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My site is worth $196.
How much is yours worth?

So, I strongly doubt the accuracy of this tool but I found it to be fun regardless.

This free tool will analyze your site, and let you know how well it’s being monetized, and what value you could sell it for.

Really???

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Well, I upgraded to IE7 and boy am I NOT glad that I did. But I needed to see how a project I am working on looked in Internet Explorer 7. Come to find out that it looked great in Firefox and IE6 but not in IE7. So I upgraded to IE7 made some changes to the site and now it looks great in Firefox and IE7 but not in IE6. As you can imagine at this point I was about ready to kill Internet Explorer. Not sure how I would do that but I could wish anyway.

Moral of the story is if you need two versions of Internet Explorer installed on your machine, don’t use MultipleIEs. It is buggy and caused my internet connection to become intermittent. So if you have IE7 installed and want to see how your site renders in IE6, you can use IE NetRenderer. It allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6, or 5.5, as seen from a high speed datacenter located in Germany. Just type in a URL in the text field, select the Internet Explorer version, and there you have it.

This web rendering tool is ideally suited for web designers working on Apple iMac and Linux workstations. It allows you to verify web designs natively on all popular Internet Explorer versions, without the need to set aside several physical or virtual Microsoft Windows PCs just for that purpose.

Now that’s a great tool to remember!

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There is nothing more appealing on a website than a nice, beautiful, colorful picture… don’t you think? Me too. There is also nothing better than finding photos and images that you can use for free. And I’m not just talking royalty free but I am talking free free. Here is a list of sites where you will find free photos and images that you are free to use.

• 9×13
• Aarin
• aboutpixel
• Abstract Influence
• Afflict
• Amazing Textures
• AMG Media Works
• amygdela’s atmosphere
• ARTFAVOR
• Backgrounds Archive
• Barry’s Free Photos
• Big Foto
• BurningWell
• Cepolina
• Creating Online
• Creative Commons Search
• creativity103
• cromavista
• DesignPacks
• DexHaus
• DHD Multimedia Gallery
• Digital Dreamer
• diwiesign
• Flickr Creative Commons
• FontPlay Free Photos
• Four Bees
• Free Digital Photos
• Free Images
• Free Photographs
• Free Photos
• Free Stock Photos
• Free Stock Photos
• Photogen
• FreeFoto
• FreePhotosBank
• FreePhotoStation
• FreePixels
• freerange
• freshpics
• Geek Philosopher
• Gimp Savvy
• Holy Land Photos
• Image * After
• imagebase
• ImageBlowout
• Iron Orchid
• KAVEWALL
• LIGHTmatter
• Majestic Imagery
• Mayang’s Free Textures
• morgueFile
• morguefile
• NOAA Photo Library
• One Odd Dude
• PD Photo
• Photo Rack
• PhotoRogue
• Pictures from Old Books
• Pix @ Halal
• Pixel Perfect Digital
• Pixelio
• Public Domain Photos
• Rutmane
• stock.xchng
• Stockcache
• Stockvault.net
• Studio25
• TextureWarehouse
• tOfz.org
• twicepix
• Unprofound
• USDA Gallery
• Vintage Pixels
• Visipix
• Woophy
• ZURBphotos

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Firefox is great! Why? Because it has some of the greatest extensions you could think of. I used to be the type of person that completely refused to use Firefox simply because IE6 was more prevalent. I am sure glad a friend of mine talked me into giving Firefox a try because I don’t know where I would be without it. And now for my list of the Best Firefox Extensions known to man… I mean me. (Of course this will be a subjective post but I thought it would be fun to write anyway)

1. Fast Video Download - This extension allows you to easily save embedded video files from video-hosting servers such as Google Video, iFilm, My Space, YouTube, and several others.
2. Gmail Notifier - This extension lets you monitor multiple Gmail accounts right inside your browser’s user interface.
3. Live PageRank - This extension displays Google’s PageRank for the page you are on. Despite having a few glitches this is still a great extension especially if you don’t want to install the Google Toolbar.
4. Restart Firefox - This extension is named appropriately. It is great for when you install themes or extensions and need to restart Firefox but are not given the option.
5. Screengrab! - I can’t tell you how many times this extension has come in handy. It will save what you can see in the window, the entire page, just a selection, or a particular frame. It basically saves web pages as images.
6. StumbleUpon - This is the most fun extension I have come across. You select what categories interest you, hit a button and it takes you to the best-reviewed sites on the web that pertain to the categories selected.
7. View Source Chart - This extension is simple in features but will save you some headaches and time. It draws a color-coded chart of a web page’s source code. Try viewing the source code of Yahoo.com with and without this extension and you will see what I mean.
8. Web Developer - If you are a web developer, then this is the extension of all extensions. I can’t describe all of its features but it adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools. If you were only allowed to have one extension installed, then the Web Developer extension would be number 1 on my list!

If you are a fellow Firefox die hard, then please share with me your favorite Firefox extensions so that I may become even more infatuated with this wonderful browser than I already am.

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