I’m going to start off with my favorite. This is a Firefox Add-On (mental note.. create a Firefox Add-On post), that I use almost daily. It’s called ColorZilla.

I was reading a post about something somewhere (so specific).. and somebody gave this tool a mention. I checked it out and fell in love. If you design websites.. do you do the following?>> Say there is a color on a website that you want/ need to know the name of. You may be in Photoshop and you need to know the exact color of the red in a companies logo. You go to the website, copy the picture (or make a screenshot if you can’t copy it), open it in Photoshop, use the eyedropper, and you have the color.. then simply delete the image. Not bad.. I used to do that every day. until ColorZilla that is..

ColorZilla is a tool that installs on the bottom left of your Firefox browser that simply has an eyedropper. Click on that, roll over the website, and it tells you the color you are over.. it updates as fast as you can scroll. Now that Firefox enlarges the entire webpage instead of just text when you give the old command+ (at least pretend you knew that), you can zoom right in on a tiny part of a picture to get the color you want. Click on the color, right click the eyedropper tool to get the copy option, over to Photoshop, paste in your number and you’re done!

This tool has more features than I even use, I see it shows CSS info as you roll over sections of the page, and who knows what else. I just love the time it saves showing me the colors.. no more cleaning up my desktop of all the screenshots I made just to get color info. Just one of those tools that speeds up your workflow in an area you probably never even considered slow before.

Get ColorZilla Here

After looking at a few options, (crossing off anything that cost money), I found a nice solution. KeyMaster 1.0.2 password manager for Mac OSX did exactly what I needed.

Keymaster is a simple, easy to use program for storing passwords and user names. It uses Blowfish encryption technology to encrypt all of the entries. What this means is that nobody can gather any info from the program by any shady tricks. So you know your list is safe.

The program has you set up a main password for the program, which you enter every time you open the program. Just don’t forget that password! Once you’re in, it’s easy to add new entries. My favorite feature is the search bar. You open the program, put the name of the site you’re looking for in the search box, and the entry pops up. Click on the entry, copy the user name and pass, paste them into the website in your browser. So much easier than opening a word document and searching down the list for your entry. I strongly recommend this free program for Mac users.

Download the software here.