Using Stripe Generator 2.0 one can create neat and quick striped background. As website says, its ultimate tool for Web 2.0 designers, believe me they are right!

You can create any kind of background with different colors, background style and strip orientation in few seconds.

Here is the procedure:

1. Play with sliders and color pickers, until you obtain a super-cool stripe tile.
2. Press “Download” to save your creation.
3. Edit your css adding this line to the element you want to stripe: background-image: url(”image path”);If you want to only repeat horizontally your tile (as in the case of tiles with gradient), you must add this line too: background-repeat: repeat-x; Unleash your personal style, experiment and download the tile. You can use it directly in your css file or as pattern in Photoshop!

With technological advancements in monitors/screens at offer, more people are using Wide screen monitors.

These monitor run at resolutions like 1400 x 1050 or 1680 x 1050 or 1920 x 1200. Finding wallpapers that fit such resolution is real task. Other alternative one may settle with is using a standard wallpaper and stretch it to fit the whole screen.

But this generally washes out the clarity and crispness. Here are excellent resources to download HQ wallpapers for widescreen monitors:

1. Vladstudio Wallpapers: Really high quality and amazing design wallpaper for your desktop. I personally like this site the most. Real big and unique collection at offer. (more…)

So you want to transfer files from one folder to another using Windows Explorer and you would know the limitations and pain of moving to and fro in the same window. Other alternative we choose is opening two Explorer Windows and then perform the transfer.

There is another alternative to this issue, a freeware FolderBox. It displays additional folders in the lower part of Explorer, which enables you to display the contents of two folders at once. This makes file transfer really easy and breeze. Also, you can add up to 5 tabs on this window with each tag specifying unique folder location. So, in single explorer window you can transfer files to 5 different locations without flipping the window around.

You can download this software here (scroll down link for FolderBox)

Want to have good enough storage for your music and files… well Take a Chill Pill. Here comes a Pill Shape 4GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive. It looks cool and really is very small about 2 inches long (I think !).

But why would you buy this one against a usual USB drive? You can easily hide it from others when you really want to. When you want to show flaunt it, anyway it looks too cool.Caution: do not swallow this is only meant to cure data storage blues and not your health blues..HAHAHA

Features include: 4GB storage space, self powered, portable (really), compatible will almost all OS. Also, it only costs $70, check more details on this link: Vavolo USB drive

So you want to create reflection to an image but not so good at PhotoShop stuff, well there is an alternative: Reflection.js allows you to add reflections to images on your web pages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean.

It works in all the major browsers - Internet Explorer 5.5+, Mozilla FireFox 1.5+, Opera 9+ and Safari. On older browsers, it’ll degrade and your visitors won’t notice a thing. Best of all, it’s under 5KB.

Here are few cool examples:So, why use this javascript, here are few benefits (as per site)
- Fast and easy to implement. Just add class=”reflect” to the image.
- Don’t need to spend time in an image editor creating reflections.
- Works really well with forum avatars. Doesn’t require additional server work.
- It’s dead easy to change the opacity and height of the reflections.
- The reflections can respond to user action and above all its cool.

For more advanced stuff, like opacity changing with the user actions, there is reflect-o-matic tool. So get playing around and add a reflective logo… good idea right?

Now one can create rounded corners without using images or javascript with the help of spiffycorners. It is an online tool that provide easy way to generate HTML and CSS code for the box.

You can use this code to generate basic code and then can play with it as per requirement, like we all generally do !

You need to enter only 3 fields: name of the class, background color and foreground color and then hit the button to get your CSS and HTML code (see pic)


So get set playing around with this. Also there is another cool online service called SpiffyBox. What is this all about, well check the site and you will know.