Archive for the 'Cool Tools' Category

Page Saver Pro and Website Thumbnails

March 28th, 2007 by Mark Smith

Pearl Crescent Page Saver is used in many different ways. We enjoy reading blog postings like this one from mitten that describe an interesting use of our software:

In working on the new blog design, I’d like to display some thumbnail pictures of various websites I frequent. There’s probably a dozen or so of these [...]

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Firefox 1.5.0.5 Available

July 27th, 2006 by Kathleen Brade

Firefox 1.5.0.5 is now available. It includes important fixes for Intel-based Macs that make Page Saver work much better now than when we released it last month.

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First Release of Page Saver

December 19th, 2005 by Mark Smith

Today we released Pearl Crescent Page Saver, a free extension for Mozilla Firefox. Page Saver uses the new canvas feature that was introduced in Firefox 1.5 to render web pages as images (full size, thumbnail, or anything in between) and save them to disk. Please try it and let us know what you think.
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Web Site Improvement

November 8th, 2005 by Mark Smith

When working on our own web site and giving advice to our friends, a few resources keep bubbling to the top. What resources do you rely on to help you create or improve a web site?

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Windows Utilities

October 24th, 2005 by Mark Smith

My primary desktop computer runs Windows XP.  To make XP more tolerable, I keep a bunch of free or inexpensive utilities close at hand.  Most of these get carried on CD or memory stick to assist in troubleshooting other people’s computers too.

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