2008年的2月14日西洋情人又快到啦！想送禮物的應該已經在準備了吧，這邊順便介紹一個還OK情人節小禮物，這禮物不知道女生收到了敢不敢再辦公司用捏！可能會有點彆扭，因為除了外型很愛心外，在滾動滾輪的時候還會發出「I LOVE YOU」的聲音。

仿間上應該有愛心型的滑鼠，不過這個似乎比較受我眼睛關注，日本Greenhouse不斷在3C周邊商品標新立異，這次推出了愛心型滑鼠，除了外型還算討喜外，滾輪還會彩色的發亮，當然，我是不可能用的啦，但是拿來送給公主型女生應該還不錯，小小禮物討貼心捏^^

有時候在設計網頁的時候，背景色與文字的顏色搭配很重要，太相近，文字反而看不太清楚，所以這些工具就很方便。 

The list:

• Colour Contrast Check: The first really intuitive online tool for checking colours that I know of, Jonathan Snook’s Colour Contrast Check lets you input foreground and background colours either by entiering hexadecimal values or by adjusting sliders. The tool gives you immediate feedback by showing what the chosen colour combination looks like and whether it passes the test.
• Colour Contrast Analyser: Gez Lemon’s Colour Contrast Analyser uses the same algorithm as the Colour Contrast Check tool, so the results should be identical. The difference is that this tool has no live feedback and no sliders, meaning that you will need to enter the values for foreground and background colours into a form and submit it, after which the results are displayed.
• Colour Contrast Visualiser: Using a slightly different approach, Tom Hooper’s Colour Contrast Visualiser helps you find acceptable colour combinations by visualising the colours that provide sufficient contrast on a colour palette. Colour Contrast Visualiser is available in Flash and Adobe AIR versions, so you will need support for either of those to use it.
• Colour Contrast Analyser Firefox Extension: Instead of having you enter each colour combination manually, Gez Lemon’s Firefox extension finds all text elements in a document and examines the difference between foreground and background colours for them. It displays the results in a new tab, complete with previews of the colours. This can look a bit overwhelming, but it’s a good way of finding problematic areas of a design. Obviously this tool does not work with images – you’ll need an HTML document for it to work.
• CSS Analyser: Another tool created by Gez Lemon, the CSS Analyser does a colour contrast test of your CSS. It also validates the CSS and checks that relevant text sizes are specified in a relative unit of measurement.
• Luminosity Contrast Ratio Analyser: This tool, also created by Gez Lemon, tests foreground and background colour combinations according to an algorithm developed by the Trace R&D Center.
• Vischeck: A colour blindness simulator that can be used online or as a Photoshop plugin that appears in the “Filter” menu. The online tool simulates colour blindness on an image that you upload or on a web page that you specify, while the Photoshop plugin changes the colours of the document you are working on.
• Contrast Analyser, Version 2.0: A standalone application available for Windows and Mac OS X. This is a very neat application that does pretty much everything except analyse a web page for you. You can specify the foreground and background colours numerically or by pulling sliders, you can set it to use the colour/brightness or luminosity algorithms, and it will check and preview the selected colours against various types of colour blindness.
• Graybit: An online tool developed by Jona Fenocchi and Mike Cherim. This tool does what you can guess from its name – it lets you submit a URL to a web page which will be converted to grayscale and displayed in your web browser.
• Sim Daltonism: Available for Mac OS X only, this standalone application does not calculate colour contrast, but is still very useful. It simulates various kinds of colour blindness in realtime, which makes it easy to check if a design is likely to cause problems.

資料來源 : 10 colour contrast checking tools to improve the accessibility of your design

Make Life Easier? Or Make You Lazier?

是讓自己生活輕鬆?還是讓自己更懶捏?

Solutions 裡面賣了很多生活上需要的小工具，不管是廚房的小工具或是給寵物用的小工具，網站裡面賣的可以說是滿生活實用性的小工具。不過有些可能就不是這麼常用，但當要用的時候，倒是省了很多的時間處理。

這刨玉米的工具不錯，這樣玉米粒就可以自己刮啦! 但，直接買玉米粒罐頭比較快吧!?

這切鳳梨的也不錯喔! 現在外面買的好像都是人家切好的
不過用這工具就可以自己切了，剩下的外皮還可以裝飲料，帶點鳳梨的香味!讚!!

這切香蕉的也是方便，除非是要常常作香蕉莎拉或是啥的，不然一般人都是整根啃吧!還切一塊一塊的幹嘛!?裝氣質!?

這切西瓜的工具就有吸引到我了，切一塊一塊很精準來著，中間還有多一條西瓜棒，讚喲!! BUT，大西瓜怎麼切?還有現在不是有方型的?也不能切，且~我對西瓜沒這麼大興趣吃。白搭!!