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17
December

PocketMod

Written by Adnan Rashid. 1 comment Posted in: General
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The PocketMod is a small book with guides on each page. These guides or templates, combined with a unique folding style, enable a normal piece of paper to become the ultimate note card. The application provides templates in various categories like Writing Guides, Calendars, Games, etc. Some of these templates provide options for customization. It’s [...]

13
August

SQL Injection Scanner

Written by Adnan Rashid. No comments Posted in: Development
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Being a web developer, its important we realize the threat and severity of SQL Injection. Unfortunately detecting such vulnerabilities is time-consuming and eventually we might not even be able to identify all the loop holes.
HP Security Labs provides a free tool called Scrawlr that scan your site and patches up the exploits. This great tool [...]

16
July

CSS Compressor

Written by Adnan Rashid. No comments Posted in: Development, User Interface
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As a web designer, we use resources like CSS and javascript. These files should be optimized using compression for reducing the file size and hence the load time.
To decrease the file size web designers can follow 3 guidelines:

Remove whitespace like tabs, spaces, blank lines, etc.
Remove unused CSS classes and ID’s.
Use shorthand wherever applicable. For example [...]

08
July

Compare Fonts

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I was designing a template for a web application and i wanted to try out something new. The user interface revolves around a compatible set of layout, colors, images and fonts. So i was Googling for a tool to help me compare Fonts and thier web compatibility. I came across a great tool called Typetester. [...]

07
July

Picnik Online Image Editing

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Although we cant all be photo image editing experts, tools like this can definitely help you come very close. Picknik provides a clean and easy user interface that will get you started on tweaking your favorite images in no time. With an abundant set of Fonts, special effects and other advanced settings, this tool is [...]