1. FileZilla

FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client with lots of handy features.  The program lets you transfer files and navigate among folders, Web sites, and your computer. This software enables you to perform multiple file transfers simultaneously.It supports resume on both downloads and uploads, timeout detection, firewall support, SOCKS4/5 and HTTP1.1 support, SSL, SFTP and more, all with an intuitive drag and drop interface.

FileZilla is no monster, either, eating up a manageable 50 MB in memory. If your bandwidth is somewhat limited, you’ll appreciate a feature that lets you automatically adjust transfer speeds based on the time of day or date. A nice program for beginners and advanced user alike.

2. Widerbug

Widerbug is a tweaked version of Firebug that has been specifically designed for widescreen monitors. Firebug is a Firefox add on which helps designers and developers to perform the live management, directly in the web browser of the HTML, CSS or JavaScript code through various editing debugging and monitoring tools.

Instead of dividing the computer screen vertically it divides it horizontally by displaying the Firebug information in a sidebar on the right side of the web browser.  The panels maintain their connection to each tab, doing away with the phantom code effect found in Firebug when you try to coax it into wide screen mode. Widerbug is a free extension and works wherever Firefox does.

3. Abduzeedo

Abduzeedo is powered by drupal and developed by Fabio Sasso, a Brazilian designer living in Porto Alegre. The blog covers everything from adobe photoshop,inspiration,tutorials and anything design related.

Abduzeedo is such a great resource of inspirations and tutorials, with their daily inspirations post, the Web pick, their beautiful selections of wallpaper. Those Brazilian web lovers and graphic designers offer some of the best of internet inspirations and Graphic Design

4. 960 Gridder

960 Gridder is an excellent tool for any web developer/ designer that wants to easily align, match and/or lay out websites. 960 Gridder is cross-browser compliant and works well in Internet Explorer 6/7/8, Firefox 2/3 and Chrome. You can either use as an integrated component to layout your websites or use it as a bookmarklet. The grid is fully customizable but it defaults to the “960px grid standard”. 960 Gridder will automatically identify if jQuery is present at the website and if it is not, it will include it. It injects your website of choice and you can then work with this tool to help you out with whichever layout/design task you find it useful for. By default, it is set to work with 12 columns, 60 pixel wide columns with a 10 pixel spacer left and right of the column, making it a 20 pixel wide gutter.

5.  ColorRotate

ColorRotate 3d color rotate is a color effect plug-in for iMovie  with a heavy dose of eye candy and easy-to-use controls.  The default setup for ColorRotate is a 3D diamond shape, which you use to set the tint, hue, and the blending for your palette. If you prefer a more traditional appearance, you can switch it over to a series of sliders. You can create a completely new palette or browse through popular user-created palettes, or modify them.

Palettes can be created in a variety of color schemes including RGB, CMYK, and LAB. For another interesting way to generate a color palette. If you create an account, you can save your palettes, but even without an account you can export palettes in .ACT format, which allows for import into Adobe products.

6. Smush.it

Smush it allows you to automate image optimization by using the best of open source algorithms to achieve the smallest, high performance images possible. Smush.it offers an API that performs these optimizations (except for stripping JPEG meta data) automatically, and this plugin seamlessly integrates Smush.it with WordPress.

It appears as a small icon in the status bar at the bottom of the Firefox window. Just right-click on it and then left-click on Run Smush It! The website will be submitted to Smush It! and a report will be displayed showing which images can be improved. You can also run your existing images through Smush.it via the WordPress Media Library.

7. Folionow

FolioNow.com they offer the service of helping people create websites quickly and easily, and making them very media rich as well so they show up higher in Google and Yahoo searches. FolioNow allows you the ability to upload videos, photos, audio and anything else you want to share, import your YouTube videos, Flickr galleries, blog feeds and more, add titles and descriptions to your content (if you want to), decide how you want your content to be displayed, decide where you want your content to be published.

8. LetsEat.at

LetsEat.at provides free websites for restaurants and chefs. Through this site, you’ll be able to create a website for your restaurant, bar, or café.  With a LetsEat.at website, hosting is a matter of signing up, designing a matter of choosing a theme, updating a matter of signing-in. The site is completely yours and completely free. One very interesting feature is the fact that you can create printable coupons through the site. This will let you advertise your site online, and get more and more people to know about it by accessing your site for savings

9. YAML Builder

Yet Another Multicolumn Layout is a highly versatile (X)HTML/CSS framework, released under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License (CC-A 2.0) and can be downloaded at yaml.de/en/ . Its fully compatible with the Simple Project Example so that you can copy/paste all builder output directly into the appropriate files in the project folders. Have fun with the new release.

Column sizes automatically adjust with the browser window. Moreover, YAML compensates for the column layout incompatibilities of different browsers. CSS layouts can be generated that are compatible with content produced by several CMS frameworks such as Drupal and Typo3. YAML has been licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License (CC-A 2.0), which means that it permits both the non-commercial and the commercial use of the framework, for free, on the condition that a backlink to the project homepage remains in the layout.

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