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Misc. online tools and software. Some designer specific and others a little more 'quirky'.

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Not sure how You Tube feels about this - Vixy allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos, etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online using a compressed domain transcoder technology. It converts FLV to MPEG4 faster and less lossy than a typical transcoder. Simply submit a You Tube url, and the site will download and convert to the video format you've selected. Site is sometimes slow, due I suspect to the bandwidth-hogging technology involved.
http://vixy.com
(Clicks: 5; Comments: 0; Listing added: Dec 6, 2007) Listing Details Report Broken  Listing
The Markup Validator is a free service by W3C that helps check the validity of Web documents. Most Web documents are written using markup languages, such as HTML or XHTML. These languages are defined by technical specifications, which usually include a machine-readable formal grammar (and vocabulary). The act of checking a document against these constraints is called validation, and this is what the Markup Validator does. This validator can process documents written in most markup languages. Supported document types include the HTML (through HTML 4.01) and XHTML (1.0 and 1.1) family, MathML, SMIL and SVG (1.0 and 1.1, including the mobile profiles). The Markup Validator can also validate Web documents written with an SGML or XML DTD, provided they use a proper document type declaration.
http://validator.w3.org/
(Clicks: 1; Comments: 0; Listing added: Dec 18, 2007) Listing Details Report Broken  Listing
Open source web apps to make your next web design project a snap. Updated daily.
http://www.webappers.com
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News, photo & video sharing. Use YourMixx to tailor the content categories, tags, specific users and private groups—even RSS feeds—and we'll deliver the top-rated content as chosen by you and people who share your passions. So go ahead and whip up your own version of the web. Just tell us how you like it Mixxed and we'll deliver the best the web has to offer—morning, noon and night. Invite friends and family to a private group.
http://www.mixx.com/
(Clicks: 1; Comments: 0; Listing added: Dec 6, 2007) Listing Details Report Broken  Listing
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b2evolution is a powerful blog tool you can install on your own website. Includes all the features of traditional blog tools like WordPress, but extends them with evolved features such as file & photo management, advanced skinning, multiple blogs support as well as detailed user permissions. Third party plug-ins support. Free, open-source (GPL), it runs on virtually any webserver featuring PHP+MySQL and it's available in a wide range of languages. b2evolution also generates web pages dynamically from the MySQL database, so no clumsy 'rebuilding' is involved. It also means faster search/display capabilities, and the ability to serve your posts/news in different 'templates' or 'skins' without any hassle.
http://b2evolution.net/
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WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted (and free) blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. This is the gear that we use on almost all our blog sites. Easy to use, espcially if you don't know code (requires a little bit of MYSQL setup beforehand, but many webhosts offer pre-configured database access).
http://wordpress.org
(Clicks: 2; Comments: 0; Listing added: Dec 6, 2007) Listing Details Report Broken  Listing
Vbulletin is one of the most widely used forum platforms around. Its default blue skin is pretty nasty, so most designers want to tinker as soon as the gear is installed, whether it's for their own site, or their clients. Here's a soups to nuts tutorial on how to skin Vbulletin (works with 3.5). Not for the faint of heart, or those expecting a 5 minute quick-fix. This is an exhaustive guide that gives all the details.
http://opserty.com/tut/vb/
(Clicks: 2; Comments: 0; Listing added: Dec 8, 2007) Listing Details Report Broken  Listing
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