Useful Dashboard Widgets for Webdesigners

Since I use mac’s dashboard everyday, I found two great widgets for web designer.

• HTML Entity Character Lookup
• colourmod

How my files system is organized

Considering that my brand new MacBook Air will (hopefully) arrive today, I’m currently organizing all my data and I thought I let you know how my whole file system is organized (or should be ):

I own a Maxtor 320 gb external hard drive were I store all my data. On this disk I set up 7 different folders:

• Music
• My whole iTunes Music Library is stored here. It currently weights around 12gb.
• Photos
• I am organizing my photos with Google’s Picasa on my Windows machine, but soon I’ll do that with iPhoto then.
• Projects
• I created a folder for each of my clients. All the stuff that is related to the projects is stored here. I also have a file called “thoughts.txt” in all of my sub folders were I brainstorm things.
• Software
• This folder is split up into Mac and Windows Software.
• Videos & Movies
• My videos and movies currently have around 40gb.
• Webdesign
• Some webdesign code templates and cms snippets, backups of several projects, some free photos, my FileZilla FTP XML file and some other resources like icons, CMSs are located here.
• Stuff
• I put everything else in here. As it says; Stuff.

I thought it would be interesting. Just let me know if you have any suggestions for me.

Firefox 3 Beta, First Impressions

I am testing and using Firefox 3 since the first beta was released, and the current (3.0b3) actually runs very stable. In the Beta 2 it crushed every 3 minutes, but now everything seems to work fine. I really love the new detailed changes. For example that you see active downloads right in the status bar at the bottom. I also like the new bookmark feature, which I really use a lot. The only thing I don’t like are the new designed icons and buttons. No really, the idea of making the back button standing out more than the foreward button is great, but all in all, the icons don’t look even. Like five different designers had created them. I really enjoyed the “old” wine stripe theme, but the new one is just terrible and not at all Firefox like. I enjoy browsing with Firefox a lot, I love the feel and behavior, but they should improve the look and change this icon set.

Great alternative to Nero

BurnAware Free Edition from GloryLogic is a great alternative to the burning app Nero. It’s very simple and does everything you need. Visit site