Cloud Canvas is a free online image editing and image creation tool. Cloud Canvas fits in a niche somewhere between a simple drawing tool and a full-blown image editor like Aviary. If all you need is a tool for drawing simple pictures and diagrams, Cloud Canvas has you covered. If you need to do some basic work with vectors and layers, Cloud Canvas can help you there too. If you have photos or drawings that you want to edit, you can do that with Cloud Canvas.

Cloud Canvas uses HTML5 instead of Flash so you should be able to use it on the iPad. Cloud Canvas integrates with your Google Docs account so that when you save an image edited in Cloud Canvas it is saved and accessible in your Google Docs account. You can also export your images as PNG files.

Pdfcrowd is an online tool which offers the user to convert a web page into a pdf formatted file. There are times when we need to go through info online, now with the help of pdfcrowd.com we can access the information without using the internet. Thus, we are able to create a pdf file out of a web page or an uploaded HTML document.

Pdfcrowd.com also provides services such as controlling the dimensions of the page, margins (horizontal as well as vertical), encryptions, permissions etc. The user is even allowed to upload the HTML document packed with external images and stylesheets.

Key Features

• Helps convert a web page into a pdf formatted file
• Also converts uploaded HTML document
• Edit dimensions of page, margins, encryptions etc. for pdf file
• Application Programing Interface is available for every platform that supports HTTP
• Various conventions for API bindings also available
• No third party libraries needed.

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ValidForm Builder is an impressive open source form creation library that relies on PHP and JavaScript (jQuery). The library outputs standards-based web forms (XHTML 1.0 valid) that are validated both on the client-side and the server-side.

It supports every input type (textbox, checkbox, radio, etc.) and comes with ready-to-use validation rules (integer, required, e-mail, etc.). ValidForm Builder also has a captcha class which is very easy to integrate and can display a new captcha on every click.

SeekWP is a search portal that is focused solely on the popular blogging platform. If you think that such a topic does not merit such a treatment, you obviously haven’t been doing your homework. As a platform, WordPress is phenomenal in its depth. Any person who is new to it all will obviously feel a bit confused. This site will be perfect for them, as they can look up everything from themes to general usage tips.

And a resource such as this one is not only suitable to newcomers. I can tell you from experience that even some of the more seasoned bloggers around are oblivious to many tricks and functionalities. Just like everybody, when they get what they need from what they are using they sort of stop there. Well, SeekWP will enable them to discover the platform that they use on a daily basis anew. And those who are just starting out couldn’t ask for a better companion to guide them through the long and winding road.

Grid System Generator. This tool generates grid systems in valid css / xhtml for rapid prototyping, development and production environments. The grid system generators offer the ability to customize the width, no. of columns and margin(s) to allow more flexibility for various designs.

Besides the CSS framework, a .PNG background file is created as well to help in prototyping and design. The generator is based on 960.gs & displays already created grids.

Rendera helps you learn HTML5 and CSS3. Type in your HTML code and see it rendered in realtime. Then style it with CSS. You can use any of the HTML 5 or CSS3 tags your browser supports. Want to learn HAML and SASS? It support those too. You can also learn from the many examples provided within, or create your own example and send it to a friend.

You can try out some Javascript too. we’ve even loaded jQuery, jQuery Tools and jQuery UI so you can experiment with those libraries too!. You can use HAML and SASS instead of HTML and CSS if you’d like. Have fun learning, and go build something awesome.

chartbeat shows you real-time traffic to your website and allows you to set alerts for any downtime or spikes in traffic. See your analytics in real-time : Control the story, track a product launch, or exploit an opportunity as it happens. Our dashboard, iPhone app, and email & SMS alerts let you know the minute your traffic spikes, your servers crash, or your page slows to a crawl.

Understand engagement: Our unique measurement technology shows you whether people are actively engaging with your content, not just how many page views they received.

Analytics for the people : Our simple dashboards take analytics beyond the analysts. Now the people on the front lines can understand what’s happening and what they need to do.

Border-radius property offers a clean and easy way of adding rounded corners to elements on the page. The rounded corner look can be applied to any or all four corners of an element, and even works with elements with a background image. Practically speaking border-radius is supported in FF3, Safari3, and Google Chrome, by way of vendor specific equivalent properties as they race to eventually just support border-radius. IE users (as of IE8) are out of luck at the moment unfortunately.

While the details of the official border-radius property are being worked out, the vendor equivalent properties for FF3.x, Safari 3.x, and Chrome that you can use right now are:

* -moz-border-radius: value
* -webkit-border-radius: value

Safari and Chrome both use the “-webkit-” version btw. For the time being, you should define both properties to cover your bases while browsers move to support the official version. “value” in this case can be a singular value (ie: 10px) that defines the radius of the border for all 4 corners, for example:

-moz-border-radius: 10px;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;

ILovePDF – If you want to edit every aspect of a PDF, including the content and the layout, you’re going to need a professional tool like Adobe Acrobat. If all you want to do is split one PDF into two, or combine two PDF’s into one, I Love PDF can do the job for you.

How merge PDF files : Go to section Merge PDF. Click on the button to select PDF files and select two or more files on your computer. The order of choise will be the order in which they will merge. You can select 10 PDFs and the maximum weight of each one can not exceed of 8MB. Once selected all PDF files click on ‘Merge PDFs!’ Wait a few seconds and you will can download your file. Your file will remain saved in ilovepdf.com for 15 minutes, during this time the link to the PDF file that appears in the download page can be shared with everyone. Once passed the 15 minutes the file will be completely deleted from ilovepdf.com. If after downloading you don’t want your generated PDF file been saved during the 15 minutes you can press ‘Delete this file now’ and the file will be deleted immediately.

How split PDF files : Go to section ‘Split PDF’. Click on the select button PDF file and select a file from your computer. The weight of the file can’t exceed 8MB. Once selected choose if you want to extract only one page or page ranges, you can choose up to 10 different ranges. Once you are ready click on ‘Split PDF!’, wait for a few seconds, and you will can download your separated PDF files. Your file will remain saved in ilovepdf.com for 15 minutes, during this time the linking of separate PDF files that will appear in the download page can be shared with everyone. Once passed the 15 minutes the files will be completely deleted from ilovepdf.com. If after downloading you don’t want your generated PDF files been saved during the 15 minutes you can press ‘Delete this file now’ and the files will be deleted immediately.

Supported PDF files: ilovepdf.com supports PDF files with the following features:

• PDF files up to version 1.7.
• PDF files with named objects, internal links and annotations.
• PDF documents with forms.
• Password protected PDF files (requires password).

Thumba is a free online image editor. It’s fast, intuitive and has a lot of adjustments and effects that can be applied on your images. You’ll encounter adjustments such: auto correction, brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, color inversion, etc… You’ll also encounter tools like crop, resize, image analysis, a lot of brushes, etc… And a lot of effects such: artistics, distortion, sharpen, blur, etc…

Thumba is provided in English and in Portuguese, other languages will be provided soon. Note: Silverlight 3 is needed to view Thumba. You’ll be redirect to Microsoft page automatically if you don’t have it installed on your PC.

It lets you crop images, blur, flip, add effects and add stylised effects to the pictures. You might also want to check out the 3D effect which turns an existing image in to a 3D one to be viewed with the blue-red glasses.