Actually what this script does is replacing the “Sign Out” link located in the upper-right corner of the Google login services with a drop-down menu. From that menu you can select one of your alternate Google login accounts, and it will immediately logout and login to the other without any other user intervention.

Even if, once installed and configured, using the tool doesn’t require any particular ability, the installation process can put in little troubles the average internet user. Then, let’s show it in details.

Gmail Login Switcher Requirements

First of all, you must have all the following things in place:

Firefox. Sorry, the tool only works on Firefox. If you are still following the Explorer, listen to me… leave it alone, join the Fox crew and don’t look back: it’s free, smarter …and you won’t regret it!

The new version of Gmail. If you are still using the old version, you will have to switch to the new one. It’s easy: login to Gmail and click on the “Newer version” link on the upper-right corner of the page. Then logout and repeat this operation for each of your Gmail accounts.

Greasemonkey extension installed. This will probably sounds a little exotic for most of you. Don’t worry: Greasemonkey is a Firefox add-on that “allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript” - just to use their own words. Well, install it and forget it! Go to the Greasemonkey homepage , click on the ‘install’ button, confirm that you want to install the add-on and restart Firefox.

At this point you will see a little monkey face on the status bar (lower-right corner of your Firefox window) If the monkey looks sad and grey , click once on the icon to activate.

Installing the Gmail Account Multi-Login script

Now that everything is in place, you can install and configure the script itself. Go to the script homepage and click on the black button on the right. Once again, Firefox will warn you, but go on. Done!

Configuring the Gmail Login etc.

Now that you have the script installed, login to one of your Gmail accounts and manually add all the Gmail accounts among which you want to be able to switch. To help you to do that, I’ve uploaded a short instructional video on YouTube. Hope this help…

Once finished with adding all your accounts to this Gmail login tool, you will be able to switch from an account to another simply selecting them from the drop menu.

Enjoy!

A pack of 19 10×10 pixel greyscale icons for use in web projects.

The following icons are available

• Comment icon
• Empty document icon
• Document icon
• Globe / network icon
• Mail icon
• User / person icon
• Clock / time icon
• Calendar icon
• Alternate calender icon
• Phone / mobile icon
• Trash icon
• Mini arrows
• Really mini arrows!

1. Email Newsletters

Email newsletters let you maintain a relationship with your customers that lasts beyond their visits to your site. The newsletter is the perfect website companion because it answers a different user need: newsletters keep customers informed and in touch with the company; websites give customers detailed information and let them perform business transactions.

Newsletters are fairly cheap. They require little technology and mustn’t be published too frequently. If you don’t have a newsletter, then publishing one is probably the single-highest ROI action you can take to improve your Internet presence. If you do have a newsletter, then improving it according to research findings will likely make it several times more valuable to your organization. (Most of the newsletters we’ve tested failed to meet users’ expressed desire for good communication.)

Newsletters have one more benefit: they are the primary way to liberate your site from dependence on search engines. In the long run, achieving this liberation is one of the most important strategic challenges facing Internet managers.

2. Informative Product Pages

The product pages on e-commerce sites, marketing sites, and B2B sites all suffer from information deficit. It’s rare to see product descriptions that tell prospects everything they need to know to make a purchasing decision.

In my recent book, I present data showing that poor product information accounted for 8% of the usability problems on the websites we tested. Even worse, poor product information accounted for 10% of the user failures (that is, cases where users gave up, as opposed to “just” being delayed or annoyed). Designing product pages according to user needs is a highly targeted way to encourage sales at a point where users have already indicated interest by virtue of visiting the page.

You need detailed product information, but it must be written in a way that makes sense to people who aren’t experts in your field. For example, on the product page for a laptop, don’t be like Dell and tell people that the screen is “WSXGA+.” Tell them it’s 1680 x 1050 pixels. (Be honest: did you know this? And you’re probably five times as geeky as a normal person.) Or, better yet, be like Apple and show different screen resolutions next to each other so users can see how much data is visible with each.

3. High-Quality Photography

One of the simplest ways to improve product pages is to show better photographs. For the hero shot at the top of the page, show the most representative photo in a small size. Below that, offer several additional photos that show different angles and close-up details. Also, remember mistake #10 of the top-10 Web-design mistakes of 2005: linking from small pictures to pictures that are only slightly bigger. Instead, link to photos that are as close to full-screen enlargements as possible.

Using huge enlargements might seem to contradict the guideline about fast response times for downloading Web pages. But there’s a big difference between bloating a navigational page with irrelevant graphics and showing a big photo after the user asked for it. In the first case, the slow download interrupts the user’s flow. In the second case, the delay is expected, and while delays are never welcome, they are less of a problem when they’re clearly necessary to fulfill a user request.

A great downside of the online medium is that people can’t touch and feel your products. But close-ups and quality photographs can still give users a good approximation of a product’s tactile qualities, and they are essential to making people feel good about buying online.

For software products or online services, show full-resolution screenshots instead of photos.

4. Product Differentiation and Comparisons

You must soothe user fears about buying the wrong product, or they’ll postpone their purchases and probably never buy from your site. When you have multiple products in the same category, you must explain product differences so clearly that it’s obvious to people without industry expertise why they should buy one particular product over the others.

Product differentiation is obviously easier for companies that simplify their product lines in the first place. Why offer many different products with virtually no true differences? For example, Dell has four different models of laptops: Inspiron, Latitude, Precision, and XPS, several of which are available in six different trim lines. If there’s a clear difference between the models, it’s not explained well on the website.

Even if you have a small and clearly defined product line, you must make the differences blatantly obvious on your site.

Comparison tools can also help users choose and thus overcome decision paralysis and facilitate sales. But such tools work well only when they illustrate key differences in a concise and unambiguous manner. Too often, websites take the easy way out and simply throw up a huge table of specifications without highlighting the points where products differ.

5. Support for Reordering

I’ve already mentioned the best way to get repeat business: offer an email newsletter, which will keep customers thinking about you even when they’re not ready to buy. Then, when they want to spend money, they’ll remember you.

To make people spend more money, make it easy to reorder. People often need the same things again and again. Why require them to navigate five levels down your site each time? In B2B, customers often need to order supplies, spare parts, or accessories for equipment they’ve already bought, so you should also facilitate those types of supplementary orders.

In one of our studies last month, test participants especially appreciated it when FreshDirect, an online grocer, let them reorder from their previous shopping lists.

Reordering is a matter of total user experience, beyond the website’s user interface. Compose your product line with a view toward reordering. Continue to carry classic products so that people can order new copies of things they like. If you need to launch new products, keep sizes and similar parameters the same. For example, a customer who bought a sweater last year should be able to buy this year’s model in the same size and be guaranteed that it’ll fit equally well. Keeping sizes identical is much more important for etailing than for the physical retail channel, where customers can try things on before buying.

6. Simplified Text

You can usually double website or intranet usability simply by rewriting the text to follow the guidelines for online content. Better writing is probably the single most important improvement you can make to your site, but it appears fairly far down the top-10 list because it’s not a one-time fix. You must hire good writers for all your projects, train them in writing for the Web, and have all of their content edited by even better editors who are even more knowledgeable about content usability.

Expensive though they may be, editors are always worth the cost.

7. Catering to Seniors

Older people are the fastest-growing segment of Internet users. In fact, they are virtually the only remaining growth market in rich countries, where most of the younger people who want to get online already have accounts.

Many senior citizens are rich and have time on their hands. When it becomes difficult for them to get around, the Internet becomes a natural place for them to spend some of their vast piles of money. Seniors are also less into piracy and tend to be more loyal than fad-chasing young people.

Best of all, you can take advantage of the fact that most websites discriminate horribly against older users. Even government websites that supposedly target retirees are designed according to guidelines for thirty-somethings. Because so many sites are hard for them to use, seniors will shower you with business if you’re the honorable exception who acknowledges their special needs. (And, those needs aren’t even that special — it’s much easier to make sites usable for seniors than for users with disabilities, plus there are many more seniors and they tend to be richer.)

8. Gift-Giving Support

Wishlists and gift certificates are low-cost features that give you incremental sales and introduce your site to new customers.

9. Search

Maybe search shouldn’t be on this list; even though the benefits from improving it are immense, the required investment is fairly high — certainly higher than for the other redesign initiatives listed here. Thus, the cost/benefit ratio is not as stunningly favorable for search as it is for my other recommendations. It’s still favorable, though, so you should work on it.

Users increasingly depend on search as a primary interface to the Web. While search is getting fairly good for the Internet at large, it remains miserable on most websites and intranets.

Fixing your site’s search requires that you buy and install better search software, and then tune it for your content and user queries (by adapting the spell-checking suggestions, for example). Worse, you must fix your content so that it’s searchable. For example, you have to write meaningful page titles that actually explain the page’s content so that people will know what they’ll get when they click on a search hit. You also have to write using your users’ vocabulary.

While it’s expensive to rewrite your content for findability, doing so also improves your standing in external search engines, and SEO (search engine optimization) is one of the highest-ROI Internet marketing tactics. This is a much better investment than running ads that most users won’t see due to banner blindness.

10. User Testing

User testing should really be #1 on this list because of its ability to set your project right with almost no investment. But I know that most readers tune out when I harp too much on the need for testing: people prefer to be told what to do rather than run their own studies.

However unpopular, I still recommend that you do your own user testing. There are always issues that are unique to your own industry that can’t be resolved by reading general research insights. And remember: usability studies can be cheap, especially when you use low-cost paper prototypes that let you test an interface while it’s still in the early design phase.

Bonus Tactic: Loyalty Program

For 10 years, I’ve recommended loyal-user programs, such as frequent-browser points modeled after airlines’ frequent-flyer miles. Virtually no websites have taken me up on this idea, so I can’t claim that it’s a proven high-ROI tactic like those on the official top-10 list. But, take loyalty programs as a bonus idea: it’s likely to be one of the main ways the Internet can fight back against search engine overlords and return more of the value to the websites that create it.

We’ve recently been observing people shopping online and are seeing some user loyalty emerge: more users are now starting out at a preferred site rather than a search engine. Perhaps we’re finally seeing some websites that are good enough to be worthy of a bit of loyalty.

To encourage more loyalty, reward your repeat users. Discount offers and free shipping are the obvious ideas, but a website is a computer and we can go beyond these old-world approaches. For example, there are products in limited supply that sell out every holiday shopping season; give your loyal users first dibs on your allocation — or let them register for future allocations before you make them available to the general public.

Serving Customers, Not Chasing Hype

The high-ROI ideas I have highlighted here have one thing in common: they add value to your site by enhancing its value for customers. That is, they give users what they want and need. These ideas are not the latest over-hyped stories the trade press loves to cover. Users want you to get back to basics and invest in the simple things that really matter to them.

Interface design is about making money for the company. Execution and workmanship are what you need, not fashion and advanced features. Do the basics, and do them well.

Source: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/high-roi.html

2. Brand Spanking New (www.brandspankingnew.net/archive/2006/12/hohoho.htm)

3. Greyscale (www.e-lusion.com/design/greyscale/)

4. Drunky Love (http://www.el73.be/drunkey-love/downloads)

5. Strawbee (www.strawbee.com)

6. N Design (www.ndesign-studio.com)

7. Sweetie (www.sweetie.sublink.ca/)

8.Fast Icons (www.fasticon.com/freeware/

9. ASP NET Icons (www.aspneticons.com/)

10. Two Tone Icons (www.2pt3.com/news/twotone-icons-for-free/)

11. Website Icons www.websiteicons.com/tab/FREE_Pixel_icons

12. Pinvoke (www.pinvoke.com/)

13. BS-Markup (www.bs-markup.de/iconsets)

14. Glyph Lab (www.glyphlab.com/)

15. Website Icons (www.websiteicons.net)

and the rest…

16 Spheres Icons (http://mouserunner.com/Spheres_ColoCons1_Free_Icons.html)

17. Exploding Boy (http://www.exploding-boy.com/2005/09/13/explodingboy-pixel-icons/

18. Bitcons (http://somerandomdude.net/srd-projects/bitcons/)

19. Beauticons (http://www.beauticons.com.ar/icons.html)

20. Icon Kits (http://iconkits.com/signup/)

21. Yellow Icons (http://yellowicon.com/downloads/)

22. Studio Twenty Eight (http://www.studiotwentyeight.com/icons.htm)

23. Vista Icons (Vista Icons)

24. Icon Base (http://www.iconbase.com/)

25. Yegor Gilyov (http://yegor.gilyov.com/free/

Web 2.0 Inspiration

1. Web2Logo.com - hundreds (thousands?) of current web 2.0 company logos
2. LogoTwo.com - another web 2.0 logo showcase - and you can rate them if you’re that bored

Web 2.0 Graphic Generators

3. Post-it Note Generator - create “Post-It Note” style images



4. LogoCreatr - lots of templates and choices to create your own Web 2.0 Logo - just don’t forget to drop the vowels



5. BlogButton - by the same folks who created LogoCreator comes BlogButton



Web 2.0 DIY

6. How Web 2.0 Logos are drawn (Photoshop) - tutorial
7. Creating Web 2.0 Graphics in The Gimp
8. Web 2.0 Design and Style Guide



Pre-created Web 2.0 Images

9. utombox - web 2.0 icons in png and jpg



10. feedicons - feed (rss) icons in all colors and formats



11. photoshopit - free Web 2.0 PSD’s



12. bittbox - fading corner images



13. euphorish - date icons in png and psd



14. dezinerfolio - 9 web badges



15. axialis - 601 Objects (plus 500 derived symbols) - 256×256 PNG images with alpha channel & tutorials to use them



Web 2.0 Color Schemes and Fonts

16. Colr.org - fetch colors from a website, image, or pre-created schemes. Then edit till your hearts content.



17. Great Fonts for Web 2.0
18. Web 2.0 Colour Palettes
    

    Web 2.0 Programming

19. GD is an open source code library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers. GD creates PNG, JPEG and GIF images, among other formats. GD is commonly used to generate charts, graphics, thumbnails, and most anything else, on the fly. While not restricted to use on the web, the most common applications of GD involve web site development.



20. DHTML/AJAX Tutorials

WordPress Web 2.0 Themes

21. Socute and Sodelicious - two web 2.0 WP themes
22. RockinBlue - 2 column web 2.0 WP theme
23. Rockin Web 2.0 - 3 column web 2.0 WP theme



24. BlueBorders 1.0 - 2 Column, widget ready, and features a dynamic menu which highlights depending on the page you’re on



Goofy/Useless

25. Certifyr - create a web 2.0 certified/compliant button

AJAX

26. Ajax file upload script



27. Ajax file browser script



28. Free AJAX scripts directory (and most appear to actually be free)
29. How to get Google and AJAX to Play Nice
30. 80 AJAX/JavaScript Solutions for Professional Coding

Over 30 fonts from the Graffiti Font 3.0 CD.

Download from Rapidshare
or
Download from Depositfiles

“31 Exclusive fonts in all with 17 all new exclusive graffit i fonts and new styles from tags to burners.” - lie from graffitifonts.net.

All this fonts (without any change) from v2.0
http://www.gfxworld.org/fonts/graffitifonts20.html

1. Zeke 1.0

Website: solostream.com
Author: Solo Stream.

2. Bus Full of Hippies

Website: http://archgfx.net
Author: John Oxton.

3. Illacrimo

Website: http://www.lifespy.com
Author: Lifespy.

4. Plainbox v1.0

Website: http://jsbox.net/332
Author: Jay Kwong.

5. Artuell

Website: blog.artueel.be
Author: Erlend Debast.

6. Vengeance

Website: wpdesigner.com
Author: Small Potato.

7. Merdeka

Website: ikram-zidane.com
Author: Ikram Zidane.

8. Far From Fearless

Website: farfromfearless.com/
Author: Chris Murphy

9. Salmon

Website: justinshattuck.com
Author: Justin Shattuck

10. Minyx

Website: infectedfx.net
Author: Infected Fx

11. Bogart

Website: http://jimmitchell.org
Author: Jim Mitchell

12. Grid Focus

Website: 5thirtyone.com
Author: Derek Punsalan

13. Excentric Paradise

Website: excentricparadise.de
Author: Excentric Paradise

14. Tweak V.1

Website: tweakcast.com
Author: Fall Out Media

15. Tarski

Website: tarskitheme.com
Author: Ben Eastaugh & Chris Sternal-Johnson

16. Cleaker 2.1

Website: pomomusings.com
Author: Adam Walker Cleaveland

17. Autumn Concept

Website: edmerritt.com
Author: Ed Merrit

18. Xenoria

Website: nuwen.com
Author: http://nuwen.com

19. Simplicity Bright / Dark

Website: koch-werkstatt.de
Author: Koch Werstatt

20. Cold Blue

Website: webrevolutionary.com
Author: WebRevolutionary

21. Mezzo

Website: wpthemesplugin.com
Author: Moses Francis

22. XV

Website: blog.unnerkrunt.de
Author: http://blog.unnerkrunt.de/

23. Hemingway

Website: warpspire.com
Author: Kyle Neath

24. Foliage

Website: /5thirtyone.com
Author: Derek Punsalan

25. Greenery

Website: ilemoned.com
Author: http://www.ilemoned.com/

26. StripedPlus 1.0

Website: theundersigned.net
Author: http://theundersigned.net

27. Pro 2

Website: eisabainyo.net
Author: http://eisabainyo.net

28. Marki

Website: ikram-zidane.com
Author: Ikram Zidane

29. Blogging Pro

Website: bloggingpro.com

30. Vertigo Squared

Website: briangardner.com
Author: Brian Gardner

Imagery

Imagery is my favorite image search engine due to the intuitive interface. This has a cool tabbed search interface to browse your searched images. Just keep searching new image terms, which keep compiling in new tabs, click to load full size image at the bottom or in new window. Loads 20-100 images at a time in ajax-y fashion. Best for research and keep collecting all your search images easily. You can tweak preferences to select JPG, GIF or PNG, sort by size, sort by black and white, grayscale or color and of course get safe for work images too. Test

Google Images Search

Google Image Search is probably the most common image search engine you might have used. Gives you thousands of image results very fast. But a limitation is you need to click to the image source page to see the full size image (Power it up with Google Image Ripper to get no more thumbnails and load full size images directly). You can sort images by JPG, GIF, BMP or PNG, sort by b&W or color, with an option for extra large images. You can also search news content and faces too! (Face test). Improve Google Image Search results using the Google Image Labeler. Use more filters to stop that NSFW image with moderate filtering or strict filtering. Test.

Yahoo! Image Search

Yahoo Image Search will find photos and clicking on images will take you to the source page with a framed interface, with an option to mail to a friend. You can opt for color and b&w by quick links. Select photo size with a wallpaper mode too which gives you images on all usual desktop sizes (Test wallpapers). It gives related searches too at the bottom of results. Its also powers the AlltheWeb search engine. Test.

Ask Images

Ask Images Search will search your desired images and suggest ways to expand or narrow your search for better results. A unique preference is finding buddy icons (Test). It will suggest related information from Wikipedia, videos from Youtube, news, profiles and more. Test.

MSN Live Image Search

MSN Live Image Search searches through all images of your choice. One cool option is to search “Showing only images of your desktop size” to find that ideal wallpaper even if you do not know your display settings. Another cool feature is you can drag images from the search results to a scratchpad and create a photo collection. Find related results. You can adjust a slider to see smaller thumbnails and fit in more photos. Test

AltaVista Image Search

AltaVista Image Search has similar search results, with an option to select graphics and buttons / banners too. You can also quickly sort by a huge range of prefixed desktop sizes and very useful to find wallpapers for your desktop (Test 1024×768 wallpapers). Clicking on “more info” below those images will take you a list of all webpages that host that same image. Test

Picsearch

PicSearch claims to index 2 billion images on the web. All images are output-ed as thumbnails and click through to a framed page with the original source. Selecting the preferences you can select only animations only. You can also sort images by various image sizes based by pixels (Test <50px). And they are family friendly images by default, which cannot be changed. Test. It also powers Ditto.

Exalead Image Search Engine

Exalead will let you change the background to black or white. Then you can customize it to find few prefixed size desktop wallpapers. It can also search faces. You can again choose color or B&W and image sizes. You can click on options to view direct image links with no frames. Or click the image to browse the images and their source sites in frames. Test.

Pixsy

Pixsy will let you search and extract images from popular free image hosting services Webshots, Photobucket, Sevenload, SuperiorPics, ViewImages etc. Switch the media type to Images in the drop down options. Clicking the image will take you to the framed page, where you can browse images, and see source page. You can email or save to ‘My Pixsy’ too. Test.

Visoo

Visoo uses the power of its Visual Content Analysis to provide highly accurate information on the visual content contained within digital images, information that cannot be obtained from any other online source. With Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, it recognizes text in graphics and images and can even analyze colored type or transparent text on any background. You can also check the People option for face recognition and select no banners.

Netvue

Netvue is another cool image search tool. The images are organized as a slideshow, you can regulate the slide show speed and even turn it off. Browse thumbnail images to a central window, with links to original full size image source. Test

Flickr

Flickr Images - Its the top image sharing community on the web sharing their best photos with you. Many unique photos can be found, many personally photographed and with copyrights reserved. You can browse in detailed or thumbnail view. Another option is to sort by View: Most relevant or Most recent or Most interesting (test) as judged by the community. Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, which means you can use their content with some rights reserved. Test.

Webshots

Webshots is another huge photo sharing community where people upload their choicest photos and share them. Lookout for copyright issues in these photo album collections. They have a desktop software to have fun with your wallpapers and screensavers. Test.

Photobucket

Photobucket is a huge resource of great images. It is a free online image hosting service that gives webmasters a free alternative to host large images, saving their server bandwidth. Most images might not have a copyright notice, so beware before reusing. Test.

Getty Images

Getty Images Search - They are famous for those unique stock photos you find on magazines, newspapers and corporate new blogs worldwide. Browse through their huge collection and find unique images not indexed by other search engines. In the multiple options, select only Editorial Images (All Editorial, All time). You can also sort by Horizontal or Vertical. Register to get price quote. Test.

Corbis

Corbis is another popular huge database that provides stock Images. You can search through Rights Managed, Royalty-Free images. You can search by Photography and Illustrations too. But you need to register with Corbis - to license the best images available, view and download large images with no watermarks, use personalized lightboxes to store and share your favorite images and license and download images online. Free stock photos can also be found at Clipart.com, FreeFoto, Stock.xchng

Warning on Usage - Image search engines help you find the best photos and images online, but that does not make them yours to crop, edit and photoshop. Many of these images you find are copyrighted and for personal use. Some photos are shared with limited creative commons licenses and some rights reserved. Enjoy them but lookout for the copyright notices and if you are allowed to reuse them.

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