It’s been another 2 weeks, so here is another wrap up of the tools, links, and other sites that came across my various readers, etc… It could be a good resource, an interesting blog post, or anything I found useful since the last Web Tools Tips and Talk, #7.

NOTE: If you find these useful please note this is not my full list of links, tools and news. As I come across links for use, I add them all to my Effective Development Delicious.com page.
Sometimes I come across a quick throw away link that I don’t want to wait for the Wrap-Up. Those links I send out as I find them on my Twitter account.
Finally, you can always follow my RSS Feed and check out the Tools Tips and Talk Archive.

Feel free to suggest other links in the comments.

Web Tools

• mobify – There are a few tools out there that do this, but this site creates a slimmed down mobile compatible version of your site. They have free and paid options, but it look like a good place to get your feet wet in the mobile market.
• Notify Mee – Ever have a site you frequent often go down? (ahem…Twitter, Google) When a site you own or use is down, and you want to know when it comes back, simply go here, enter the url, and the email where you’d like to be notified, and they will send you a status when its safe to go back.
• Convert PDF to Word – Upload a PDF, click convert, and you will receive a word Doc (DOC). Simple, free, useful. Sometimes that’s all you need.
• Iconza – Customizable icons for your web site. – Create custom icons to use for free on your site. Tweak the style, size, and color.

Web Talk/Blogs

• DeepTrawl Helps Webmasters Find & Fix Site Errors Quickly, Simply – Quick review of a pretty good tool that traverses/spiders your site looking for typos, broken images and links. You can even schedule it to run at set times and get a report.
• Google Wave: A Complete Guide – I realize Google Wave was announced a few weeks ago, but if you want to weed through the hype, or just missed the discussion Mashable has put together a great guide.
• Monitor Content Copying On Your Site Using Tynt Tracer – Good article discussing a tool that you can setup to check if others are plagiarizing your content. If you are paranoid, or even if you share your content openly and are curious, check out this tool.
• Google Docs gets x’ier with .docx and .xlsx support – Google now supports the x extension that is common in the newest versions of Office. docx, xlsx, etc…
• Adobe service puts browsers side by side – Interesting tool from Adobe called BrowserLab to help you view your site across multiple browsers simultaneously. There are a few ways to do this already, and as a developer/designer, you may already have your favorite. but, Adobe makes good products, so its worth checking out before they start charging for it.

Web Tips/Resources

• EntityCode – A Clear and Quick Reference to HTML Symbol Entities Codes – Simple HTML reference for those quirky HTML codes you sometimes need. Like registered trademark, copyright, dollar and currency signs, etc… Bookmark this one, you’ll need it someday.
• 10 HTML Tag Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit – Tutorial I found from twitter.com/KISSmetrics reviewing some simple HTML best practices. Or rather bad practices to avoid.
• OOPhoto – Another Attempt At Learning Object Oriented Programming (OOP) In ColdFusion – Ben nadel writes great instructional programming series. This one focuses on writing a photo gallery on ColdFusion, with a focus on Object Oriented Design. If any of these facts interest you, check it out.
• Useful checks to test for XSS attacks on your ColdFusion site – Quick post that discusses how to check if your ColdFusion site is vulnerable to XSS (Cross Site Scripting Attacks)
• How To Change Default Webpage Source Editor Of Browsers – Want to view browser source in Notepad, or notepad++? This quick tutorial tells you how to change the default viewer for various popular browsers.
• Effective Strategy To Estimate Time For Your Design Projects – I wrote a post about estimating resources and projects this week. Coincidently Smashing Magazine also ran a really good article about this topic. Its a very good read, with a lot of details.

Enjoy, and have a good weekend.
Post any good resources or links you use in the comments.

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