Mar 042008
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When I run across great products, I like to mention them when I remember. So, now that I remember, here goes:
There are some items that I use that make life easier, or perhaps speedier. They reside outside of the bag and so, sometimes, get overlooked quite easily.
- Lexar Professional UDMA Dual Slot Reader: Without a doubt, this is the fastest card reader that I have used. I saw it mentioned on Paul Butzi’s site a month or so ago. When I put my cards into the slot, I’m just amazed at how fast they download into Lightroom. I can download 200, 5-15 MB JPEG files in a matter of minutes, usually about 2 or less minutes! At $39.95, it’s a heck of a deal and it saves a lot of time!
- CSS Stylizer: One day, after going through CSS hell and not enjoying it, I looked for something that would make changing my website a bit easier. Quite frankly, this piece of software is indispensable. It will allow you to open up a website, see the stylesheets, and make changes to them to see what effects they would have on the web page. You can then save style sheet locally and make it your own. Or, you can start from scratch and build your own style sheet. The cost is only $49.97 for the license, which includes 3 months of free upgrades. There is a free download available, which grants you use for 30 days. If you want to make changes to a site using CSS, I highly recommend using this tool
- Magellan eXplorist 210: This is sometimes in the bag and sometimes out, but I thought that I’d give it a good mention. I bought this at Wal-mart for about $30 because it is a discontinued model. It’s great for marking locations that you wish to return to. It has a convenient display that will show you where the sun and moon are located on the horizon, and is an all around good GPS. No, it doesn’t connect to the camera … I’m not that geeky just yet. Although I do do Geocaching with my son on some weekends and this little guy comes in handy for playing high-tech hide and seek!
Well, that wraps up all that I can think of for right now.
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On “CSS Stylizer,” what just Windoz…no Mac version?
For those discerning readers out there using a Mac, I’d recommend a similar product called “CSSEdit. Highly recommended at $29.95.
See, Earl! They already knew that there was a product out there for Mac. Not all of us have gotten off of Windoze … yet!
Hmm, sounds interesting. I’ll give Stylizer a spin and see what it adds to Dreamweaver… So thanks for the info! Oh, btw., the trialphase is only 14 days.
@Thomas: They must have changed it. I had 30. I guess that they thought that 30 was too much of a good thing.
Hi Paul,
We changed Stylizer from a 14 unique day trial to a 14 consecutive day trial. We found out that there A LOT of occasional web designers out there…so 14 unique days ended up being more like 14 weeks…
@Paul Young: Thanks for checking in! I guess my trial was 14 unique days. I wondered why it lasted so long. Thanks for the extra time!