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HTML-Ipsum

HTML-Ipsum is the coolest simple tool I have seen in a long time and I can’t believe I never thought of it.

All site builders use Lorem Ipsum of course, but It’s always been a pain to add 10 paragraphs of it to your code to push the page down. You have to go back in and add 20 P tags to verify the styling too. This is just a great time-saver. Plus the long UL’s so they break to 2 lines. How handy is that.

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ThemeForest - Best templates on the web

Web Templates, WordPress Themes - ThemeForest
Never really had much patience for templates in the past until I found this site. They are cheap and very well coded and big on standards(good thing).

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Creating a Stunning Digital Smoke Effect

Creating a Stunning Digital Smoke Effect - PSDTUTS
There are always 10 ways to achieve the same effect in PS. It’s also easy to do once you know how to do one of them. That said, there’s always an effect you see and like but can’t seem to reproduce. Others have and that’s how the medium grows.
This is Illustrator also but no matter, it opens doors.

Free and simple CMS

CushyCMS.com
This really is something special. All you have to do is take your already built and hosted website and add ‘ class=”cushycms” ‘
to any tag you want to allow the client to modify.

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MenuMatic

MenuMatic Horizontal Example
My new favorite navigation. Check out the demo on the page.
Easy set up, it also detects screen edges and reorients drops/fly’s to stay on the screen.

The Landlord from Will Ferrell and Adam “Ghost Panther” McKay

The Landlord from Will Ferrell and Adam “Ghost Panther” McKay

Geek Parenting: Star Wars According To A 3-Year-Old

Geek Parenting: Star Wars According To A 3-Year-Old

Firefox - Open all in tabs:
What the!? Where’d my other tabs go?

If you’re reading this, you probably know what I’m talking about.
When you have bookmarks in sub folders, you can choose to open all of them with one click. This is a great feature and I use it all the time. For instance, most mornings I open 10 news bookmarks with one click. Really, it’s quite the timesaver.

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