SUMO Paint is a free professional software that lets you create and edit images right in your browser while offering powerful tools and layers support.

The application is totally free to use, it loads really fast and can be used from any operating system or browser that supports Flash. The application also supports external embedding, meaning you can access SUMO Paint for editing images from your own website by passing the image url as a GET parameter.

Features:

• Layers with blending modes
• Layer Effects
• Shape Tools, Brush, Ink, Clone Stamp, Eraser, Gradient, Custom Shape, Symmetry, Transform, Magic Wand, Lasso, Smudge, Line, Blur, Curve, Zoom Tool
• Color Picker
• Swatches
• Saving images with multiple layers
• Selection Modify

Website: http://www.sumopaint.com/web/

Demo: http://www.sumopaint.com/app/

Minify is a PHP5 app that can combine multiple CSS or Javascript files, compress their contents (i.e. removal of unnecessary whitespace/comments), and serve the results with HTTP encoding (gzip/deflate) and headers that allow optimal client-side caching.

Yahoo’s Combo Handler and Google’s AJAX Libraries API both serve content from their heavy-duty CDNs and potentially increase the chance that your visitor will already have a file in her browser cache. Neither service serves custom content that you provide. You may wish to use these services to serve popular libraries and Minify to serve your code.

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PicMarkr lets you to add custom watermark (image or text) to your images online and free. It is useful when you need to protect your copyrights or if you want to add comments to your photos. It is easy to use with minimum settings, no need to download or install anything. You simply need to upload files from computer or grab them from your Flickr account. It also allows batch image processing, it can saves you a lot of time when you are adding watermark to many images.

Website: http://picmarkr.com/

BGPatterns is a web tool for generating tiled patterns. Its intuitive (yet robust) user interface will allow you to tweak, edit, and resize a wide range of patterns.

You can design your own patterns and save them for future reference or you can download them as image for FREE.

Website: http://bgpatterns.com

Google today released a new tool that will make learning and testing code for Google’s Javascript APIs a lot easier. Google’s interactive AJAX API Playground gives developers an easy to use interface to write some basic Javascript code for Google’s eight Javascript APIs.

Google Javascript APIs:

• Maps
• Search
• Feeds
• Calendar
• Visualization
• Language
• Blogger
• Libraries
• Earth

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Make a baby without actually “making” a baby!

VW came up with a crazy idea: The Routan Babymaker 3000. Upload picture of mum and dad and look at the result.

Website: http://www.vw.com/vwhype/babymaker/en/us/

Striped Backgrounds – online tool, developed by Sam Herbert that generates striped background images based on 5 color pickers.

You can randomize colors to get a newly striped background or manually put hexa color code to create your desired background image. Created striped backgrounds can be downloaded in PNG format after you select the resolution.

Website: http://stripedbgs.com

The Web Development Project Estimator is a simple tool that allows web designers and site developers to quickly and thoroughly estimate the time and materials required for a proposed web project.

When finished, you can view your finalized estimate in a print-ready format in case you’d like to save a PDF or print a copy for your records.

The tool does not offer any benefit over a Google spreadsheet, but there’s a lot of freelance web designers/developers who don’t have an estimating process at all and it was created for them.

Website: http://estimator.astuteo.com

Pixastic is a JavaScript library which allows you to perform a variety of operations, filters and fancy effects on images using just a bit of JavaScript.

Features:

• Desaturation/greyscale
• Invert
• Flipping
• Brightness/contrast adjustment
• Hue/saturation
• Emboss
• Blur & more…

Pixastic Photo Editor

Pixastic is also an experimental online photo editor that incorporates some of the same techniques used in the library to create an image manipulation application. Most of the effects found in the library can be seen in action here, as well as other simple editing features.

Pixaxtic Website: http://www.pixastic.com/

Pixastic Photo Editor: http://editor.pixastic.com/

Woopra is the world’s most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application. It is mainly targeted for small to medium websites ranging from few hundreds up to tens of thousands of daily page views. Essentially, it is targeted for blogs interested in the most minuscule details of every single action.

In addition, Woopra provides a precise real-time streaming of every single activity on the website. Woopra also features a clean interface, including many graphical visualization components, such as charts, maps, panels… Along with many other clean and advanced options that make Woopra an ideal solution for webmasters who desire to discern all the aspects of their website.

Features:

• Live Tracking and Web Statistics
• Rich User Interface
• Real-time Analytics
• Manage Multiple Blogs and Websites
• Deep Analytic and Search Capabilities
• Click-to-Chat
• Visitor and Member Tagging
• Real Time Notifications
• Easy Installation and Update Notification
• Developer Tools

Website: http://www.woopra.com

Download: http://www.woopra.com/download/