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Website testing across 17 Windows browsers on your Mac

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Litmus has released Alkaline 1.0 for Mac OS X. It’s a cross-browser testing tool for web designers and developers, letting them test their website designs on 17 different Windows browsers right from their Mac desktop in seconds.

According to the folks at Litmus, since Alkaline uses a vast remote grid of Windows computers to gather website screen shots, no installation of Windows is required, nor is any other additional software.

Using Alkaline in combination with Coda and Textmate plug-ins gives the best possible testing experience. It allows for instant cross-browser webs site testing from right inside these coding tools.

Alkaline was developed for Litmus by Shiny Development. It’s available with Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) or higher.

Alkaline 1.0 is free of charge to test web site designs in two browsers (Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0 on Windows). To access all 17 available web browsers the user can either purchase a 24 hour pass for US$24 or a monthly subscription for $49 per month.

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Convert HTML Websites into PDF

Monday, March 30th, 2009

I have come across a very useful web tool called HTML-PDF-Converter. It’s a simple service to convert the web pages to PDF files. No need to install applications on your computer. It’s completely free and without registration!

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On some occasions you might want or need to convert a website or a specific web page into a PDF document. For example, if you come across a really interesting article or a fabulous web page that you want to save locally in your computer for future reference.

You just need to type the URL of the website or page, and in a matter of seconds a download window will open asking where you want to save the PDF document.

Give it a try and do comment if you found it useful! 

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Converting to a vegetarian lifestyle?

Monday, March 30th, 2009

I believe that healthy eating is fine – be it vegetarian or non-vegetarian. Too much of anything is harmful. From experience I believe that a mixed diet, whch is rightly balanced, is apt for all. But we need to figure out the best diet that suits us.

Having tried vegetarianism just after college, I can confidently comment on being a vegetarian. My stint with vegetarianism lasted 8 long years. It went well at first - I felt great - but I felt more and more exhausted as time went by. The problem was that I simply wasn’t consuming enough calories (which I found out later) Moreover I missed the mouth watering dishes that I used to consume earlier. Thus, if you try vegetarianism, make sure to include a lot of higher-calorie items in your diet.

I am not anti-vegetarian, just expressing my feelings and my experience. Feel free to share and express your views.

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Promote your website and increase online traffic

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Wondering about how to promote your newly created website and get it off the ground? Well, here is a very simple lightweight solution. And you also have the additional benefit that you do not need to be a developer to do this.

 

You must have seen this button in many websites and blogs.

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In case you haven’t seen this anywhere, check out the website crickees.com. Look at the extreme right corner. Crickees.com uses a customized version of the standard button.

 

Addthis – The #1 bookmarking and sharing service helps you and your website users to share content with the help of one button. By making sharing easy for your users you can ensure that that your content gets promoted and your website traffic gets boosted. You can also track how users are sharing your content by using their free usage analytics. Use the data to optimize your site and how you want to share it. Boosting traffic back to your page increases your search engine rankings. Isn’t it great?  

 

So how exactly do you do this?

 

Go to addthis.com and click on “Get your button”

Select the button you want and a code is generated for you. Copy and paste the code snippet into your pages and voila you are done! Try it out!

 

One button and your content everywhere!

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