Archives for April, 2007

Email marketing tool

Posted by Phill on Monday, April 30, 2007 at 10:46 pm. 0 Comments.

During my search for ways to send bulk email effectively I came across a company Mailchimp that have an online email marketing product, which is so simple it gives you that “why didn’t I think of that?” feeling. They have provided the design guidelines which are to help you avoid the dreaded spam filters and [...]

Filed under Lifehacks, Recommendations.

How to work with Visio files on the Mac

Posted by Phill on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 5:10 pm. 0 Comments.

There’s no MS Visio for OS X, so if you need to open and work with Visio files on the Mac you’ll need a copy of OmniGraffle Pro. If like me, you tried to open a .vsd file only to find OmniGraffle can’t open them, try this free online conversion tool which will convert .vsd [...]

Filed under Lifehacks, Tech-tips.

Firebug is easily the best extension for Firefox

Posted by Phill on Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 7:37 pm. 0 Comments.

If you’re a developer or tester, you simply need to get the Firebug add-on. I’ve lost track of the amount of times its helped me but the latest time was testing some Flash content that was developed by a design agency. The agency used swfObject to do the Flash detection and setting variables and was [...]

Filed under Creating websites, Recommendations.