Website loading time is alway a concern for both web developers and designers. Webslug is a tool for them to quickly measure and compare different websites loading time.

We want our websites load fast, so that visitors no need to wait for a long time before can read our contents. normally, users will only wait for arround 20 seconds before the contents finish loading, unless your websites contains really interesting articles.

So, it is really important for designers to take care the loading time before publish the design. There are a lot of websites which can measure the loading time, but today i am going to introduce Webslug, which is able to compare the loading time for 2 diferent websites.

To compare the loading time, simply type the web URL to the textboxes provided and press “Compare“. The result shown that Google take2.28 seconds to load while Yahoo take 6.13 seconds. You can also measure the loading time for a single website by following the “just test one oage” link.

Webslug

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Windows will always highlight new installed programs at the start menu. This feature is good to some people, but i believe most of us would like to remove it.

To remove this feature, right click your start menu, and choose properties. Switch to the “Start Menu” tab and press “Customize“. Scroll down until you reach “Highlight newly installed programs“. Uncheck it and press “OK“.

For Windows XP, you will find same option under the Advanced tab.

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WriteToMyBlog is a web based word editor which support publish blog entries to various platform.

This cool editor let users to write post without logging to their panel, and post the same blog posts to different blogging platform. The editor seems like having more features than what Wordpress provided.

It is totally free to use the service. As usual, you need to provide your blog post’s title and content. After that you can publish the post within the website.

Here, you can provide up to 3 blog accounts, which means you can publish your post to 3 accounts at the same time. They support Wordpress.com, Wordpress self host, Blogger.com, TypePad, Movable Type, and DotClear.

WriteToMyBlog also comes with spell checker, which is a must tool for every bloggers.

WriteToMyBlog

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Do you think that it is possible to edit and modify website within your browser, just like editing a wiki website? Yes, it is possible!

Edit current website is a bookmarklet button. When you press the button, you can start edit the website, within install any other plugin or extension.

The modified website will stay until you press the refresh button. It is very useful when you want to take a print screen of certain website, but you want to modify the content. Instead of edit the content thrpugh image editing software, you can now do it within your browser.

In the example above, i had modified the radio button’s text to “Search this planet?“. Cool? So, how to add this bookmarklet to your browser? Simply drag this “Edit current website” and drop it to your browser’s toolbar.

Enjoy!

Bookmarklet: Edit current website

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If you have more that one website, wondering how to put each other feeds on them? Feed Source is a service which easily integrate others’ feed on your blog.

There are a lot of methods to put other feeds to your website. For example, you can use Google’s API to do so. But, most of the methods require some basic PHP/Javascript coding, which is not suitable for non-programmers.

But, non-programmers can use Feed Source, which is a free service to integrate feeds on your blog.

Simply provide your feed URL and then customize the color and text. Press the Update Example button to view the example output. After you done, copy the code and then paste it to your blog.

Feed Source

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