Archive for January, 2009
45 Must-See Incredible Resources And Inspirational Collection To Discover The Best Of The Web In January
We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 45 Must-See Incredible Resources And Inspirational Collection. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we will try to cover as much as possible.
You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of January which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.
You may be interested in these older posts
13 Premium-Like WordPress Themes That Are Free And Stunning
21 Really Stunning Photoshopped Photos For Creative Inspiration
17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls
27 Eye-Opening and Inspiring Websites Of Top Brands
43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
31 Incredible Resources And Inspirations For Designers Like You To Discover The Best Of The Web In November
27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration!
13 Simple And Elegant Free WordPress Themes
21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements With Animals
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements
17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
15 Digital Photo Manipulation From Flickr To Get Inspiration
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
21 Simple But Impressive Corporate Web Designs Of Top Brands
Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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60 Photoshop Actions for Photo Touch-Ups and Enhancements
How to Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation
50 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Video Tutorials
42 Amazing Photoshop and Illustrator Icon Design Tutorials
40+ Excellent 3D Effects Photoshop Tutorials
30 Popular Photoshop Tutorials of 2008
65+ Smoking Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials
40 Photoshop Tutorials for Amazing Lighting Effects
Recycle Vintage Images to Create a Photoshop Collage
Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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40 Mind-blowing Digital Space Paintings
23 Very Conceptual & Terrific Dark Art Photos
Design Inspiration: Lighting Effects
70 Wonderful 3D Typography That Truely InspiresÂ
Beautiful and Creative Examples of Vibrant Web Designs
Show Me Some Well Designed Logos
Online Portfolios That Speak For Themselves – Part 2
40 Brilliantly Photoshopped Print AdsÂ
25 Incredibly Artistic Websites
20 Amazing Images That Could Be HDR – But are definitely Not
100 Sources of Design Inspiration
Javascript and Ajax
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The 20 Most Practical and Creative Uses of jQuery
25 jQuery Tutorials for Improved Navigation Menus
10 Smart Javascript Techniques For Manipulating Content Â
4 Easy Tips to Improve JavaScript Efficiency
Building a jQuery-Powered Tag-Cloud
45+ New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience
xHTML and CSS
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20 Useful Resources for Learning about CSS3
CSS Code Snippets : 15 Wicked Tricks
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35 Free High-Quality E-Commerce Templates
45+ Free Design Template And PSD Files
30 Useful Open Source Apps for Web Designers
38 Free Elegant XHTML/CSS Website TemplatesÂ
15+ Incredibly Useful Mac Apps For Freelance Web Designers
8 Free Design Platforms To Build Your Own Site
27 Indespensible Resources for Graphic Designers
19 Promising PHP Template Engines
21 Must Have Web Apps for Designers and Developers
30 Free, Amazing and Versatile WordPress 2.7 Themes
26 Essential Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers
The Ultimate Collection Of Free Vector Packs
Miscellaneous Articles
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15+ Tips to Speed Up Your Website, and Optimize Your Code!
6 Ways To Kickstart Your Customer Service
10 Steps To Protect The Admin Area In WordPress
13 Online Free Web Apps That You Would Really Love To Use
Today, we are publishing another list of 13 online free web based applications that are very helpful for you to process your daily work (Part 3). Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. But we make sure to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.
You are welcome to share if you know more online free web applications that our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.
Cozi is a free web service that helps families manage crazy schedules, track shopping and to-do lists, organize household chores, stay in communication and share memories’ all in one place.
Iterasi, makes it simple for any Web user to save the dynamically generated pages that are increasingly becoming the bulk of today’s Web experience. With iterasi, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, and database driven technologies, like PHP and ASP, can all be saved in their current state”with the push of a button.
PurpleTrail is a new way to organize and manage parties, get-together, events and meetings. It is the first ever event organizer that lets you create, invite and evolve plans along with your friends, colleagues and family in true web 2.0 style.
140it shrinks your twitter messages down to 140 characters by reducing words, removing extra spaces and Shrinking URL’s with bit.ly
Onehub is a web application that provides everything you need to easily and securely share business information and files with partners, customers, coworkers, and suppliers.
Roxer is an easy-to-use, free online tool that lets anyone create beautiful web pages without programming. It takes a new approach to making web pages, based on the idea that you should never have to bother with code.
Social Mention is a social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and microblogging services.
Tilt-shift miniature style photos are pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs. Now you can easily transform your existing digital camera photos into tilt-shift miniatures using tiltshiftmaker.
Dataopedia is one-stop-resource for finding website facts, and the service can be accessed via the website, the mobile site, embeddable widgets for your website, and browser add-ons. Whatever suits you best and feels more comfortable to use.
Listingly helps you to manage your lists online. Share them with others, or keep them private. You can also print lists, or pull them up on your phone, anytime, anywhere.
With Checkvist you can easily work with multiple outlines or hierarchical to-do lists. Extensive use of keyboard navigation and shortcuts allows you to create an outline exactly with your typing speed.
Getgoaling is a platform that enables users to set goals and action plans necessary to achieve those goals. It enables sharing of experience among users having similar goals. Users can share goals with only few members of their choice who can support and motivate them, or with the community at large.
BlindSpeak allows users to send synthesized messages through the web. The service has a wide arrange of uses, from sending a unique “happy birthday” message to your friend – to sending a more serious, anonymous message to someone.
13 Premium-Like WordPress Themes That Are Free And Stunning
WordPress, a fastest growing blogging platfrom and getting more and more every day. This is a reason that demands related to wordpress themes and plugins are increasing as well. No doubt, you may easily found thousands of free wordpress themes on internet but how about if we will help you and get the latest list of free and stunning wordpress themes.
Today, we are posting another great post that covers 13 Premium-Like WordPress Themes That Are Free And Stunning. This is not the long list with all the available wordpress themes on the internet but its an exclusive collection of free wordpress themes that are premium-like free themes and you may consider any of these themes as per your need.
You are welcome to share if you know and want to share more stunnig wordpress themes that are looking professional and our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.
One of the beautiful theme by designed by Paul Kadysz and developed by Dariusz Siedlecki. When you see the them, I sure you will love it.
ZinePress: A WordPress Magazine Theme
ZinePress is a 2 Column widget ready WordPress theme. This theme has very nice and beautiful layout with a way that can attract users to involve with your blog.
This is a magazine style free wordpress theme that is widgetize on the sidebar. This theme is really good to have any media industry blog magazine.
Color Paper: A Free WordPress Theme
Color Paper is a free professional WordPress theme, created by the DreamTemplate team and released by SmashingMagazine. This theme aims to combine visual appeal with clean typography and vivid design elements.
This is a beautifully widgetized, 3 column, magazine style free wordpress theme. If you are planning to start new magazine blog or want to change existing theme of your blog, its a good theme to consider.
This is really beautiful wordpress theme works with latest WordPress release. It has Photoshop PSD Files Included and its widget ready.
Versatility Lite is a two column, ad-ready, widgetized theme. The theme includes a ‘Featured Post’ section, drop down CSS menus, integrated related posts, social bookmarking buttons, and much more.
Infinity: A Free WordPress Theme
The theme has 3 fixed columns, thumbnails integration, Flickr, Delicious and Twitter integration as well as an attractive visual design.
This theme works with latest WordPress release and Widget Ready. The one of the best is that it has Photoshop PSD Files Included.
Magaling is a premium quality WordPress theme with Twitter status integration. Additional features include Featured Post Gallery, Feedburner Email Subscription, Popular Posts, Ajax Tabbed Sidebar, Automatic Thumbnail Resizer, Adsense ready with advertising blocks easily customizable via an Option Page.
This is a beautiful free them with featured Posts panel on the homepage using jQuery technology to display / hide the posts. It also have built-in video panel, which you can use to publish any web-based Flash videos.
This is another beautiful wordpress theme works with latest WordPress release. It has Photoshop PSD Files Included and its widget ready.
The theme features a nice and clean look with two sidebars on the right and a tabbed section for recent posts, comments and archives.
Thank You Our Valued Sponsors To Be With Us In The Month Of January
This is a post in which we want to say a big Thank You to the SmashingApps’ fastest growing community for regularly visiting our blog. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and be the one of 240k+ subscribers. But how can we forget to say a Great Thank You to our valued sponsors who help us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of January, 2009 as well.
Do you want to get noticed? Advertise with us and feel the difference!
Smashing Apps always welcome new sponsors for our large and diversified visitor base from more than 188 countries. They are designers, developers, internet marketers, bloggers, IT entrepreneurs, etc. You will get noticed by the thousands of visitors every day. Moreover, a monthly recognition post to thank you as our valued sponsors. Are you really interested? Click here to contact us or see advertisement section for more information on advertising details.
This month, Our valued sponsors are:
Zapproved is the first hosted web app that manages the organizational decision-making and approval process. Zapproved is an easy-to-use tool working in tandem with email that documents the input from anyone in an organization that needs to participate in a decision, bringing transparency and accountability to any approval process.
Awaken turns your Mac into the ultimate alarm clock and sleep timer. You don’t have to wake to an annoying buzzer anymore. Your Mac is filled with your music and Awaken would like you to wake to a playlist of your choice.
FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.
HotCards offers services of Highest Quality, Lowest Cost Full Color Printing in the Nation. Business Cards, Postcards, Flyers and Club Cards, Posters and More.
‘Help! My Business Sucks!’ is a free, weekly web TV show that helps entrepreneurs to “get more done and have more fun.â€Â Hosted by maverick marketer Andrew Lock, the show provides plenty of practical marketing tips, big lessons from well known brands, and lots of little known resources that small business owners can use to increase their profits.
Deploy and Scale Websites, Servers and Storage in Minutes with Mosso. For Cloud Hosting technologies and expert support.
PixyJobs is an online job board where you can post or look for Web Design and Development jobs.
In Web 2.0 style jobBlogs provides a integrated CRM and Project Managment solution that uses private blogs to organize your team and get work done.
BuiltWith Website Optimizer provides Technology, SEO, Web Standards and Monetization reports for your website and business.
ThemeForest is a website from where you can buy and sell site templates and themes to skin popular CMS products like WordPress Drupal and Joomla. Files are priced from just five dollars, based on the complexity, quality and use of the file. Anyone is free to signup for an account and begin trading or purchasing files.
Premier Survey is the users’ choice for free online survey management. This system, a powerful self-service application developed on the concept of Software As A Service (SAAS) is designed to minimize cost and maximize ease of use.
Do you want us to say Thank You in this special way? So help us to help you!
You will just need to take a look at our advertisement section on how you can start advertising at SmashingApps to grow and spread more or contact us for more information and details related to
- direct marketing
- sponsored giveaways and contest for Smashing Apps readers
- releasing a free font, a WordPress-theme, some wallpapers, an icon-set or anything else
31 Most Colorful Collection Of High Quality Free Texture Packs
High quality texture, backgrounds and patterns are the most demanded freebies on the internet. Designers love all of those textures that can help their designs to become more beautiful and attractive. We know this very well and SmashingApps is all about to feature all those smashing stuffs that are free and useful for designers. Today, we are going to list down 31 Most Colorful Collection Of High Quality Free Texture Packs. We hope you all will like this collection.
You are welcome to share if you know more free and high quality texture sets that our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.
You may be interested in these older posts
21 Really Stunning Photoshopped Photos For Creative Inspiration
17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls
27 Eye-Opening and Inspiring Websites Of Top Brands
43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
31 Incredible Resources And Inspirations For Designers Like You To Discover The Best Of The Web In November
27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration!
13 Simple And Elegant Free WordPress Themes
21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements With Animals
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements
17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
15 Digital Photo Manipulation From Flickr To Get Inspiration
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
21 Simple But Impressive Corporate Web Designs Of Top Brands
This is a set of 4 beautiful texture 2300 x 3000 pixel size of 300 dpi images.
A beautiful set of vintage grunge textures with a size of 500×400 pixel size.
A beautiful collection of 10 Bokeh high resolution textures of 2000 x 1500 pixel size.
High-Resolution Grungy Paper Textures
In this texture pack, you will find 6 large-scale, high-resolution (2592 x 3872 pixels) textures that are available to you for free for any personal or commercial purpose.
A colorful and beautiful set of scrapbook style large textures.
A beautiful set vintage style textures.
Ultimate Grunge Pack: 40 High-Res Textures
These are 40 grunge textures to help you in the search for that perfect texture for your designs.
These 20 textures of 100×100 size. Some of the partly made from scratch and partly altered paper scans.
This is a set of 6 colorful textures of 800 x 600 pixel size in .png format.
A set of original scrapbook textures in 408 × 327 pixel size.
A beautiful set of 10 light textures in 800 x 600 pixel size.
A beautiful set of 3 broken glass textures.
A set 15 miscellaneous textures of various style in 400 × 248 pixel size.
A nicely designed beautiful set of 8 paper textures.
High-Res Red Rocks Texture Pack
There are 6 textures included in this texture pack. Each image is large-scale (2,896 x 1,944 pixels) and high-resolution, so it’ll give you the ultimate flexibility in usage. You can scale them down to fit your artwork or just take certain areas of a texture that you’re interested in.
This is a set of color grunge textures of 566 x 400 pixel size.
This set has random large textures, one layout base texture in it’s different stages, and some large patterns.
This set contains 4 large candy and scrap texture.
A beautiful set of spiral book-style 4 textures in 1024 x 768 pixel size.
A nice and beautiful set 10 high-res (2000 px) photos of homemade paper textures.
A beautiful set of 5 rust textures with a size of 499×402 pixel size.
A nice set of 10 dirty textures of1024 x 768 pixel size.
A fabric style 3 large scanned textures.
A colorful set of 4 textures in 2000 x 3000 pixel size with 300 dpi image.
A nice set of 7 extra large grunge textures.
A set of 9 large cloud textures.
A beautiful collection of 5 colorful textures in 700 x 500 pixel size.
A set of 8 older paper textures.
A set of 5 large painted textures.
A beautifully designed 10 big textures of notebook.
An attractive collection of rotten light large textures in 1440 x 900 pixel size.
All the images and textures are copyright of their respected owners and creators. This post is about just to show their creative ideas and inspiration wonders to the world. Please contact us if anyone want to remove their work.
Create RSS Feeds And Publish News Feeds With RapidFeeds
RapidFeeds is a web based service, which aims to provide complete RSS Feed management solutions to publishers and webmasters. As the RSS technology is aggressively spreading across the Internet like wildfire, many publishers are realizing the potential it offers. However, there are still a large number of publishers who are either unaware of RSS or find it too complicated to use. The RapidFeeds is trying to target these web publishers and equip them with all the tools and knowledge they require to adapt and use this potential technology without the hassles of handling the technical aspects involved by themselves.
You can also very easily edit any of your running feeds with a click of a button and make sure they remain updated regularly. It’s all done without you writing a line of code or dabble with any kind of scripts!
If you already have an RSS Feed published… Simply add the URL to your RapidFeeds account and instantly enhance it with advanced features like:
- Pinging to Major Web-Aggregators and Directories.
- Setting Browser-Compatible Styles
- Configuring Items Display Order
- Recording Basic Feed Statistics
SuperSaaS, An Online Scheduling And Reservation System For Your Website
SuperSaaS offers web-based utilities that can be used from any computer connected to the internet without the need to install anything. The first product is Super Schedule, a utility to quickly build a flexible reservation system. What’s special about SuperSaaS is that you do not need to know anything about programming to set these utilities up yourself; you just construct them by picking options from interactive web forms.
You can sign up for an account, the basic version is free. Then build your schedule by simply picking options from a web page and try out the working reservation system, you get a link right away. Put the link on your web site so people can start using it. And you’re done! It is entirely web based, so it runs on any browser and can easily be integrated into your own website.
Save Web Pages Exactly As You See Them In Your Browser With Iterasi
Iterasi, makes it simple for any Web user to save the dynamically generated pages that are increasingly becoming the bulk of today’s Web experience. With iterasi, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, and database driven technologies, like PHP and ASP, can all be saved—in their current state—with the push of a button.
Iterasi provides two different ways to save web pages. Pick the option that allows you to do what you want to do.
No-install Bookmarklet.
Using the browser bookmarklet, you’ll get a feel for how iterasi works. One click captures any publicly accessible web page in its original state, saving it to your archive as functional HTML forever. It’s a great way to save pages on the fly.
Browser extension.
If you need more power? Installing the browser-based software allows you to capture any web page exactly as you see it — even if you had to log in to get to it. This is the perfect solution for saving pages that contain private information like receipts, pages that change as you interact with them, or custom web apps like Google Maps.
Free Web App “Zapproved” Makes Decisions Faster and Easier For Businesses
SmashingApps first noticed Zapproved last September in its list of the “17 Online Free Web Based Applications That You Probably Love to Use!†when it was still in beta. Last month the site officially launched with more features and people in a wide range of companies are already using the system.
Zapproved is the first web-based tool to manage business approvals and decision making. It offers companies a way to instantly improve accountability and transparency in corporate decision-making.
How It Works
Zapproved’s simplicity is the key to its success because it is designed for instant adoption within businesses. To get started, click on the “Create Proposal†button and screen opens that looks similar to an email. Enter the recipients’ email addresses, set a due date and priority, type a message, add an attachment and hit “Sendâ€.
The recipients will each receive an email that is formatted to indicate that their action is required. Within the body of the email, there are embedded HTML buttons for “Approve†or “Deny.â€Â The person selects their option, confirms their decision in a browser and adds any comments and that’s it.
Everyone can see what others have decided and any comments that they may have added. If there is a laggard in the group, it becomes apparent and that person will get reminders to submit a reply.
What Makes Zapproved Better
In today’s companies, almost every decision is being made through emails. This is tremendously inefficient and results in dozens of messages and the discussion is muddled through a chain of replies and cc’s. In the end, it is difficult to determine if and when consensus is achieved and no record of the decision is made.
Zapproved keeps the decision-making “conversation†in a single place, making it easier to track each approval and eliminating the confusing web of inconclusive messages that often results from trying to make decisions solely via email. Zapproved also works securely across firewalls, so it can be used with customers, vendors, or anyone within another company.
Zapproved has been adopted by many businesses as an easy-to-use tool for managing approvals and business processes. Busy executives are finding it useful for handling dozens of in-bound requests as well as administrators and consultants who want to stay on top of numerous tasks when collaborating with colleagues. (See examples of how others are using Zapproved at www.zapproved.com/CaseStudies.)
Zapproved Premium Adds More Benefits
With the official launch, Zapproved added a new premium level service that offers subscribers the ability to add their own corporate logo to proposals as well as extended storage and larger attachment size. The upgraded service will help power users more fully incorporate Zapproved into their daily workflow and help build branding through the system.
To sign up, visit www.zapproved.com.
Make A Promise To Go Green And Get 250 GB Free File Hosting
Going green can have a euphorically contagious effect! Adapting green habits is good for the environment, but who knew it can get us great deals too. Here are some great environmental benefits for every ton of paper that is recycled.
- 7,000 gallons of water is conserved
- 380 gallons of oil is saved
- And we save enough electricity to power an average house for six months.
SmashingApps and Filebanker are teaming up to do their part for the environment. Average American consumes more than 700 pounds of paper per year, highest compared to anywhere else in the world. Hundreds of thousands of trees are cut down per day to support the consumption of paper that can be easily avoided.
SmashingApps believes that we can change that by helping people save and share their documents electronically instead of printing them out each time. We do not want you to print so much so we are offering 250 GB file hosting accounts for free at FileDropper. You can use these accounts to share all your documents without ever having to print anything.
All you have to do to get your free 250 GB file hosting accounts is to make a pledge about going green. When doing your pledge please post a link to this post. You can make a pledge in any of the following ways…
Post it on Twitter, post it on your blog, or post a video of it on YouTube, or create a picture and post it on Flickr. You can make your promise anyway you like as long as we can verify it and don’t forget to follow us on twitter.
Once you have made the pledge post the link to your promise in the comments below and sign up for your free file hosting account using this form you will need to enter “smashingapps” in the special code field. The last date to create your free account will be Friday, January 30, 2009.
Here are some sample promises you can post on twitter
* I promise to send documents online rather than printing them. Do you?
* I promise to buy recycled paper if printing is really necessary. Do you?
* I promise to avoid miss-printing and if happens I will keep that pages for rough drafts, Do you?
* I promise to start using double sided printing. Do you?
My Promise
I promise to buy recycled paper if printing is really necessary. Do you? https://twitter.com/SmashingApps/status/1135693722
Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.
If you have any product/service that you want to unlimited giveaway at SmashingApps, we welcome you. You can contact us.
