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Convert your files without the need of a desktop application at Zamzar.com. You can convert image, doc, music, video and miscellaneous other files into dozens of different formats. There is also a browser button available for faster access and the option to store your files.

A CSS file can get huge, often only because it hasn’t been optimized. If you want to avoid this on your website, the CSS optimizer at FlumpCakes. This isn’t just a white space remover; this tools takes in a CSS file, and parses and outputs a leaner version, removing any redundancies and attributes which are not needed. Warning: this tool also removes comments.

Source code doesn’t have to look good in order to be working but when your source code is cleaned up, it certainly makes it easier to work with. Pretty Printer is a source code beautifier. It re-formats source code, so that the code visually looks better. Test with a small snippet of code first and be sure to make a backup copy first.

This is not a comprehensive how-to guide, but rather a collection of some useful tips when you’re just starting out programming PHP based websites. The short tutorial on PHP Builder offers tips on debugging, how to deal with magic quotes and the MySQL connection class for example.

A beautiful collection of wallpapers with bird motives can be found at NationalGeographic.com. Brightly colored exotic birds, game birds, flightless birds, bird illustrations and more all for download and use as wallpaper.

About.com offers some great guides on website related topics and one of them is their section on CSS or Cascading Style Sheets written by Jennifer Kyrnin. If you’re just starting out, still using the font tag, or are confused about the box model or wonder about how to best use divs, sign up for the free Cascading Stylesheet Tip Of The Day. Getting all the info in little snippets of precise information makes it easier to learn about such a complex topic as CSS. You can unsubscribe anytime and won’t get spammed.

Experiment with different colors and images with the easy to work background designer tool at BGPatterns. Scale, rotate and change the opacity of the images, as well as the overall background texture and color. The tool works in ‘real time’ and there is no need to refresh the page with each change. You can choose from BGPattern images, or download your own.

Browse through thousands of pre-colored seamless pattern backgrounds at PatternCooler. All artwork on this site can be used freely for web and graphic design projects, blogs, Twitter, scrapbooking, MySpace profiles, mobile phone wallpapers etc. The site offers some great retro and modern designs:

Find beautifully done realistic paper and cover textures at DesiznTech. These textures are scanned from real papers, then edited in Photoshop for color balance and effect. You get old paper texture, notebook cover texture, grunge paper texture and even textures with an old gummy price sticker on it. The torn spiral bound papers, wrinkled and three hole punched ones are also very realistic and fun to work with.

For all textures click here.

Sometimes you need to look up a file type by category to find out its extension and File-Extensions.org is the perfect site for that. The site will list the most popular file types within a category to save you some time when browsing through it. Some categories contain hundreds of extensions which are listed alphabetically.