Graphics Creator is a free tool created especially for Internet Marketers and webmasters that are looking to improve sales pages conversions by creating professional graphics including buttons, headlines and guarantees. You just have to select the type of graphic you need to create, customize it and then save the created image.

For instance to create an “Add to Cart” button you have to go through the following steps:

• 1) Add the overlay effects. These include: Corner-Darken-Top, Corner-Darken-Bottom, Highlight-Clear-Top, Highlight-Dark-Top, Stripes-Light, Stripes-Dark, Middle-Shadow-Dark, Side Arrows Overlay, Button Shadows, Grain Effect, Inner Glow, Star Burst, Text-Highlight and Royal-Border.
• 2) Add some graphic addons (optional). These include credit card icons and arrows.
• 3) Set the color and text effects: background, border stroke, stage bg, font color, headline tag.
• 4) Save the graphic as JPEG.

Some time ago, I told you about whichloadsfaster, an online tool that has the purpose to calculate the loading time of two websites and determine which one is loading faster then the other one. However, this runs entirely on client-side and the results are not that accurate. Here’s another tool that can provide you more information about the speed of your website(s):

Loads.in is an useful service that shows you how fast your website loads in a real browser from over 50 locations worldwide. This is very useful if you have a worldwide audience and you would like to see how fast is your website loading for visitors that are leaving outside the country where your website is hosted. Once you enter the full URL of the page you want to check, the page is retrieved by a browser at a random location. For each subsequent check you can choose a specific location and a browser profile.

As a result, you will get the following:

• The load time of the webpage
• Snapshots of the webpage at different times during load.
• Errors or warnings if they occur.
• A complete timing break down of all elements of your page in a waterfall chart.
• The possibility to download the timing results in the Http Archive (HAR) format.

iJab is a free web based instant messaging program for XMPP/Jabber. Users can run their own instant messaging, complimenting the XMPP philosophy of a distributed network. iJab is interpreted purely by the client web browser. Hence, it does not require downloading and installing any additional software. iJab also developed iJabBar, a Facebook styled web chat client.

Features include:

• Based on XMPP protocol and it’s standard
• Support MSN, AIM transport and any transports in XMPP server
• Written with GWT and compiled to Javascript files
• Cross-browser compatible
• Easy integration with website
• Supports theme – you can add your own theme
• Support for 3 modes: stand-alone application, web chat bar in page and live support
• Sound support
• User search
• Smiles support

Iconizer.net is an online tool useful to generate and download web icons from a variety of categories including: actions, applications, communications, folders, hardware & devices, holidays, mimetypes. The images are completely free to use in both personal and commercial projects. You are encouraged and legally entitled to copy and modify any images, generated by Iconizer.net. The project is the property of preloaders.net and it was developed by Timur Gafforov and Timur Yerzin.

Features include:

• Save the icon in 5 file types (GIF, PNG, JPEG, BMP and ICO)
• Select foreground and background color
• Use transparent background
• Set the icon size (width and height)
• Constrain proportions

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Rollip is very kind to give away 15 Pro Accounts with each 30 credits (worth $5.98 per account) to Bit Repository readers.

What is Rollip?

Rollip is a new site that gives any digital photo a new look and feel by offering 40 filters ranging from 70′s vintage to more modern ones. This professional online service can turn your digital photographs into Polaroid lookalikes.

Extra effort has been put into giving users a selection of high-quality filters, resulting in some photographers to use this service for their professional work. While Rollip is free for smaller images, they do offer additional high-quality processing for users that register for a Pro Account.

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mooShell is an useful tool to test your MooTools code. You just need to load the page, edit some relevant fields and load the results into an iframe. Although it lacks some features, being in early stage of development this tool is a definitive help when writing HTML, CSS and JavaScript. A nice feature is the ability to save results for further usage, like the result from this example: http://www.mooshell.net/wzRDj/. There are plans to implement logging, choice of JavaScript libraries, snippets, tagging and many more.

EtherPad is a web-based word processor that offers a productive way to collaborate on text documents, useful for meeting notes, drafting session, education, team programming and more. Despite Google Docs, which is quite useful for word processing and document management, EtherPad has a main advantage: supports realtime collaborative text editing. This comes with a number of really cool features such as:

• Ability to copy and paste a link in order to share the document with other people
• Highlighting each author’s contributions with a unique background color
• Support for infinite undos and the insurance that every operation is forever undo-able
• The pads are trackable and sortable by authors

Etherpad updates every copy of the document every half second. This 30x increase in speed changes the experience completely. Your edits hardly ever clash with other users’. So you work confidently instead of tentatively.

Show Document is a fast and fully synchronized Net Meeting platform that lets individuals have a free online meeting and share documents (including PDF, Word, PowerPoint) with other people at the same time. It works as an alternative to various commercial desktop sharing applications. This application is very simple to operate, intuitive, requires no sign-up, no download and no installation.

The web meeting platform offers the following services:

• Share documents online
• Shared Text Editor
• Share Google Map
• Share document from URL
• Shared Web View
• Share To Mobile
• Interactive Whiteboard
• Share You Tube

One can easily upload any file and during the session mark it up with a pen or a highlighter tool in addition to a text box tool and eraser. There is also a chat box to discuss ideas and changes. Everyone’s cursor is tracked with their name as it moves around the screen. Show Document is a very effective collaboration tool.