In the recent past I was involved in couple of UI development and cross browser integration and its during this time I came across “expression web super preview” , which comes from Microsoft for FREE

This application can be called an AIO (all in one) IE test suit in terms of UI consistency checks. It allows you to compare different version of the same site in 2 different version of the internet explorer side by side. It also has the option to view the site in various screen resolutions.

I felt it was too nice a product to be shared online and hope it remains free till something else comes up only downside is I can use it only on windows systems only.

To download the application click here.

thanks,

thephpx

Most of today’s site uses PNG images due to use of transparencies. While they give a fine solution to the transparency problem with finer edge but it also brings about page load time issues.

To solve this problem i recently came across a PNG file compression utility.  This tiny utility is hosted on Source Forge and can be downloaded from here. This utility claims to have compressed PNG files upto 50%.

Though the utility is somewhat crude and runs in command prompt but there is a nifty post about how to call it from the windows shell.

For the shell add-on you may visit the following post.

take care,

- thephpx