Leak Monitor - Hunt down memory-leaking Firefox extensions

Firefox has its own memory issues, but once you've got a few dozen extensions installed (like yours truly), things can get really hairy. Leak Monitor is a Firefox extension that's intended to help developers keep an eye on their extensions, but even for non-developers it can come in handy to figure out which of your extensions is eating up more memory than it ough to. It doesn't really offer a fix, unfortunately-unless you're an extension hacker your only option to plug such a leak is to just get rid fo the extension-but every little bit helps.

via [download squad / Lifehacker]

Zoomify: Zoomable hi-res image viewer for the web

Ever had a really, really high-resolution image you wanted to display on the web but didn't want to resize it or make the viewer load the whole however many megabytes all at once? Check out Zoomifyer. It's most easily described by saying it does for any image what Google Maps does for the map of the world. It's a free Windows or Mac app that will take a big image, split it up in the little chunks, and make a Flash widget that you can embed on any web site which will let the viewer zoom in and out on and pan around at will. Okay, so maybe that's not the best description. You can most easily get an idea fo what Zoomifyer does by going to the Zoomify web site and checking out the demos. It's pretty cool and, like I said, the basic version is free.

via [download squad / kottke.org]