Tag: BUTTONS

Many developers know that technically, you can create CSS-only buttons with rounded corners and nice gradients. Since it's often such a hassle, though, they may not bother with it. Button Maker is a tool that takes all of the hassle out of creating buttons for the Web. Button Maker lets you play with three sliders and some color pickers, and you end up with comprehensive CSS for your ...

If you need a button the web in a pinch, Da Button Factory has you covered. It's a quick and easy "shiny" button generator with lots of custom options that are easy to control. You can change colors, fonts, shadow effects and borders with a few clicks, and there's a gallery of decent-looking example buttons to get you started. The main problem with Da Button Factory is the limited font ...

The buttonless iPhone, and the sleek styling of other apple products, has taken the Wall Street Journal to musing, "What's Steve's Beef about buttons." According to the article, Jobs' blood-lust for buttons goes back further than you might imagine. "Mr. Jobs was adamant that the keyboard for the original Macintosh not include "up," "down," "right" and "left" keys that allow users to move the ...

If there was a category we could apply to things that spread faster than wildfire, the craziness that is Twitter would likely be the first example you could use for just such a category. One only needs to check our Twitter tag to find hacks like automatically twittering your blog posts, mapping out tweets and even putting Twitter on autopilot for you. But why stop there? New TwitThis buttons and ...

Migrating to Thunderbird and want to customize it to the way you like? One thing that lots of people really like about Outlook is the option to close the original message window when you hit reply or forward. It helped keep the amount of windows open to a minimum, the same way that Firefox does with tabbed browsing. Thunderbird, however, does not have a similar option. All this can be fixed ...

Google officially announced the beta version of the Firefox Toolbar 3 Beta on Tuesday, jam packed with yummy new features. New additions in Toolbar 3 include accessing bookmarks from any computer, adding custom buttons, and sharing web pages using Blogger, Gmail and SMS. The ultimate feature that Google has integrated into the new Firefox Toolbar is the ability to view Documents and Spreadsheets ...

Google's been busy lately. First they give gTalk a much-needed update, and then they quietly announced that the Google Toolbar has been taken out of beta by introducing a new 'roll your own buttons' feature. Users can now right-click in the search field of any site and chose 'Generate Custom Search' to add it to their Toolbar. Even more advanced features can be had by checking out Google's guide ...