deal…

FlashDen sells premade flash ‘bits’. It’s like a marketplace, with every user able to buy and sell flash files, all for pretty reasonable prices. (We’re talking $2 – $30 here.) And the files are anything from Preloader bars to fully-featured xml-driven portfolios. It’s worth a look.

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Creating an Icon with Photoshop

I just upgraded to CS3 (finally!), yet I’m still dissappointed by the lack of support for Icon files. Especially now that favicons are so in vogue now. Fear not though, because Open-source plugins are to the rescue!

Very easily, you can now save out both normal and package icons from Photoshop, with the addition of the plugins available from Telegraphics.

It’s about time I had a proper favicon for this site, so I stole some inspiration from Adobe and added my own little twist. Voila!

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Free Fonts, Free Vectors

Free fonts, Free Vectors indeed.

Where to go for free fonts? Urbanfonts and / or Betterfonts.

Where to go for free Vector Art? Vecteezy. Free Brushes (for Photoshop / Illustrator, you know) Brusheezy.

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Optimizing your CSS Online

Another useful link, this time for Optimizing & Formatting CSS files.

The CSS Formatter / Optimizer is an online form, that can format your CSS in a variety of ways. Just copy & paste, select your options, and the form will chuck your formatted CSS back at you. Why use it? Well, I’m still using Dreamweaver 8, and although it’s very competent at things like XML and HTML formatting, it’s no good at doing CSS. I like to use this website towards the end of my projects, and it makes your stuff so much neater (and more efficent, if need be) Read More…