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Like my Colors?

If you like the colors that I used in this site or other sites for that matter, you can easily check them out using I Like Your Colors. It’s a useful tool for gathering color data from sites that uses CSS for styling.

What the app does is extract the color codes found on the CSS styles. You can also see those codes using Firebug (Firefox Extension) but this is much easier and faster. Just remember that this tool is not effective in gathering color information from flash enabled sites and those that uses images for most parts of the web design. If you want to check out the colors used in an image(s) you can use Whatsitscolors for that or use the eyedropper tool in Photoshop.

There are so many websites out there featuring different color combinations in their design. If you are interested in those colors, you can use the tools that I’ve mentioned. Have fun coloring your sites.

Tags: color code, Ilikeyourcolors, whatsitscolor

BackupURL: Create Cached Copy of Any URL

Here’s a simple tool that you can use to create backup of pages that you found online. BackupURL makes it easy for you to create a cached copy of any web page. All you have to do is enter the URL of the page you want cached. What BackupURL does is store that page to their servers so that you can view them even if the site goes down.

This can be useful for creating copies of pages that tend to go down from time to time, that is if BackupURL itself doesn’t go down on you. It can also be used to save data that are often deleted or modified. If you made a comment on a page or a blog post and concerned that it may get deleted or modified by the owner, this might come in handy in providing proof.

You will be given a URL for your cached page and a short URL is also provided for easy sharing on micro blogs. This might not be your everyday app but it’s worth checking out especially for site owners. It might come in handy sometime.

Tags: backup, BackupURL, Cache, URL, Web Pages

Aviary’s Raven Launches – Free Online Vector Editor

Raven is the latest addition to Aviary’s growing family of browser-based design tools. If you’re not familiar with Aviary, it’s one of the most powerful online design suite there is, combined with an awesome community of artists participating and sharing their designs. The latest tool that they released (Raven) is a Vector editor.

Now, you can create advanced vectors from your browser. You can also use Raven to make logos, clip-arts and T-shirt designs. It’s the first ever online Vector editor there is so it’s worth checking out especially for designers. If you’re new to Aviary, there are lots of beginner design tutorials that are available for you in their tutorial page. Check out Raven in action on the video below.

Tags: aviary, Design, online editor, Raven, Vector, Vector Art, Vector Editor

The Good and the Baad

Most social voting sites have rating scripts to judge if a post or topic deserves to be read. There are sites that feature only the up vote button, some uses stars to balance the ratings and there are those that only allow two sided votes. The classic 1 and 0, yes or no, thumbs up, thumbs down,black and white good or bad.

GoodBaad is one of those social voting sites where everything is black and white. Well, the site itself looks black and white but with shades of grey. I guess it’s only for design purposes. Good Baad aims to be the definitive record of public opinion. They hope to present the statistics that interest you in the most simple, uncluttered manner. Yes people, it’s just black and white for these guys, strong opinions about certain topics that interest its users.

We hope these stats will act as a useful basis for blog posts, articles and debates. When using this site as a source please link back to us – the more users we have the more useful the information becomes. We plan to add widgets to make adding our features to your sites and social networks easier.

Those of you who are up for debates about a certain topic, you can consider Good Baad as a place to ignite the fire leading to more interesting discussions.

Tags: Debate, Good Baad, social networks, social voting, Topics, Vote

TinyChat: Easiest Way to Create a Simple Chatroom

Having trouble making a good conversation on Twitter with its 140 text limit? Tweet them a TinyChat. It’s a chat application that lets you create a chat room in just a few clicks. No login required. Just make them like you make TinyUrls.

TinyChat creates a simple chat room for you. You can share the chatroom URL or embed it to your website. I’m just not sure on how long the created chat room will last but it’s great for those long public conversations with a bunch of people. If you’re not yet ready to hand out your IM to people you just met online, this might probably do the trick for you.

You can place a TinyChat badge on your websites (like the one above). It displays the number of people in the chatroom.

*Forum codes are also available

Tags: Chat, Chatroom, twitter, widget

RateMyAnimations: Draw, Animate, Share

RateMyAnimations is a community powered site where you can create animations and share them anywhere. If you’re familiar with Rate My Drawings, a really cool drawing community with a great online drawing tool and a rocking share widget that displays an animation of the drawing being created right from where the artist made the first stroke. RateMyAnimations is a sister site of RateMyDrawings as you might already have guessed.

Additional features for video editing are added to the RateMyAnimation’s editor. The animation tool is basically a tweaked version of the drawing tool found in RateMyDrawings. Since the site is a community for artists, the animation editor does not let you upload pre existing images. You must create your animation from scratch by drawing. It would be nice though if they would allow you to upload or integrate your work from RateMyDrawings. This will give RMD artists to experiment with animation using their previous creations without having to draw them all over again. Anyway, the animation editor is still on beta so there should be more features coming soon.

Tags: Animate, animation, Artists, draw, Rate My Animation