Okay I just need to offload a list of links for really cool and/or useful things that I collected within the last half hour or so. I think I might explode if I don’t do something because today has just been too much for me. You may be able to relate to what this is like if you are have anything to do with the design world, social media. In this post, you’ll get an idea of it if you’re not.

Seriously, today was way too much of an information overload, and I really have to just get this out. I’m afraid of what might happen if I don’t, and I don’t want to find out.

Sooo……

Woosaah. I needed to take a breather.

Now, the list of links, which I was more or less bombarded by Bombay bombers. All I wanted to do was a search for at the time was a simple, online color picking tool that I could just bookmark, and have quick access to at my fingertips when I need to make a different shade or tint of a color setting I’m using, or whatever other reason. Just a simple search for something I knew had to exist but never saw was a mistake. I had no idea how many of these tools there would be, and what a wide variety of different, cool, and worth sharing at least, bunch of color picking tools. The first is exactly what I was looking for.

This is a basic colorpicker that is similar but better than the one used in Photoshop. Both RGB and HEX codes are used by it and you can store a set of up to 10 different colors if you want. Plain and simple, just the essentials. Out of all the different ones I found below, I just wanted a simple HEX / RGB color picker, and will take the added bonus of saving the colors.

You need MORE!!

Color picking tools. Save time and if you just need to grab a couple colors really quick for something, and work in real-time.

Pick Color RGB and Hex Codes

There were many more, by the way just no time to re-gather them all or I’ll be here all night. The color pickers above half of what I managed to collect in about 3-4 minutes, no intention to do that (link junky?). I honestly didn’t know what the hell was going on, or why I all of a sudden felt like I went from living in a black and white world, to feeling as though colors were bleeding from my eyes. Maybe I became possessed and since don’t have any clue what went on during that time, I must have blacked or gone into epileptic shock or something. It was just so beautiful you wouldn’t be able to imagine.

That’s when I hit my breaking point and had to stop with the colors. Which brings me to what I found previously. A entirely different thing that I was again overloaded after finding it, some how or another most likely on Twitter, I came across a CSS and JavaScript tool that claimed you could drag and drop fonts into the page for testing in real-time, and this I had to see obviously since that’s cool shit if it were real. This is how I found theCSSninja.com and from there it happened, yet again. A handful of posts on that site, in combination with some 25 other random tabs I had opening and closing at any given time, it was just a matter of minutes before I had far more information than I needed, again. I tried to stay focused on the things from thecssninja site as could since it was new to me, but I’m unable to focus when there’s so much info swirling like a tornado around me. So that is why in the list below I focus more on cssninja posts. Yes, I am crazy. I know you’ve already concluded that by this point.

Font Dragr – Drag and Drop Font Tester

This is a page that you can just select, drag and drop a typeface, or font into the page, so could test how it would look in that page in the section which you can also edit in place if you wanted. Stuff like that is cool in itself.

CSS – JavaScript – Text

There were others but I can’t remember what they were. That’s ok though, they will be found again, and by larger numbers. That I have no doubt will be true. While I’m on this topic, I might as well rant on about it some more, because it was one of those days that you just say, damn there’s just too much.

There are so many new things in web technology. Things that have extremely cool, easy to use, and feature-filled, and these things include the W3 recently released and/or updated technologies HTML5, CSS3, Canvas, SVG, along with the less recent but still new and extremely powerful jQuery1.4.2, and the somewhat even less recently updated jQueryUI 1.8, which is the cherry on top this list of all that is possible from any one of them.

I would say it is easy to understand why someone who works with these things daily, as I do, becoming extremely overwhelmed by the rapidly increasing number of resources for any or a combination of these technologies. Which is noticeably advancing into the future at the speed of light. Every next thing I see, is yet even more amazing, and never could conceive as a possibility just a mere 3 months ago.

This is by no means a bad thing, and I am extremely happy to be able to be apart of the growing community of developers and designers, BUT, I mean come ON, take a chill pill. I know that asking an entire online community to chill out and take a rest is delusional, and I would never want it to stop, I love it to much! It would be nice to have that kind of power though, huh?

Anyways, I guess what I should do, but have a very hard time doing, is to take a step back with Jeff Star, since it would seem to be a good, no, Necessary* thing to do. Duh, obviously. I know but actually doing it and knowing it is good to do, are entirely different things. Just ask me, I am the king of knowing all the things I should or shouldn’t do or be doing. Do I do them though? I can do what you do? Voodoo, coming through your area, – Fugees. Despite having ability to do what you do, or doing what I should/shouldn’t do, I 90% of the time, do NOT DO them. I just do things the hard way, the way NOT TO DO them. Don’t do what I do, in case you were planning to, I know you were.

One last thing, all of that stuff above, also makes it very difficult to get anything at all done, and I have: a plugin update to release, a theme to finalize, as well as 2 half completed posts over at New2WP.com, one which is a continuance of the W3C HTML5/CSS3 meetup post which is the post-meetup review and overview of what was covered at it. Coming soon!

Anyways, ok I feel much better now that I got some of this stress of the web today out. Thanks for listening, if anyone does actually read this.

Okay go play with those links I posted, no more blabla mouth from me. Good day to you all.