So you are building your AJAX-enabled web site and want a nice animated gif to indicate to your users that something is happening behind the screen.
You google for images and all you find are those traditional black and white animated gifs. What if you need it in blue background and yellow foreground? Like this nice one below... ;)

Well, just go here and generate your image just the way you need it!

Reencoded has recently posted an article featuring 10 tools help designers to layout a grid using CSS. This should be a time saver for those creating a layout from scratch and want to free of table-based layout. Who uses that anyways? No, really I wanna know because everywhere I look people are using css for the layout of their pages.

I downloaded and installed today the Netbeans 6.7 and for my surprise its IDE was in Portuguese. I prefer using the IDE in English, so I tried to change it using the way I remembered from previous versions, i.e. at the Tools menu. As it happens, it is not possible to change the language of the IDE through the interface, because it is based on the locale of your machine.

Do you need to check how your website look on combination of browsers under different operating systems? Try entering the URL on the first page of the browsershots website.
Just choose the browsers you want to test under each operating system (no MAC OS available) the browsershots service will produce a series of images which area available online for 30 minutes, but that you can download and save for a more careful analysis.

Using telnet in Cygwin is very easy, but most people does not realize that it is not installed by default, therefore when you try to run telnet on a Cygwin shell you are instantly returned to the prompt. This happens because Cygwin finds the Microsoft telnet installed in your windows box and runs it; but this won't work in a Cygwin shell. To find out if this is the source of your problems type:

    $ which telnet
    /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/telnet

If you host your site using Drupal CMS and want to use Google Webmaster Tools to increase it's visibility in Google search results, but you do not want to mess with your templates, php or site blocks, there is a very easy way to do it. Just use a URL Alias. Here is how:

1. Log on to your Google Webmaster Tools account
2. At your homepage, click on the "Add a Site" button and click on continue