Screen shots, also known as screen grabs or screen captures, are extremely useful for letting other people see exactly what you see on your monitor. It’s a powerful tool to diagnose browser or computer specific errors. Combined with annotations, screen shots are a great tool for tutorials and documentation. In this guide, we’ll show you our recommended screen shot techniques for both the Windows and Mac operating systems, and well as browser tools. The tools we talk about are entirely free.

We like to inform our clients of the best tools available for their business. Google Apps certainly falls into that category. You get all the benefits of Google's most popular products, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, and even Voice, branded for your business. You can get the benefits of a similarly configured Microsoft Exchange setup at a fraction of the cost. If you have less than 10 users, it's even free.

In the latest versions of Google's Chrome Browser, you can enable GPU acceleration to have your video card help render web pages, which should lead to a noticeable increase in page load speeds, particularly for websites with heavy graphics and CSS use.

DISCLAIMER: This is an experimental feature, and it may change, break, or disappear at any time. This was confirmed working with Chrome 10.0.648.204 on both Mac OS X and Windows 7

Did you know you can integrate your Drupal powered website with Twitter? With a few modules, you can have your website posts automatically posted to your Twitter account, or you can import your tweets into your website. Check out the Twitter module for Drupal to get started. If you need help getting it set up, you can contact us for professional Drupal help.

Dropbox.com has become a great tool for syncing files across your own computers and sharing files with others. One of the most handy features is sharing a folder with another dropbox user. Just drag files over your Dropbox folder on your computer and it's automatically synced to anyone you're sharing the folder with. It's perfect for sending multiple files or large files without the hassle of email or FTP programs.

If you're not quite ready to launch your website but you need something up for vistors to see, you're better off putting up a simple page with basic contact info than an incomplete site. "Under construction" and "Coming soon!" pages remind me of the frontier days of the web in the mid to late 1990's, where cheesy "under construction" graphics could mean anything from a week to several years before it's complete. It's not a whole lot, but it looks better than something that's not polished or complete.

I found this great little website that tells you just that.

http://www.thismachine.info

This is extremely handy in diagnosing browser or operating system issues while developing websites.

We discovered a handy feature Google recently offered. You can now embed a street view of your location into any web page. This is really handy if you your building is a bit hard to find. You can see an example below: