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Turn your mockups into prototypes and get feedback fast

Resize is a Safari Extension that lets you resize Safari window to any size with just a single click, full customizable.

A simple, useful and beautiful browser window resize app for Web designers and developers.

open source CSS builder for shadows, backgrounds, and borders

There are tools that make our lives much easier. However, finding those obscure time-savers which would save time in every single project isn't easy and requires a lot of time. At Smashing Magazine, we are regularly looking for such useful tools, gather them, review them and eventually prepare for a truly smashing round-up. Such posts are quite lengthy and extensive, but they are always worth checking out.

What is so special about this pencil that its devotees will accept no substitute and make them willing to spend $250.00 for a box of them?

… wireframing, mockups and prototyping for websites and applications

Wireframes on the fly … an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.

The simple concept of a screw driver on your key ring is not new. Nobody has made a high quality key ring screwdriver for the last 10 years, until now. They are constructed of heat treated, blackened steel. They are so simple, there's not much more to say about them. (One Phillips and One Straight Blade)

Enter the URL of any CSS file to view and modify its color spectrum

Download the desktop version of Balsamiq. Works offline, one-time purchase.

The Grid Layout Javascript enables web-developers to stick to a Grid Layout quickly and simply by including the Grid Layouts Javascript file and simple XHTML code. Currently, the Grid Layouts Javascript relies on jQuery.

drag and drop icon/button maker

What is freeCSScart? Imagine the ability to make a shopping-cart look the way you want. No, not just be able change the background color of a table, but completely change the form and function of a shopping cart with a switch of your css file. Now imagine

RGB and COLOR search engine. All you need to match your RGB and color data with paint, ink, color standards and commercial color collections.

See related links to what you are looking for.

Big Player opens UI Library

Free Photoshop browser templates for professional webdesigners and screendesigners

Posterous alts, 2: , in no order of merit. Thank you, Twitterspere.

Your own handwriting on your computer!