Category Archives: Software & Scripts

Tweetie for Mac: OSX-Native Twitter Client

I’ve been trying out Tweetie for Mac lately. It’s a Mac OSX-native Twitter client with a very nice, polished interface. It has many of the features of Nambu, but it lacks the instability that Nambu tends to have from its current “beta” status.

Tweetie supports multiple Twitter accounts, and let’s you switch between them with a cool vertical slide effect. It offers the usual basic Twitter functions (friends timeline, mentions, direct messages) as well as some streamlined search abilities, including the ability to save favorite searches that you frequently track.

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10 Cool Things We’ll Be Able To Do Once IE6 Is Dead

SitePoint is celebrating the fact that Internet Explorer 8 has been added to Windows’ automatic updater. This means that a lot more people will be upgrading. Home users are one of the biggest offenders when it comes to using outmoded browsers, and this should…

IE8 Added to Windows Automatic Update

Microsoft has added Internet Explorer 8 to Windows’ Automatic Update, and marked it as a high-priority update. Starting on or about the third week of April, users still running IE6 or IE7 on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Server 2008…

MacHeist 3 Bundle

This year’s MacHeist bundle is available for another few days, if you haven’t heard about it yet. For $29 you can get a bundle of Mac software that usually totals up to $975…and 25% of every sale goes to one of a selection of…

PHP Link Directory 3.4 Released

PHP Link Directory, one of the advertisers here at Webmaster-Source, would like to announce version 3.4 of their phpLD product. phpLD is a paid product, but it’s still one of the more popular web directory solutions. The link directory script has changed greatly since…

Browser Extensions: A Call For Standardization

I use Firefox as my main browser, and have since it was released pretty much. Over that time I have become dependent on a variety of extensions. ColorZilla, Web Developer, Firebug, StumbleUpon, etc.. I use them daily, and a browser without them would feel…incomplete…

How Much Longer Will IE Last?

Internet Explorer is notorious for it’s laughable support for W3C standards. Look around in the web design community and you’ll find that a lot of designers do not like the browser one bit, as a result of having to find workarounds so a page…

Chevereto: A Free Image Hosting Script

Chevereto is an open-source image hosting script that could easily be used to create a service like ImageShack or TinyPic (providing you have a good server) or a smaller personal operation. You can see a demo of the script here. It looks pretty nice…

What You Must Know About the New Safari 4 Beta

My first post at NETTUTS was published a few days ago. What You Must Know About the New Safari 4 Beta is an overview of the beta of Apple’s latest browser release. The updated browser is lean and lightning fast, and it passes both…

Minify: Compress Your JavaScript and CSS

If you’ve ever used a JavaSCript library such as jQuery or Prototype, you are probably familiar with minified scripts. They act like normal JS files, but they are a lot smaller, and they look like gibberish when you open them in a text editor.…