When I’m making sure that text is legible I usually just eyeball it, but apparently there are set standards from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) concerning how much contrast you need between your text and background colors.  I came across this nifty little tool that will allow you to check if your colors are compliant.  You can move around the sliders or copy/paste your hex colors and it’ll tell you if you have enough contrast.  It’s not much to look at, but it gets the job done.

http://snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html

I found this odd behavior in Safari by accident by uploading a CMYK image without changing it to RGB.  It looks fine in Firefox – but in Safari the colors are inverted!

Images shouldn’t be uploaded to the internet as CMYK anyway, but I thought it as odd how safari handled the image mode like that.

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You can get some free exposure for your Twitter account by submitting it to Twitter Directories!  It certainly won’t make a big impact on your followers, but it only takes a few minutes to get set-up.

http://wefollow.com
http://www.twellow.com
http://justtweetit.com
http://www.mytwitterdirectory.com/

This is a super simple but pretty nifty little site. All you do is enter a long word and get a list of smaller ones 🙂

Could come in handy when you need to skim down some ad copy <3

http://www.ironicsans.com/thsrs/

These are a few sites that offer music that you can use for free with video projects.  How the authors need to be attributed can vary with each site – so check out the Legal bits before using anything!  7SXEW5Y6C6XG

http://free-loops.com/
http://www.flashkit.com/loops/
http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/
http://www.freesound.org/
http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/