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Toolwatch – The Relaunch

By • January 4, 2012 • Uncategorized • 1 Comment

We like free tools. A lot.

Toolwatch is a frequent’ish review of some scheweeet tools that’s made our lives easier… not to mention saving hairlines. Here’s our selection for the week:

gomockingbird.com – Allows you to make mock-ups and wireframes quick and easy. It supports all the nifty bits you’d normally use (e.g. shapes, links, and text) and even allows you to export to a PDF or PNG file. It’s great for freelancing on the move.

ajaxload.info – When using Ajax, it is customary to include a small animated gif file that gets displayed while JavaScript fetches the information from the server. At Ajaxload, they generate those animated gif files as per your order: No more complicated software – simply click, click, voila!

About Riaan Knoetze

Years ago, I discovered the meaning of life, but forgot to write it down. I'm also known to breed prizewinning garden snails, win bullfights in Seville, and spelling bees in Moscow. During the week, I spend my time translating ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees. On weekends, to escape from city life, I participate in full-contact origami.
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  1. Phat Phil→
    January 24, 2012 at 2:56 pm #

    Good suggestions! But although Mockingbird is an excellent suggestion it is not strictly “free”. Another alternative and a good one if you are a web designer on a budget is the Pencil Project by the Mozilla foundation. It’s completely free as it’s just a firefox plugin and you can do some nifty UI prototyping using various stencils.

    Worth a look… http://pencil.evolus.vn