Archive for January, 2009
Search User Generated Content Such As Blog, Comments, Bookmarks, etc With Social Mention
Social Mention is a social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and microblogging services.
It allows you to easily track what people are saying about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the web’s social media landscape in real-time. Search results are aggregated from numerous popular social media sources, including Google blog search, Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed, Flickr, Digg, YouTube etc. and remixed as a single stream of information. The data is fresh, which means you can track conversations as they are happening in real-time.
Transform Your Photos Into Tilt-Shift Miniatures With TiltShiftMaker
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.
Photos that capture a details of an overall scene usually work better than those of a single subject. To use a photo from Flickr, go to the photo page, and click on the “All sizes” button. You can then copy one of the download links and use that in TiltShiftMaker (use “Copy Shortcut” in Internet Explorer or “Copy Link Location” in Firefox).
17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls
Almost every one of you already know about the power of Photoshop and probably have seen lots of different creative graphics tutorials on Photoshop. But this collection is surely spark your mind because these are the tutorials about digital painting. There are too many collection that covered visual effects, patterns, brushes, grunge style, artwork etc. But for this tutorial list, we assure you that you will find this very unusual and inspirational with learning opportunity. This is a wonderful list of 17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls.
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Jim Zubkavich’s digital painting tutorial
Red Assassin Digital Painting Tutorial
Making of Under The Root, My Kingdom
21 Free Apps For Mac OS X That Are Absolutely Useful
This is the post where we are listing out few great free tools for Mac Operating System, this is an exclusive post for our those readers who are the Mac users. But our other readers will also enjoy this post. Don’t forget to bookmark this post for your future reference as it has few most useful and free application that will be helpful for you when you are on your Mac system. This is absolutely a great list of 21 Free Apps For Mac OS X That Are Absolutely Useful.
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15 Free Tools For Mac OS X You Should Bookmark
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19 Most Essential Open Source Applications That You Probably Want To Know
17 Wonderful Free Tools To Make Designers Lives Easier!
17 Online Free Web Based Applications That You Probably Would Love To Use!
17 Online Free Web Based Applications That You Probably Love To Use!
21 Online Free Web Based Applications That You Probably Would Love To Use Every Day!
23 Free And Online Web Based Applications Specially If You Are Designer Or Developer
6 Free Tools To Help You Run Windows Applications On Linux
Name Mangler is a batch file renamer that supports all common renaming tasks: Find and Replace (including support for regular expressions); Number Sequentially; Change Case; Set Extension; Add Prefix/Suffix; Remove/Insert Characters.
Backdrop is a simple utility to fill your screen with a giant blank window. Fill the window with a solid color or a custom image, your choice.
With Service Scrubber, you can restructure the services menu, change service keyboard shortcuts, disable and re-enable services.
iClockr is focused to show you a simple way to track your time.
EverSave is a clever tool which allows you to save all of your documents – if possible – in a specific time interval or by changing the frontmost application.
SyncMate FREE Edition is a perfect solution for information management. It is easy-to-use synchronizer for Mac and Pocket PC, that will help you keep all your documents, text messages, contacts, calendar entries and events and other stuff well organized.
Paparazzi is a small utility for Mac OS X that makes screenshots of webpages. This will help you to temporary access to the WebView for username/password info, so capture of pages behind a required login is now possible.
AppFresh helps you to keep all applications, widgets, preference panes and application plugins installed on your Mac up to date. All from one place, easy to use and fully integrated into Mac OS X.
NetNewsWire has a familiar three-paned interface and can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs.
Pref Setter is an application used to edit plist (Property LIST) files, geared towards viewing / editing Mac OS X’s preference files. Very useful for setting those “hidden” preference settings that aren’t available directly in an application.
Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.
OnyX allows you to verify the Startup Disk and the structure of its System files, run miscellaneous tasks of system maintenance, onfigure some hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, QuickTime, Safari, Mail, iTunes, Login window, Spotlight, and many of Apple’s applications.
Witch lets you access all of your windows by pressing a shortcut and choosing from a clearly arranged list of window titles.
Cyberduck is an open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV and Amazon S3 browser for the Mac. It features an easy to use interface that allows to toggle between bookmarks and the browser outline view.
Syrinx is a fully customizable twitter client designed for Leopard. Syrinx is built from two ideals efficient workflow and customization.
Visual NetTools is a set of network scanning, security, and administrator tools for Apple Mac useful in diagnosing networks and monitoring your computer’s network connections.
Deeper allows you to enable and disable the hidden functions of Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Safari, Login window and many Apple’s applications.
Namely is possibly the fastest way to open applications. And unlike some other launchers, it doesn’t require any learning.
Punakea is a little app trying to help you cope with the day-to-day struggle of managing your files. Designed to complement Spotlight, it allows you to tag your files and bookmarks.
Visualize Your Activities And Manage Your Time More Efficiently With Slife
Slife is a time and activity analytics application for both Mac and Windows that automatically keeps track of where you spend your time on your computer.
Slife observes as you interact with applications, documents, email and web sites and then displays detailed statistics of your computer usage in a set of intuitive and easy to use visualizations.With Slife, you can finally understand where you are spending your time and energy, and focus on what really matters.
Features
- Slife tracks your usage of applications, documents and web pages automatically.
- Slife provides 6 visual interfaces that let you analyze and visualize your computer time and activities like never before.
- Sometimes it might be useful to associate the utilization of applications, documents and pages with tasks.
- Slife lets you specify time goals for your activities.
Easy Photo Editing And Free Photo Effects With Pizap
Pizap is a fun free photo editor that lets people easily create wacky images with their digital pictures. PiZap was created as a tool primarily for social networking users who want to post their images to their favorite social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Orkut, Friendster, Bebo, miGente, Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, Tagged, and many more.
PiZap provides a very easy to use photo editor that lets you add photo effects, custom text or speech bubbles, hundreds of original colorful stickers, a full painting program, and much more. PiZap also has built in tools for sending e-cards, downloading your image, embedding your image in any website, or sharing the link directly to your image.
23 Unforgettable Resources Of 2008 You Couldn’t Live Without
2008 was the wonderful year for the bloggers like me. This year, we have too much competition to come up with more great contents every day on different blogs. This is because we have lots of quality posts done by various blogs. Today, we are covering few of the exclusive posts that covered top of the collection in 2008 for useful resources like inspirations, freebies, tools, tutorials, etc. This collection is specially for designers but not only for designers and I hope everybody of you will enjoy this.
You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of December 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.
The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2008
50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008
The 10 Prettiest Web Designs of 2008
33 Exceptional Logo Re branding In 2008 For Your Inspiration
Looking Back On 2008 With Top Web Designers
30 Best Illustrator Tutorials & Articles of 2008
60 Great Abduzeedo Articles from 2008
5 Inspiring Web Design Conference Speeches you Shouldn’t Have Missed in 2008
The Top 30 Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials of 2008 – Which is the Best?Â
50 Brilliant Design Articles of 2008 in 23 Categories + 40 Reader Submitted Posts
Top 75 Best Design Resources Of 2008
Most beautiful websites of 2008
Awesome Business Card Designs of 2008
25 fantastic design articles from 2008
2008 Most Popular Design posts, Tutorials and Resources
A Look At Some Of The Best iPhone Apps Of 2008
Top 50 Best Looking Blog Designs of 2008
37 Ultimate Resources And Inspirational Pieces For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In December
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 make a list of 37 incredible resources and inspirational pieces for designers. 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 December 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.
Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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How to Digitally Illustrate a Camera with Light Streaks
50 Excellent Digital Photography Photoshop Tutorials
28 Everlasting photoshop tutorials
40 Tutorials for Working with Shapes in Illustrator
25 Tutorials for Advanced Freelance Web Designers
Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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Online portfolios that speak for themselves
24 Stunning and Very Creative Digital Art
Web Design Trends: Call To Action Buttons
15 Incredible WordPress Theme Customizations
22 Most Striking New Year Wallpapers for you Desktop
40+ Inspirational Non-Profit Website Designs
48 Mind-blowing Examples of Photo Manipulation Art
The Beauty Of Street Photography
Sensational List Of 25 The Best Design Worldwide Forums
100 Websites With Outstanding Artistic Design
25 Stylish Website Footer Designs
60 Really Cool and Creative Error 404 PagesÂ
Web Design Trends: Sunbursts and Sun Rays
Javascript and Ajax
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Converting a Design From PSD to HTML
20 Excellent Websites for Learning Ajax
xHTML and CSS
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50 Extremely Useful And Powerful CSS Tools
Valid (X)HTML – Is it important?
20 Ultimate CSS Tutorials That Will Help You Master CSS
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15 Useful Tools for WordPress Bloggers
Eight Useful iPhone Applications For The Web Designers
The Ultimate Collection Of Photoshop Custom Shapes
The Ultimate List of The Best Logo Design Resources
55 Great Websites To Download Free Sound EffectsÂ
Mastering Your WordPress 2.7 Theme & Admin Area: Tips and Tricks
30 Awesome New Photoshop Brushes Designers Would Love to Use
100 Free High-Quality XHTML/CSS Templates
Miscellaneous Articles
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9 Information Design Tips to Make You a Better Web Designer
10 Ways to Cut Down Web Development Time
10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Design
We Wish Everyone Of You Will Have A 2009, A Wonderful Year With More Success, Achievements And Happiness…
Today, all of we are starting 2009. At this moment, We want to wish everyone of you and your families 2009, An another Smashing Happy New Year. We hope this new year will bring more success, achievements and happiness in your life.
On the new year, we also want to say special Thank You to our exclusive readers who given us their love and liked us in 2008 because without your satisfaction we are nothing and we could not reach here. We really respect our advertisers and give them credit who were with us in 2008 to made SmashingApps possible.
We also welcome new visitors, rss subscribers, twitter followers and advertisers who will be with us in 2009.
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