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8 Dec: My first Mac had a black and white screen, 1MB of memory and had to be started from a floppy disk. But it had a wonderful library of fonts, from the serious to the wacky and creating posters or flyers was a dream – driven in no small measure by Steve Jobs’ personal…

7 Dec: Back in the day, websites needed to work on 800×600 screens and use only one of the 216 officially-sanctioned ‘web safe’ colours only. Bless. Now, we can use colour properly, creating sites which are appealing, on-brand and accessible. Here are some of my favourite tools: Digital Color Meter is, apparently, bundled with Mac…

6 Dec: So you want to get in touch with someone who’s ripped off your work, cybersquatting on your brand or is just plain Wrong On The Internet. But the fiends don’t have a nice friendly contact form or email address. What to do? The dubiously-named Dollar Shower has a nice list of 8 things…

5 Dec: Now, this is a bit niche, but actually rather handy. Say you want to group together a bunch of people on Twitter and view their tweets as a group – you set up a List, right? But what if you want to load that list into a dashboard or feedreader, or generate a…

4 Dec: Need to discuss website layout tweaks or pet hates with someone you don’t sit next to? Here’s a nice, no-nonsense little app: MarkUp MarkUp gives you a little bookmarklet to drag your browser bar which, when clicked, opens up a little toolbar on whatever site you happen to be on. You can draw…

3 Dec: So you really like the idea of engaging with existing online forums and hyperlocal sites, and want to work with the ones relevant to your location or topic. But how to find them? Hyperlocal A great source of hyperlocal sites is @countculture’s OpenlyLocal directory, which lists them by name along with RSS and…

2 Dec: Want to bring your blog post, leaflet or web page to life with a nice image? Well, you can search Flickr Creative Commons-licensed images, but under most CC licences you need to be careful to attribute the photographer correctly. It’s not a big deal, but if you’re in a real hurry, try Morguefile.…

It’s holiday season, as our charming American friends would say, perhaps in a leaked diplomatic cable. To celebrate this Wintervalian festival of giving, I’m sharing one helpful web tool or technique every day from now to Christmas. I won’t be cluttering up the blog with all these tips, so if you want them by RSS,…