Colors for the web

Do you need to find interesting photos that would enhance your website and would perfectly match its color scheme? I found a perfect tool for that job.

Multicolr Search Lab by Idée Inc.

And these are the images that match colors of my blog:

1. orange
   


2. orange & blue
   


3. blue
   

Firefox 3

I, like many others, downloaded Firefox 3 yesterday. It was an attempt for a Guinness World Record titled Spread Firefox. The result was more than 8 million downloads in a single day. Quite impressive!

I did not have time to install it yesterday as I was on a holiday, busy attending Google Developer Day 2008. See my photos on Flickr. I met there with few fellow developers, like Dmitry Baranovskiy, who you can see speaking at Web Directions South soon and Carlos Mari, Director of Carlos Labs.

So I installed Firefox 3 today. I must say that I am quite impressed with the browser itself and with the ease of upgrading. I expected few hiccups on the way but it was all smooth.

Out of my 31 add-ons installed on Firefox 2 only six do not work. The six that no longer work are:

• AutoCopy
• ColorZilla
• EROnline (Exit Reality)
• Firebug
• Google Browser Sync
• Link Alert

I am going to miss AutoCopy and ColorZilla dearly. I am sure that Exit Reality will release a new plug-in real soon.

And for Google Browser Sync - it's a real shame that this is discontinued. But I knew this in advance, therefore I backed up my bookmarks and returned back to my favorite Foxmarks

In case you wondered what add-ons I use and currently have installed, here is a list:

• Download Statusbar
• Dummy Lipsum
• Dictionary English (AU)
• Dictionary English (US)
• FlashGot
• Forecastfox
• Google Earth
• Google Gears
• Google Notebook
• Greasemonkey
• Html Validator
• IE Tab
• Live HTTP Headers
• MeasureIt
• meebo
• Mouse Gestures
• Operator
• PDF Download
• Personas for Firefox
• Quick Locale Switcher
• Redirect Remover
• Total Validator
• User Agent Switcher
• Web Developer
• YSlow

Happy browsing, everyone!

PS: I also installed Skype 4.0 and it is very sleek!

How we built Flickr workshop and Web Directions North conference

I just came home after a two-day Web Directions South 2006 conference. This conference was a huge success. I will blog about it more later. What is next? Well, there is going to be a Web Directions North conference in Vancouver in 6-10 February next year. And if you look at the schedule, there is some skiing and boarding planned as well... just get your boss to pay for it :-)

This is a link to the upcoming one-day workshop presented by Cal Henderson on Building Enterprise Web Apps on a Budget - How We Built Flickr organized by webworkshops.

It is scheduled as following:
Brisbane 13 November 2006
Sydney 14 November 2006
Canberra 16 November 2006
Melbourne 17 November 2006

Hope to see you there!