The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated.

Marko Dugonjić's typetester gives you instant previews of how a text of your choice would look on screen set in a certain font and size. It offers full control of the font styling, including the background colour, with the choice of displaying either fonts from your own system or standard system fonts for Windows, Mac or both.

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Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. First released as a public beta on 7 January 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther". It is the most popular browser in the world that even Mac Windows and Linux users are known. Currently, Safari web browser available on the Mac, Windows, iPhone, or iPod touch environments.

However, web development using Safari may still seems a bit troublesome compare to Mozilla Firefox. Previously, the addition of new features for Safari by developers 3rd almost impossible because your browser does not support plugins. Now it has come true.

Note: Many plugins work through something called SIMBL (Simple InputManager Bundle Loader), which is basically a little tool that helps developers manage and run their code as plugins for the different applications on OS X. It's free.

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In general, Firefox and Safari are favorite browsers of designer, however Internet Explorer and Opera are many people use for their design work, because it is integrated into the operating system or simply just because they like to use it.

In a previous article I talk about The Essential Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers, this article continues to mention for the content on the browser of Microsoft Internet Explorer.

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CSSFly is a web 2.0 tool for easy editing websites direct and in real-time in your browser. Simply edit the (X)HTML-code and the external Style-Sheet files : what you code is what you get! This tool is designed for developers. Use it for developing, testing or checking your web-project or take a look behind the scenerys of your favourite websites.

Normally, refining the layout and content frequently do work for a designer. Changed content (source, filter ...) then see the results, by modifying directly the results will help reduce the completion time as well as for a better result.
CSS Fly allows you to edit not only the CSS, but also the source code of a website - on the fly. Simply type in the URL of the webpage you’re looking to edit and CSS Fly will automatically identify & load the stylesheets into a frame which contains your editing tools.
CSSFly caches the HTML-Code and the CSS-Files of your demanded Website and opens a frameset with two frames. The one frame contains the code-data and makes it editable using a custom HTML-textarea. The other frame agitates as the display-container for the changed website. Within every change in the HTML- or CSS-Code, the display-container will be refreshed.
Try it: CSSFly

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I love to use RSS reader software, it supports my collection of favorite news sources, track and store every day, it is one of the indispensable software for me.
I know some software / service features are attractive, meet the requirements of most users, however, depending on preferences that people find it preferable to another.
Here are some softwares/services which I have used over and feel it has some hightlight features.

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Adobe Kuler is an internet application from Adobe Systems that lets individuals try out, create and save various color schemes, they now have an API for developers. Additionally, you can access the Kuler extension from any Creative Suite 4 product or use the Desktop Air Kuler application.

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