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Below are links to helpful freewares and time unlimited sharewares that aren't directly related to coding and graphics.
NoteTab
NoteTab is the best text editor I've ever come across. It even has special options to code web pages and can be used as a fair code editor. It has a variety of automated features that can be applied to your code as well as texts. Great for holding copy-and-paste text.
HandyTools
This is the coolest freeware out there. It's by Silverage and does a ton of useful things:
Image Mapper. HandyTools has a very capable and easy to use image mapper. Makes cutting up those big images into a menu of links easy.
Universal Find and Replace. An essential tool for site updating. Say you need to update a link's URL over 100 pages. Yuk! Universal Find and Replace can find and change the links in any number of pages automatically.
Color Spy. Just open Color Spy, hover your mouse over anything and it will give you the hex code for the color you're hovering over. Great for making page backgrounds match an image background.
GIF Color Mapper. Change GIF colors easily.
Gradientx. A neat text effect tool that will gradually change the color of text from one color to another over the length of the string. Gives your text a sort of "rainbow" effect.
Silverage's main page gives details of all of the above functions. You can download only the tools you want, or get the whole sheebang by downloading the "Power Tool" at the bottom of the page. All downloads are under 500 KB, and the price is right -- absolutely free!
Peach Ware Software's Scrollbar Editor
This is a neat tool that takes the hassles out of styling scrollbars for IE 5.5+. Very simple, easy to use interface.
Pop Up Stopper
Good web developing requires some good web surfing. To stop the barrage of pop up windows that attack you on some sites, use Pop Up Stopper by PanicWare. Really does the trick without screwing up your browser. Works only with Windows/IE.
JavaScript Style Picker
A viewer wishing to be known as "Site User" has sent in this neat JavaScript. It switches between stylesheets depending on the viewer's preferences. These preferences are stored in a cookie. Very good idea and flexible. A good code to study and use.
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