For every web designer & developer, refreshing the browsers to see the updates we make is a very common action.

XRefresh is a solution, specifically built for easing this process, which automatically refreshes browsers once an update to a file in our project folder is done.

It comes with 2 parts: a browser plugin (both for Firefox & IE) and an application (for Windows & Mac) which watches the changes made in the folders we mentioned.

Although it is handy for systems with one monitor, the best environment will probably be two monitors where the IDE & the browsers runs on each.

P.S. For Firefox, it requires Firebug to be installed.

Mozilla Prism (previously known as WebRunner) is an application that enables users to run web applications directly on their desktop. And, for developers, offers ways to make them act like desktop applications.

It is a very easy-to-use tool that simply asks you which URL to wrap, whether to sit on the system-tray and creates a shortcut for the new application. Once clicked, the URL mentioned runs in a desktop application.

With the help of a scripting support, developers can add events to their web applications to trigger actions like displaying system-tray notifications or popups.

It allows you to style (overwrite the default styles) the web application via CSS.

Prism also offers more customization options like enabling you to choose the icon for the application to be created, whether the navigation bar or navigation keys will be displayed & more.

It comes in two flavors:

• as a Firefox extension
• as a desktop application

Prism can run both on Windows & Mac OS X.

HTML-Ipsum is a website presenting "Lorem Ipsum" text in HTML format.

It can also provide Mac-friendly outputs with:

• Coda clips
• Textmate bundles
• Menu bar app.

Several types of content is provided like:

• Long-medium paragraph, one sentence
• Unordered list – short/long items
• Ordered list – short/long items
• And a combination (with extras).

One feature that would be great is the possibility to switching to the "design-view" (although presenting the HTML is the main aim).