Placehold.it
Placehold.it is a “quick and simple image placeholder service” for web designers and developers. To use, simply format the URL with the image size details of your choice and the image is created dynamically. For example, the following URL generated the image above: http://www.placehold.it/570×300. Various image formats, colors, and placeholder text can also be specified.
Support Details
While trying to recreate/fix bugs uncovered by clients, I often find myself asking questions such as “what browser are you using?” and “what version of Flash do you have installed?”. As some clients are less tech-savvy than others, these questions are not always easily answered.
There is hope however. Imulus Design + Interactive has developed www.supportdetails.com, a simple web application that allows your clients to send you all the relevant details of their setup by just entering their email address and name and your email address. In fact, they don’t even have to do that much if you direct them to a “customized” link with the relevant contact info already entered (Mac geek tip: setup a TextExpander snippet of the link pre-filled with your email address as the recipient).
Check out http://www.supportdetails.com
TinyGrab Rocks
Recently, I came across TinyGrab while reading Derek Punslalan’s blog, 5THIRTYONE. Simply put – TinyGrab is a screen capture utility that instantly uploads your selection to the Web and then copies an obscure URL to your clipboard for easy sharing. There are a TON of screenshot utilities out there (as well as Snow Leopard’s improved handling of screen captures) but the simple purity of TinyGrab’s approach made it an instant favorite in my daily toolkit. I highly recommend checking it out.
