Archive for the 'tools' Category



switch — the video

Update: Now with a soundtrack!
Just amazing stuff. Here’s a demo using VirtueDesktops to switch between OS X and Parallels with lots of eye candy. This is the solution I was hoping for back when the Intel announcement was made, only it plays much cooler than I anticipated.

Everything that I had an issue with before is […]

I haven’t booted into the Windows partition in over two weeks. The Parallels Beta4 is simply amazing. It now supports full-screen mode at least up to 1280×1024 (as much as I can handle on my secondary Dell LCD). I’ve been able to do everything I needed to (run web applications on the client network in […]

Until I heard about Axure last week I didn’t know about any tools out there for creating prototypes. But in the last week, I’ve learn the names of two others. The list I’m keeping currently includes:

irise.com
Axure.com
Serena Composer

How did I miss all these before? Please leave a comment if you think there are others that should […]

Freeware color-picker for Windows

For years I used an old version of Tiger Color’s application Color Impact to grab colors from the screen (like the eyedropper in Fireworks or Photoshop). But a few years ago they increased the price to $40, which IMHO is way too much to pay for a feature that should have already been included in […]