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Tranquility – Some websites are filled with so much extra stuff that they can become unreadable. There are adverts, crazy background images, ugly fonts and all kinds of other stuff that make websites hard to read. In some cases, they can be downright ugly. Tranquility is an add on for Mozilla Firefox that is designed to clean up these ugly websites. Read more: Tranquility: Cleans Up Webpages & Makes Them More Readable [Firefox] |
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Coding App – which is a working title, is a web app designed to make programming a little easier for web developers. It is designed to help developers become more productive and creative. It is a no fluff programming application that is designed with web programmers in mind. It is great for people who need some help staying focused. Read more: Coding App: Online Coding Tool Without All The Complicated Extras | |
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Logaster – If you are looking for a website that allows you to create a stylish, yet professional looking logo in no time, check Logaster. It is an online website that allows users to create logo in a matter of seconds for free and the logo itself is full of quality and elegance – making sure your business looks as good as anything. Read more: Logaster: Create Simple Yet Professional Looking Logos Online | |
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BurnNote – is an interesting way to communicate with friends online, especially if you love your privacy as much as we do. It is a website that allows users to write notes, generate a private link, which you can send to your recipient. The recipient can then use the link to read the note, which you can even protect with a password. Read more: BurnNote: Send Self-Destructing Notes | |
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Orkanizer – is an online web-based Pomodoro manager that allows users to keep a lookout on their daily scheduled tasks and manage them alongside as they complete the tasks. For those of you who want to know, Pomodoro is a time management technique developed in the late 1980?s and intends to increase working efficiency. Read more: Orkanizer: Web Based Pomodoro Manager To Improve Your Efficiency | |
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When it comes to writing and manipulating text on a computer, I think we can never have enough tools to simplify all the tasks involved with writing, formatting, and publishing articles, documents, blog posts, and the like.
Three relatively new applications you might consider adding to your arsenal are Mou and MarkdownMail, for working in Markdown language; and a seriously magical Mac application, FormatMatch, for automatically reformatting copied and pasted text.
Let’s check them all out here.
Typically when you copy text from one source, say a webpage or email, and then paste it in another text document, the copied text does not match the font style and size of the document you paste the text into. On a Mac you have to use the “paste and match style” keyboard shortcut command (Command+Option+Shift-V) to get the style match.
But now FormatMatch alleviates this annoying problem. This little app, which works in the background, will reformat text copied from one source, and match the format of the document in which you paste the text. Here’s an example:

When I copy formatted text from the MUO article on the right, and then paste into the TextEdit document on the left, it matches the style of the first sentence in that document.
You don’t have to use a keyboard shortcut or click any button. It’s all automatic, as if what the app does was built into the operating system. And if you frequently need to deactivate FormatMatch, you can do so in the menu bar or by using a keyboard shortcut.
FormatMatch is a free download from the App Store, but it’s an application that I would gladly would have paid as much as $10 for.
Unless you’re a web developer or a writer who works in HTML formatting, you might not be familiar with what is called Markdown, “a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML)” (Source: Daring Fireball.)

Based on my brief experience with Markdown, I think it’s whole lot easier to learn than HTML. And rather you’re learning Markdown for the first time or have been using it for a while, you will definitely want to check out Mou, a text editor that provides you a preview of your Markdown text as you write.
Mou is an excellent tool for learning the syntax, and it’s one that you might continue using as a text editor when you need to write in Markdown.

Mou even includes a built-in document that introduces you to the Markdown syntax. So you can start a new document in Mou and instantly start writing and Markdown let’s you actually see a preview of what you write. Markdown syntax seems almost intuitive.
In fact, sometimes writing in Markdown is easier than using keyboard shortcuts to format text, such as incorporating quotes and italics, documents headers, ordered lists, and hard line breaks.
If you get the hang of writing in Markdown and want to send out stylish HTML emails on your iPhone or iPad, you might want to purchase MarkdownMail ($2.99).
MarkdownMail enables you to write email that can include bold text, italics, bulleted lists and much more.
And with the built-in text expansion feature in iOS 5, you can set up some of your most frequently used Markdown properties to help you write using the syntax.

The app includes a preview button so you can see what your email will look like before it’s sent out. And from there you can send your Markdown formatted email in either HTML—in which the recipient of the email will view the formatted text—,or in Markdown, which will send the the actual syntax you used to write the email.
Let us know what you think of these applications. For other text editors for the Mac, check out the The Top 3 Free Coding Text Editors for Mac OS X.
Miami web developers and designers usually charge based on experience, less experienced programmers may save you money but more experienced Miami developers will almost always deliver a higher quality product with less problems and maintenance issues. Before you choose a developer you should review other web projects they have worked on, and contact past clients in Miami if possible. Make sure you have defined the requirements for your web project and both of you have an understanding in writing of what is expected.
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Miami web developers will help you organize the information for your web site and develop navigation and layout. Many Miami developers also offer basic design services, but a firm will normally have developers AND graphic designartist. Web developers are programmers and work with web based code like ASP, .NET, Cold Fusion, Java, DHTML, Javascript, PHP, SQL and more. If you are looking for database work for e-commerce or membership sites, you should contact a Miami developer.