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Macromedia Flash Player Version Penetration Statistics

Worldwide Ubiquity of Macromedia Flash by Version (NPD Online - Worldwide Survey). A good reference for anyone who needs to know what versions and how broad the user/installed base is.

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Miscellaneous

The Story of Macromedia (from their point-of-view)

Flash presentation of the multi-eras of Macromedia's history and current future. A must-watch before anyone buys them up later this (2005) year!

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MySQL

phpMyAdmin & phpMyAdmin themes

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web.

Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges,export data into various formats and is available in 48 languages. Read More

Internet Explorer

Avant Browser - an tabbed-browsing IE

Jealous of tabbed web browsers, basically all browsers except IE so far?! Avant Browser, an upgrade to Internet Explorer, is a fast, stable, user-friendly, versatile multi-window browser. Avant Browser is available in 39 languages.

Avant Browser is freeware. No limitations. No Adware. No Spyware. You can donate if you want, but it's certainly not required.

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Internet Explorer

Flash Saving Plugin

Flash Saving Plugin lets you easily save Flash movies right from Internet Explorer. Finally! There's no need to rummage about in the browser cache anymore! If your browser is Internet Explorer, then a button is added to the Internet Explorer toolbar.

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Tools/Software

ActionScript Highlighter v2 & code Beautifier

Paste your Actionscript (1.0 or 2.0) code and get a colored (highlighted) version immediately back!

If you do any code showing, like group teaching, articles/tutorials, documentation, and need a quick (free) way to color-code your printed syntax - this is a great start!

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Firefox (Mozilla)

Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts (vs. other popular browsers)

A nice list of keyboard shortcuts for Firefox. Pay attention to the tabs/tabbed-browsing shortcuts, great ones there!

A great resource for any web-surfer using the power of Firefox!

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Web Design Inspiration & Reference

Juicy Studio: Readability Test

Writting is still a form of art. Gunning Fog, Flesch Reading Ease, and Flesch-Kincaid are reading level algorithms that can be helpful in determining how readable your content is.

Reading level algorithms only provide a rough guide, as they tend to reward short sentences made up of short words. Whilst they're rough guides, they can give a useful indication as to whether you've pitched your content at the right level for your intended audience.

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CSS

sIFR 2.0: Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses

The method, dubbed sIFR (or Scalable Inman Flash Replacement), is the result of many hundreds of hours of designing, scripting, testing, and debugging... completely rebuilt a DOM replacement method... into a typography solution for the masses. It is this technology which provides the nice looking custom type headlines you see on sites like this one, Nike, ABCNews, Aston Martin, and others.

[We've] released sIFR to the world as open source, under the CC-GNU LGPL license, so anyone can use it free of charge.

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Firefox (Mozilla)

Aardvark - Firefox extension

As you glide the mouse over the page, you will see a red rectangle framing each element under the cursor. You will also see a little yellow caption showing the HTML element type and its class or id if they exist.

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